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eύaggέlion [ı´vændзəlion] - the reward of good tidings, given to the messengers (from eύ, well; άγγελíα, tidings, from άγγελοs, a messenger, angel) Hypostatic Union: Management US: Paul Conroy & Chuck Andrews for Channel Zero – lux Business Manager: Ed Gold for Gold Business Management Inferno – sol Legal representation: Jeff Cohen for Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan Merchandise US: www.jsrdirect.com – ignis Merchandise Europe: www.plastichead.com Concelebrated The Revelation: Booking US: Nick Storch for www.theagencygroup.com Booking Europe: Guenther Beer for www.rockthenation.at Seth – abyssus Booking Eastern Europe: Vadim Khomich for www.theflamingarts.org Schism Congregation: www.behemoth.pl Maciej Malenczuk – vocals on „Lucifer” www.myspace.com/behemoth http://www.facebook.com/pages/BEHEMOTH/7174402871 Tomasz Osiecki – sitar on “Shemhamforash” Guitar service by Inferno, Orion, Seth, Manticore, Hatefrost, http://www.youtube.com/user/Behemothofficial Amplifiers service by Tomasz Wójkowski and Mark-L Arkadiusz Malczewski – backing vocals on “Daimonos” Siegmar – all samples and synths Behemoth is exclusively tattooed by Tat Studio and Blackstar Studio Pawel Hulisz - trumpet Piotr Kowalkowski – trumpet Michal Szczerba – horn Bonus DVD: The Making Ov Evangelion Bogdan Kwiatek – trombone Directed and edited by Kuba Mankowski Lukasz Gruba - tuba Studio footage by Kuba Mankowski and Nergal Interview shot by Michal Brach and Marcin Giorew All music by Nergal Photo session footage shot and edited by Grupa 13 All lyrics by Nergal and Krzysztof Azarewicz Menu design by Xaay Arrangements by Behemoth Samples arranged by Siegmar and Orion Statements by Krzysztof Azarewicz and Nergal Translations by Krzysztof Azarewicz Grammatical consultations with Sharon E. Wennekers and Katarzyna Slawska All songs published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Produced by Nergal and Behemoth Co-produced by Daniel Bergstrand, Slavomir and Woytek Wieslawscy, Colin Richardson Recorded at RG Studios January 2009 e.v.- May 2009 e.v. Engineered by Arkadiusz Malczewski, Janusz Bryt, Kuba Mankowski Assistant engineer: Marcin Malinowski Mixed by Colin Richardson at Musikbox, Miloco Studios, London, May 2009 e.v. Mix engineer: Scott Atkins Assistant engineer: Matt Wiggins Mastered by Ted Jensen in Sterling Studio, New York, May 2009 e.v.

Cover concept by Nergal and Tomasz Danilowicz Cover design and artwork by Tomasz Danilowicz, www.g-r-a-a-l.com Band photography by Maciej Boryna and Grupa13 Costumes designed and made by Kasjopea Michorowska www.rustydusty.net Make up by Behemoth Mask designed by Tomasz Danilowicz Mask made by Gellaturo

Also visit us online at: www.metalblade.com | 3984-14745-2 | C 2009 Metal Blade Records Inc. honour me ! DAIMONOS Chaldean (music and lyrics by Nergal) bow to me, in adoration evangelize prophets ov the boundless joy sanctify the ov indulgence

we worship the sun we worship the moon spreading like rats exalted above the stars ov god

all hail slain and risen god ! all hail !

“Come, blessed Dionysius, various nam’d, bull-fac’d Begot from Thunder, Bacchus fam’d Bassarian God, of universal might Whom swords, and blood, and sacred rage delight”

war be sustained ! my godless phoenix rise ne’er to lifeless shall I submit offering solely the sword not peace mercy and cowardice extinct within

we worship the sun we worship the moon spreading like rats exalted above the stars ov god

all hail slain and risen god ! all hail Dionysus !

lead: Seth lead: Nergal “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.” must never be afraid to go too far, “We Proust Marcel

