The Satanist
by Behemoth

The Satanist by Behemoth
Year: 2014
Release date: 2014-02-03
Overall rank: 3,959th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 92 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2014 (64th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (684th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,959th)

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The Satanist is ranked as the best album by Behemoth.

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Overall rank: 3,959th | 2010s rank: 684th | 2014 rank: 64th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 92 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.8.

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85/100
The Satanist is in a league of it's blackened death metal own. Very dark, very powerful, very Behemoth. Conceptually, it will not go down as my favorite album. Knowing that Nergal plays the part almost to a T (is he really a "satanist"? I suspect, yes, and I won't debate that with others), it doesn't feel autobiographical, but perhaps it is. This album is riff heavy, filled with evil sounding guitar solos and pounding bass. Play O Father O Satan O Sun at the bar some night on the Touch Tunes. It's wild.
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70/100
The Satanist has the consistent instrumentals you would expect from black/death metal album. In particular, the guitar interludes add a lot of flavor to the album. Lyrically, I would have liked more variety with every track basically melting down to "Hail Satan".
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80/100
Fan-fucking-tastic album by Behemoth. Bringing back black metal from their roots into a brilliant, catchy mashup of their recent death metal. Their best release thus far and by far.
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a lot of dread
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90/100
Another stellar release by the great Behemoth.
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