There are two salient lessons I have learned from the livestream event, In Absentia Dei, blackened death giants Behemoth hosted this past weekend: First, if you need to eradicate any and all lingering traces of Jehovah or his ilk from a space, then Behemoth ought to be your first port of call. Of course, this should come as no surprise – their 2014 genre-redefining record, The Satanist, or frontman Nergal’s very public confrontations with the Catholic church in his home country of Poland, or even his on-record formal apostasy from said church in 2012 all add up to a long-running battle royale between the world’s most successful corporation and (arguably) the world’s most successful extreme metal band. The venom with which Behemoth unleash unholy fury on the once-hallowed ground that formed...
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