'After Melbourne, we flew to Perth and raised hell at Dyson's (our tour manager's house). For some reason, it was my personal highlight of this tour, 'coz it just felt so right and so refreshing to see there is a new generation of BEHEMOTH legions growing. Imagine 15-, 16-year-old kids chanting along lyrics of 'Slaves Shall Serve', 'Christians to the Lions' or even older songs like 'From the Pagan Vastlands'. 'Next day we played this under-18 show in a small bar and…I have never witnessed anything like that in my life.

In comparison to other crowds, Melbourne was maybe a bit less into moshing, but still these fuckers were screaming their lungs out and throwing horns in the air all the time!

'The show seriously kicked my ass, I can tell you! The heat on stage was unbearable but we got such a strong kick from the crowd… unbelievable. I remember almost passing out at the soundcheck so I took off to the hotel for a few-hour nap. 'When we got to Melbourne, jetlag got really bad, 'coz after Adelaide show we slept maybe two hours. The temperature was around 35 degrees Celsius and was killing us but it was already a perfect start of the tour. Organized by Aussie company Soundworks, this tour wraped up the 16-month touring cycle with 225 shows done in support of BEHEMOTH's last record, 'Demigod'.Ĭommented mainman Nergal: 'This tour was simply unreal! From day one we felt surprisingly comfortable… (I guess it has something to do with Dave and THE AMENTA getting me drunk so bad the first night, ha ha). Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH have just returned home from their first-ever trip to Australia.

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