I have always thought Behemoth is and was a poor death metal band that calls itself black metal, even now more than ever because of the current releases which shame black metal so much it makes you want to kill and mame! This album however, calms me. Everything has this distant feeling right from the haunting start, there is good use of acoustic on first track, really adds to the music. As the title suggests, this is a demo that is From The Pagan Vastlands!Behemoth really does some good original music on this album. None of the music on here has any influence or characteristics of being death metal, it was, believe it or not... Pure black metal of the darkest and also bleakest sort conjured up by a Polish band besides the great and well known Graveland! Not only was the music original and full of suprise, the production was good too which is very hard to believe when you first look at the cd, it has this ancient look to it that just calls to you. Id just like to say, thank you Behemoth for giving the black metal fans a really good album, but id also just like to say, what happened? Nergal had a good thing going with this demo and the first Behemoth full lengths, so why did he change paths???
