Bethlehem play a dark form of raw metal they appropriately call dark metal. Very black metal influenced but with more focus on sounding dark than hateful. The pace of the music varies from fast and even a few blasts to almost not even moving to create that dark, but not depressing, sound. The vocals are a black metal type scream, getting very high and screechy at parts, sounding more in pain than angry. The music is actually very simple, but effective, not to much complexity in the guitar work, I don't think the guitars are doing more than the one rhythm anywhere in this album, but it does work and the music retains a full sound. The best thing I like about this album is it's originality, it's a unique style of extreme metal, quite different. The lyrics are not in English and this to bad (too bad for me anyway, I can't speak German, I think it's German) because I'm curious to what the vocalist is singing. I like this album, as I mentioned the guitar riffs are not complex but they are good, this CD almost, not quite but almost, reminds me of Burzum, simple but cool music that is raw, dark, and of course evil.
Back To Index