The word daimon is used herein in the classical or, more precisely, Platonian context and means higher self or genius. It is very easy to see that the percep- tion of certain subjects is the result of indoctrination. In one culture a given concept may be considered sacred, whereas in another it becomes bastardized. Information can be manipulated in order to serve our own purposes, and the history of well-established mainstream is full of such misuses. The concept of demon became evil because it was able to bring one to the realization of Self, which for worshipers of death-god was identical with the original sin. On the surface it is difficult to see a connection between a daimon and Chaldean priests, however Chaldean mythology provides many references to shedu, also known as lammasu, storm-demons represented as winged bulls. They acted not only as protective entities, but also keepers of the gates of dawn or illumina- tion. The Birth of Tragedy by F. Nietzsche was another very important source for these lyrics. The text focuses mainly on exploration of Dionysian aspects of /Dionysus dichotomy: chaos, intoxication, celebration of nature, excess and glorification of the wholeness of existence. To make this message more powerful, we used excerpts from The 44th Orphic Hymn dedicated to Dionysus. SHEMHAMFORASH The Shemhamforasch is an epithet for a 216-letter name of God discovered by medieval kabbalists, who read the consumed by tongues ov fire (music and lyrics by Nergal) letters of three verses of the book of Exodus in a specific order. The name is composed of 72 groups of three letters, burning like Phlegethon and each of these triplets was considered the name of an angel or higher intelligence. According to the magical tra- holy gardens reduced to ash dition, King Solomon evoked 72 demons, confined them in a bronze vessel sealed by magical symbols, and obliged extinguishing light ov hope them to work for him. These demons are catalogued in various magical grimoires, most notably in Lemegeton, which bringing the end ov the days describes their powers, appearance and manner, as well as instructions for controlling them. These demons are the shadows of the 72 angels of Shemhamforasch. Using their names and sigils, we are able to call on various demons for various favours. Regardless of our opinions on subjectivity or objectivity of such a phenom- words ov my gospel scattered enon and despite our interpretative model of their existence, be it ontological (magicko-religious) or epistemological sacrilegious scorn spat in pale creeds (magicko-scientific), certain things do happen. Demons and angels enable us to categorize life experiences and to thin is the line between pure being and pure nothing face them more consciously. Our life and art is not about developing ideologies and different „isms”. It is a battlefield my sole companion of opposite forces, and pangs of childbirth whose name will be Perfection. woe to Thee !

at my command! let the blood ov the infants flood the streets ov Bethelehem !

O ye ov little faith with ethics rotten in a moral cage dead meat thrown down to the worms to feed religious tumor corrupting marrow ov repugnant swirl

at my command! let the blood ov the infants flood the streets ov Bethelehem! at my command ! let the heads ov Samaritans pave my ways !

