Satanica

Infobox Album |
Name = Satanica
Type = studio
Artist = Behemoth


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Blackened death metal
Length = 43:24
Label = Avantgarde Music
Metal Mind Records
Producer = Adam Darski with Behemoth and M.A.
Reviews =
Last album = "Pandemonic Incantations" (1998)
This album = "Satanica"
(1999)
Next album = "Thelema.6"
(2000)

"Satanica" is the fourth studio album released in 1999 by Polish metal band Behemoth. Music of this release is death metal with influences of black metal music, also commonly known as blackened death metal.

Track listing

# "Decade of Therion" ref|1 - 3:19
# "LAM" - 4:13
# "Ceremony of Shiva" - 3:32
# "Of Sephirotic Transformation and Carnality" - 4:31
# "The Sermon to the Hypocrites" - 5:03
# "Starspawn" - 3:32
# "The Alchemist's Dream" - 5:40
# "Chant for Eschaton 2000" ref|1 - 5:22

Double CD edition

Limited Double CD Edition contains second bonus CD with live tracks from Strasbourg, France, February 26 1999.

# "Diableria (The Great Introduction)" - :44
# "The Thousand Plagues I Witness" - 5:26
# "Satan's Sword (I Have Become)" - 4:48
# "From the Pagan Vastlands" - 3:30
# "Driven by the Five-Winged Star" - 5:34
# "The Entrance to the Spheres of Mars" - 4:41

Personnel

* Adam "Nergal" Darski - guitar, bass, vocals
* Zbigniew Robert "Inferno" Promiński - drums
* Leszek "L-Kaos" Dziegielewski - guitar
* Krzysztof Azarewicz - occultwise association, art of Obeah & Wanga
* Katarzyna Brejwo - grammatical consultation

Release details

Notes

# On some copies, track 1 is entitled as "Decade of ΘΕΡΙΟΝ" (ΘΕΡΙΟΝ is Greek for "Therion"), track 8 is entitled as "Chant for ΕΣΧΑΤΟΝ 2000" (ΕΣΧΑΤΟΝ is Greek for "Eschaton").

External links

* [http://www.behemoth.pl/lyrics_disc/satanica_pl.htm Lyrics at the official website]
* [http://www.metal-archives.com/index.php Encyclopaedia Metallum] bands by letter - B - Behemoth (Pol) - Satanica (retrieved 10-20-07)