1.Yeah, partly you’re absolutely right about the „promotional compaign” of our latest opus. You see, the deal with SOLISTITIUM REC. was a real chance for us back in ’95 when we were about to record our second album. We were completely fed up with PAGAN REC. and the italian label than released our mini album and we decided to do something with some more responsible people and to be honest, I have to say that when we did this deal Carsten seemed to be very honest and reliable person. The things went pretty o.k., he released our second album „GROM” and sent us on tour which was the first live experience for us...I think this period was very important for our development and establishing in this scene. We’ve gained so much back than, we’ve sold much more records than we had sold before, necessary to add without any promotion. But well, we were debutants on western market and so was SOLISTITIUM, therefore I had no problems with that. But when he wanted to pre-long the deal we demanded more, it’s so natural. Carsten promised us to arrange bigger promotion with an exclusive advertisments in proffessional press...in fact we almost got none...some shitty split commercials in zines. Hm, the only positive point was the studio budget so we could record the best album so far, we were very comfortable and relaxed in the studio and this special situation obviously affacted the final result. We did the films for the lay-out in Poland and it looks really proffessional...so, in a result we have a new album out, an album which in our opinion stands far above the avaragism of today’s black/death metal scene. An album which could rival with the top releases from the genre but all of these seem to be nothing ‘coz there’ve been NO PROMOTION. We went on tour with ANCIENT one month after album’s release but still there were many people conscious we had a new release out, you know. It was so annoying...and every time I spoke to him he assured me that something is gonna change in that matter but as you can see no changes occured. Hell, I got really infuriated than, but in responce for our demands and questions we got a blackmail reconse from SOLISTITIUM. He told me that he’s not gonna do anything more than it was already done, if we don’t sign for one more album...I must admit I haven’t expected such a behaviour from Carsten’s side as he always seemed to be quite honest. But, the problem lays at his side only ‘coz we are far too professional band for such a crapy label! Becouse how would you explain such a behaviour...at the moment he prioritates Forbidden side the most, it’s quite silly and irresposible I would say becouse all in all we are the best selling band in this label, right? Huh, you must know that I feel really sorry that I have to say all these things but that’s the only way we can face the problem. I don’t want people think we have a war with a label or something like that...wars are for little kids. We just try to fight unprofessionalism, fight for our rights... because the most annaying thing in the whole situation is an ignorance... You know, BEHEMOTH have existed on this scene for so many years, we formed the band in the begining of this decade so, I guess after dealing with so many assholes and moneysuckers we finally demand for something more and what we get? Again we have to face the same problem... But there is new deal appraching with a really trustworthy label and we deeply hope things are gonna change quite drastically pretty soon...Beware! We’re rule this world in near future!
But back to SOLISTITIUM matter...if the guy doesn’t change his relation to bands and doesn’t chose right priorities he will end up like all thouse shit worthy small underground labels that surround us and fill this market ans scene with crap bands and truely gruesome albums...Please, don’t get me wrong, it’s against SOLISTITIUM, it’s against stupidity and unprofessionalism! This is my final word in this case...

2.Actually you’re right...but let me explain the topick in a wider chorizon. You see, peaople are aware of the fact that BEHEMOTH is an established, professional band with three albums released, with sort of tradition, with its own group of listeners etc. etc. That’s pretty comfortable situation for any label interested in extreme music, and I understand this very well. Unfortunatelly for SOLISTITIUM REC., they have already lost the chanse to grow bigger with our help, I’m not gonna act like a horse, without gaining a deserved profits out of this. Therefore BEHEMOTH is keen on professional, more than underground labels thesedays and this should be obvious noticing the fact we’ve been wandering in this scene for so many years and not improving that intensively as we would like to. I don’t say that NUCLEAR BLAST offered us a deal...the fact is that my close friend who works in their office really enjoys our last work and she passed this CD to the chief of the company and he shown quite abig interest in us, he was very impressed by this opus, it’s lay-out, great sound and song arrangements...well, there have been so much said about NUCLEAR BLAST but I don’t give a fuck about problems people have with this company. It’s not my business...I just want to say that we still have a great potential and such reaction means one thing, WE ARE enough professional band to attract even the biggest labels from the genre. But of course this doesn’t mean we’re gonna sign them or something...that’s true we’ve considering it but finally we decided to concentrate our potential in a bit smaller label but a label which proudly stands for their bands and they’ve already gained almost „cult” status by releasing MAYHEM „Live in Leipzig” LPCD. Of course I mean AVANTGARDE MUSIC from Italy...
A few months ago we got an offer from them and till today we’ve been negotiating a deal for two albums and I believe we’ll finally sign it in september if everythings goes in our way. And again I agree with you my firend, than such a label can do much more for us...why? that’s pretty simple, they’ve already qiut a contract with KATATONIA which means that BEHEMOTH will stay the highest priority there, they’re gonna focus on our future albums and I sreongly believe both sides will be more than satisfied. They’ve so far done quite a lot I would say...at the moment we’re negotioting a tour conditions for the first months of the upcoming year, we’ll get an exclusive whole page advertismens in professional press, we’ll be interviewed etc. etc. Not to mention that AVANTGARDE is kind of elitarian label as they never sign bands they don’s like personally, they never try to sign as many bands it’s possible with loosing quality of the relases at the same time. I really like their way of acting and all those argumentations make me feel very optimistic as for the future of the band. On such basis we can reach a lot, believe me girl, I feel so much potential inside and this new deal mean a new beginning for us! About other offers..yeah, there were a few, the most interesting ones came from AVANTGARDE of course, but also from dutch HAMMERHEART which is a great company as well. They do a lot for their bands but the thing I don’t like is so big quantity of avarage bands on their label.
QUALITY not QUANTITY counts!