lead: Nergal lead: Seth

Shemhamforash ! Again, on one level of interpretation, these OV FIRE AND THE VOID TRANSMIGRATING BEYOND lyrics deal with the concept of a dead soul (music and lyrics by Nergal) REALMS OV AMENTI and its inevitable fate. This term was coined I the Sun ov man (music by Nergal; lyrics by Krzysztof Azarewicz) by Aleister Crowley and denotes beings who live like automatons, consumed Max Stirner Max the offspring ov the stellar race by their desires and mammalian imprints. my halo fallen and crushed upon the earth there is a flame untamed deep in my heart Amenti or Duat in Egyptian mythology de- that I may bring balance to this world noted the Underworld, the abode of souls unyielding, pure Ain Soph after death. Like the sun-god Ra, we de- I son ov perdition ‘tis measureless scent into our own hells to face all aspects from sheer nothingness transgressed our right divine: of life, to revitalize ourselves and to steal unto the highest self – to utmost freedom fire not only from heaven but also from the to explore the starry nature ov my rage aspire to all horizons cauldrons of the deepest pits. There is no to seek nature ov things god but man. There is no devil I pulse ov existence retreat within yourself but god. Verses of this song to find the primal breath conceal the keys which the law ov nature undenied can guide us beyond I hold the torch ov Heraclites slaves ov the dead gods the state of worm-like so I can shake the earth and move the suns life, to transmigrate martyrs ov the falsehood beyond the reality I divine iconoclast your life is death now of dead souls. injecting chaos into my veins engulfed by the wake ov a million years with life accepted welcome to Amenti with pain resurrected is the embrace ov god in man profound to perceive means to know to possess means to deny the joy ov a dawn in the catacombs ov life the ecstasy ov dusk concealed within deaths vaults nourished have I this karmic flow pure vibration lies where great above meets great below nitya-samsarins let it be written ! travel to the house ov empty words let it be done ! Am-Heh! devour their hearts ! scattered I walk towards the fractured light slaves ov the dead gods lead: Seth martyrs ov the falsehood your life is death now Whilst listening to the first demo versions of this track I had an over- engulfed by the wake ov a million years whelming impression that every single tone is filled with the omni- welcome to Amenti present spirit of Dionysus, the god of ecstatic chaos and source of pure joy, reaching far beyond false boundaries between good lead: Nergal and evil, life and death, love and hate. Dionysian rave focuses lead: Seth entirely on Here and Now, experiential knowledge, intuition and passion. All of these are essential factors or components of any Jerusalem is falling ! form of art. A world governed by such virtues cannot be corrupted or repressed by order, which every culture or tries to falling ! falling ! enforce. Its nature is much more primordial and pure. The same is Jerusalem is falling ! true about creative chaos; it goes beyond any kind of intellectual Yerushalaim nehereset ! analysis or speculation. It becomes a released energy, a realised potential, and it is never inert. Let us rejoice for we are as streams of lava erupting under our oceanic and cosmic Will. “The divine is God’s concern; the human, man’s. My concern is neither the divine nor human, concern; the human, man’s. “The divine is God’s etc., but solely what is mine, and it not a general one, not the true, good, just, free, to me than myself!” but is - unique, as I am unique. Nothing more of her whoredom.” for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and lo! mingled it cup “Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, that rideth upon the Beast, inflict the seed ov Eve upon me from the top ov the highest mountain the heritage ov Cain can’t be undone prior to descent, my fall for Thee ‘tis my rejection ! ‘tis my denial ! my weapon is silence that stirs with repulsive mortifications I, bringer ov light to burn this goddamn Eden down ! they attempted to deprive me from my odium ov chaos behold! I rise from primal silence they threw my wretched body as a storm crushing dismal shores ov Acheron into rivers ov purgatory my weapon is violence for such is a consequence from the mud ov the earth back to the womb ov Babalon ! ov my angelic nature abortion ov god in my leprous womb sink in the stream ov woe soiled with the miasma ov the bleakest hemisphere Acheron! the formless fires ov Amenti unfold THE SEED OV I rise above the eyes ov god not nearly as frenzy as discordia that breeds within (music by Nergal; Necromanteion! not nearly as frenzy as disorder that I bring lyrics by Nergal and Krzysztof Azarewicz) I am the universe is drained I am the grace ov god so is my heart… I am the stream ov woe …this earth grew weary and dull I am wrath from above is it the ov my rigid existence? is there a future for me beyond the stars? lead: Nergal lead: Seth I drink to desolation HE WHO BREEDS I drink to your demise from Neptunian realm arisen monarch ov neglected kingdom PESTILENCE (music and lyrics by Nergal) Babylon the great I praised oh great despiser ov life with the voice ov silence I called the genii ov the heights and depths et credo in serpentem He who breeds pestilence is a reflection misterium mysteriorum of limitless freedom and the autonomy of I came down as raging Mars every man. This ethos can be attained only in nomen eius Baphomet as volcanic fire god by denying existence of the higher being hearken! my Ophities commonly called God. I was inspired by the totality and I are one consume the flesh and drink the blood words of Jean-Paul Sartre: if there is to be in the absence ov light obtain communion with utmost disgrace an autonomous free man, then God must infinite I shall become reject the benefits ov eucharist die. This brings us to the following conclusion: sink in the stream ov woe there is no good a priori since there is no God disdain the lie! Acheron ! let you senses sharpen who could create it. The only one who exists is a man creating a horizon of his values, demarcat- rise above the eyes ov god let your eyes see in the boundless dark Necromanteion ! resist not radiant light ing all boundaries. He is the sole source of his be like comets slashing thru the vast skies morality. Contemplating the idea of freedom, be like ravening wolves I was repeatedly confronted with omnipresent and omnipotent feelings of loneliness and emp- The seed ov I is the true essence of every star. It is not the ego but rather the Self. It is rooted deep in the fertile soil which for a disabled Naza- unchaining hearts tiness. Surprisingly, that vast abyss was never rene was considered dead matter. Roots of the seed reach depths of the Underworld, and those of us who want to achieve heights must also now drink to desolation frightening, but infinitely fascinating. I was joy- explore depths. One of the portals leading to the Underworld, to the realm of subconscious stratum, is Necromanteion - an temple Aleister Crowley drink to god’s demise ously able to exchange all those transcen- of necromancy devoted to and Persephone. The word Nekromanteion means “the Oracle of Death”. Today’s world seems to be nothing monarch ov neglected kingdom dental or ontological conditions into more than the realm of the dead. Weak and vile creep into the dirt from which they sprang. The stream of Acheron takes them down to oh great despiser ov life never-satisfying states of anxiety and their final destination and their bell strikes for the last time. The only way out is to perfect ourselves through the alkhemical process of transforma- hunger. These emotions very often tion, to enter the realm of the dead, take the prima materia, and metamorphose it into pure philosophical gold. We descend through a chthonic o leo et o serpens bring pain but, on the other series of meandric corridors of life making offerings to the gods as we pass through the gates of initiation into mysteries of existence. The nobility qui perditor perdes hand, inspire and motivate of our acts, courage of our hearts and strength of our bodies are the practical keys for this Great Opus. Parts two and three of these lyrics were sis valens nobiscum me on my path. inspired by the Orphic Hymns translated by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) and should be considered as incantations of our highest aspirations. Bring them here and kill them in front of me” “Those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them- “Let them hate me, so that they will but fear me.” ALAS, LORD IS UPON ME (music and lyrics by Nergal)

