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Beherit were a black metal band from Finland. The band's name was taken from the Syriac word for Satan. They released two full-length albums and many demos of raw and minimalistic black metal, before disbanding soon after the experimental 1993 album Drawing Down the Moon, which is now considered a classic of the genre. The band's mainman, Marko Laiho aka. Nuclear Holocausto, still released two more albums under the name Beherit. These albums can mostly be described as dark ambient. Although they were completely electronic, the albums carried the atmosphere of the band's black metal recordings. Image File history File links Beherit_logo. ... Image File history File links Beherit_band. ... City scenery of Rovaniemi in January 2004 Rovaniemi (RoavenjÃ¡rga in Northern Sami) is the administrative capital and the centre of commerce of Finlands northernmost Province, Lapland. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Black metal is a sub-genre of extreme metal, which started in the early 1980s with bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, and Celtic Frost. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Spinefarm Records is a Helsinki, Finland based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. ... Black metal is a sub-genre of extreme metal, which started in the early 1980s with bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, and Celtic Frost. ... Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ... Gustave DorÃ©s depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan (Standard Hebrew: , Satan Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: , SatanÃ¡s; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , ) is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied to an angel, demon, or minor god in many belief systems. ... Black metal is a sub-genre of extreme metal, which started in the early 1980s with bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, and Celtic Frost. ... Drawing Down the Moon: Also called Calling Down the Moon and Singing Down the Moon. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ...

Beherit's first full-length, The Oath of Black Blood, was released in 1991. The album is traditional, fast and brutal old school black metal, heavily influenced by death metal, thrash metal and grindcore. However, it is not a separately recorded studio album. The band got some funding for recording an album from their record label, Turbo Music, but supposedly spent the money on alcohol. The label then released their demo Demonomancy and 7" EP Dawn of Satan's Millennium as a compilation, without the band's permission, and named it The Oath of Black Blood, which was originally supposed to be the name of the new album. The album is now generally accepted as a full-length and Spinefarm Records later re-issued it in 2005. Old school, variously spelled old skool, oldschool or oldskool, is a slang term referring to an older school of thinking or acting, and to old objects in general, within the context of newer, more modern times. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... It has been suggested that Bay Area thrash metal be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Spinefarm Records is a Helsinki, Finland based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. ...

Beherit's best-known and most influential album, Drawing Down the Moon, was their first official LP and was released in 1993. The album was highly experimental within the black metal scene, as the band used whispers and space-like electronic sounds to strengthen its hypnotic atmosphere. Drawing Down the Moon was to remain the band's last black metal release, as they split up the next year. Laiho still recorded two albums of dark ambient music, H418ov21.C and Electric Doom Synthesis, and released them under the band's name. As the band didn't reform and Laiho had eventually lost interest in black metal, he went on to continue his musical career in dark ambient as "Suuri Shamaani" and in hardcore techno as "DJ Gamma". Drawing down the Moon (1993) was an album by the Finnish black metal band Beherit. ... Electric Doom Synthesis was Beherits second dark ambient and final full length album. ... Hardcore techno, often referred to as hardcore (not to be confused with hardcore emo or punk, which is sometimes in the USA just called hardcore), is a style of techno music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including Rotterdam, New York City and Newcastle, New...

Despite their popularity now, Beherit was once hated among many black metal enthusiasts, especially in Norway. There was even a Norwegian band called "Fuck Beherit". The band released two rehearsal tapes; 10-track "Do Beherit" and 3-track "Total Shit". There are different theories for the reasons of Beherit's unpopularity in the early 1990s, but the most common is the differencies between the Norwegian and Finnish scenes. Laiho commented on this in an interview for a magazine in 1994 [1]: Now there are more people against us ‘cause of these new rules and all these stupid rumours spreaded by our Norwegian enemies... but I don’t care so much. But that’s a bit sad that the black metal underground scene is totally split. See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...

Despite popular belief, Marko Laiho is not the older brother of Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom (he has no older brother at all). Alexi Laiho Alexi Wildchild Laiho is the lead guitarist of the bands Children of Bodom, KylÃ¤hullut and Sinergy. ... Children of Bodom is a metal band from Espoo, Finland. ...

Some of the members were musicians in Black Crucifixion during the first years of the 90's. Black Crucifixion was not a side project of Beherit, just shared some personnel. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy one of the guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia on one of the following topics: If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability, citing reliable sources. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy one of the guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia on one of the following topics: If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability, citing reliable sources. ...

Band members

Former members

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Discography

Albums

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EPs

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Splits

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Demos

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Compilations

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External links

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