Behemoth announce new album ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’

May 11, 2022 James Weaver

BEHEMOTH have announced a new album!

Titled Opvs Contra Natvram, the upcoming album from the Polish blackened death metal heavyweights is the hotly-anticipated successor to 2018’s I Loved You At Your Darkest, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

The upcoming album was produced by the band, with mixing by studio legend Joe Barresi [NINE INCH NAILS, TOOL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, ALICE IN CHAINS].

Speaking about the upcoming album, band leader Nergal says, “the album title means going against the current. It’s the negative of the values and morals and ethics that I stand against. I’ve seriously been wrestling with destructive tendencies in pop culture – cancel culture, social media, and tools which I feel are very dangerous weapons in the hands of people who are not competent to judge others. That’s something which I find very destructive and disturbing – and extremely limiting coming from an artists’ perspective. This is my middle finger to that. There’s a song on the record called Neo-Spartacvs. Spartacus was one of the most iconic rebels in history who went against the most powerful empire of all time. In the end, it’s me screaming, ‘I Am Spartacus, and so are you!’ I want to spark that flame of rebellion. If something seems wrong then stand up to it!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, BEHEMOTH have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Ov My Herculean Exile here:

Watch the official music video for Ov My Herculean Exile here: