Behemoth has announced that their twelfth studio album Opvs Contra Natvram will be released on September 16th through Nuclear Blast. Along with the news, the band released a video for the first single from the album “Ov My Herculean Exile“. You can find that video below.
Nergal, the band’s vocalist/guitarist, offered the following on the track:
“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!”
Opvs Contra Natvram track listing:
01 – “Post-God Nirvana”
02 – “Malaria Vvlgata”
03 – “The Deathless Sun”
04 – “Ov My Herculean Exile”
05 – “Neo-Spartacvs”
06 – “Disinheritance”
07 – “Off To War!”
08 – “Once Upon A Pale Horse”
09 – “Thy Becoming Eternal”
10 – “Versvs Christvs”
