Album Review: Me And That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol 1
The original plan for Me And That Man was for something simple, low key – something into which Behemoth frontman Nergal could put his energy away from the Polish terrors. Their debut album, 2017’s Songs Of Love And Death, played up to his love of artists like Nick Cave and Johnny Cash, men who commune with the darkness of the soul via smoky gothic blues and rough country, rather than blastbeats. Even the name implied a far simpler setup than we’ve become used to from Behemoth; just a pair of blokes – Nergal and expat-Brit-living-in-Poland guitarist John Porter – getting together for something loose, informal and off-the-cuff. It wasn’t meant to become too much of a thing. However, as with most of what the man born Adam Darski puts his mind to – and even after a split with John – the projec...