behold! as Rome burns so do I… Caligula ‘tis not the last empire to crumble I bore witness to rise and fall ov tribes ov Adonai and fallen short ov a glory ov god

lord ov hosts whore ov salvation tear the skies as you spread your legs vomit forth upon my head all afflictions and abominations known to man

Tyranny preys on fear. Most human beings are slaves of abhorrence, anxiety, cowardice and despair. The communion they partake in is abomination and the name of their sacra- ment is a stupor which ends in a final sleep of the soul. The bounds are so painful and the chains are so strong that they prefer to hum- Jesus, (Luke 19:27) bly kneel before the reality with eyes fixed on the cold floor of churches, town halls and banks. If any of them think we are here to reb- el for the sake of rebellion, they are mistaken. Our goal is to bring fire from heaven and hell in order to purify the corrupted state of be- ing. We fear nothing. Our aim is to transgress the barriers of slavery, to rise and awake, to transform fear into philosophical awe of the universe, which heavily falls on our fragile bodies and crushes our souls with the totality of experience.

background lead: Seth background lead: Nergal DEFILING MORALITY OV BLACK GOD BLACK OV MORALITY DEFILING and Nergal) Azarewicz Krzysztof lyrics by Nergal; (music by kiss grant me profane all ov mother oh Isis thy lips like morphine heart slumbering teasing my release me! to small is way this cosmos ! evangelize on earth, come down muse ravishing spirit abduct my will my and bury beyond in spacious reach thought can never human that alight upon the earth life! engines ov my and consecrate might ov triumph and so I chant that conscience trampling kingdoms ov wrath ov I, the archangel sword the unholy with one word, god ov image every I overmastered I come in splendor and golden glory trophies seeking war spoils and sacred mine ov to purify this heart rood rotten to cast away the blind god ov defile morality god black ov defiling morality These These lyrics weapons – fire and are force divine forth powerful calling enchantments limitations, of world the leave to us enabling invoke They behind. restrictions and tyranny of ancient Khem archetypes mighty and its sidereal legacy. Tyranny and sin are the weapons of Black Brothers, slaves of - rot ten rood and servants of the biggest sect in the world. If they want kingdom on the – Earth so mote it be! Our kingdom is that the stars! of

“I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them—they serve me.” Austin Osman Spare