3.Hm, you see, the problem has always been and I’m. not sure it’ll stop, although I’m satisfied from the current line- up which cosists of three members now, me, the leader, spokesman and the main composer in the band, MEFISTO, new bass player who has replaced LES, and INFERNO on drums. Well, the point with all those line up changes is that there have always been strong personalities within the band, and we had to work with each other...I guess in a short relation it works out but in a longer prisma things start to complicate a bit. That’s because we have so diffrent views uopn the future of the band, music etc. etc. Than it’s hard to force your idea upon such a person because he feels very comfortable in the band. At the moment these boundaries are much clearier ‘coz it’s been shortly said: I am the leader and I am the one who have the last word in each matter that has anything to do with the band. If other members accept such a situation, and so far MEFISTO and INFERNO do, there are hardly any problems apear. The problem will start when they change their mind in that case what I hope won’t happen that soon, he, he, he....Anyway, the new line-up seems to be the ultimate one, and I can proudle annouse that it’s the best one, the most comfortable and most effective we’ve had so far. Eventhough we differ quite much from each other, the most important fact doesn’t change, BEHEMOTH is the biggest priority in out lifes and we know our places and roles in the band and I believe that as long everybody will does his best and develope...this hellish machine will conquers across the Universe endlessly!

4.Yes. We’ve done almost everything before I left for the vacation...the only thing that was partly not finished were the translations of some of the lyrics. But 95% of the music were completely finnished and ready to work on in the studio.
Hm, you see, with my last year vacation it was a bit complex situation I dealt with at that time. After we came back from the german „FEASTING THE BEAST TOUR” with DESASTER and SVARSTYN lotsa personal problems occured afterwords...most of the shit was connected with a girl I used to be with, but it was just a part of the whole hell I had to go through back than. I must say that at that time I had a really bizzare period of time, I was pretty depressed and lost, so many things changed very drastically and it’s not a secret it was connected with my spiritual and intelectual dvelopment. I simply startded to see things in a different way than I used to before. So many matters became useless and lost its values from the past...it’s difficult to explain as it was something that I had to face deep within my inner self, it was mine and only problem therefore it caused so strong and intense breakdown. Not to mention that LES has left the band right before I left to Scandinavia...hah, just try to imagine all the shit I had to face at that time but I guess each active human have such a period in his life, not even one but more times I guess. Succesfully I found the replacement quite fast so I could leave Poland with no line-up problems. So, this story says for itself...I needed one month of relax so I decided to visit some of my scandinavian friends. I visited guys from LUCIFERION, DIMMU BORGIR, GORGOROTH,
HADES, AETERNUS and many more...you know they are very specific kind of people. Quite calmed down, stoical...those people and the evirement (mighty        Bergen’s mountains, fjords, lakes, woods and sea...) was like a spiritual healing for me and believe me, I started to think and feel much better, it helped me so much. Hm, as you can see, I went there in search  for promised tranquillty and peace but in result I also found a lot of marvelous inspiration and motivation to further moves in life and with BEHEMOTH...I hope you know exactly what I mean.

5.Actually I know nothing about any problems with DAMNATION, but if they spread shit behind my back please tell me, he, he...in fact we are still good friends with LES and we meet quite often, from time to time we play with both bands on ocasional festivals etc. The only problem that occured, was the change of line-up before we recorded „PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS”. He decided to concentrate himself on DAMNATION only and I respected his decision, eventhough I was very surpriced and confused...he declared that he would like to record bass lines he did with us but I didn’t agree. It would have meant that he would get the profits out from the sold copies of the album and for us it was useless. So I found MEFISTO to change LES and it turned out to be a right choice. You see,...there were some minor problems in the past...LES is rather old guy with a family, kids and obligations concerning that fact. He was not able to dedicate himself to the band as much I wanted him to do. I always demand from band members to focus on band the most...the rest of the things in their lifes are of course less important. Only such a treatment provides a succes and good results.

6.It’s a shame but what you’ve said is partly true...It’s true that Poland has been opressed by the commuistic system for so many years and that we’ve had many economical troubles, which appear even thesdays by the way, but we are not an examption in that matter. But if you try to be objective you will notice that Poland belongs to those countries from this old commusitc block which developed the most. Well, yeah, we don’t have so glorious past, I mean last few decades especially...that’s true that Poland are often labeled as theifs etc. but what can I do about it...I don’t wanna hide the truth from its reveal. But I can assure you than theesedays Poland stands as one of the most succesful countries and we improve very fast learning on our own faults from the past. It’s pity that majority of people don’t know about the glorious historical past of my homecountry. Believe me, Poland wrote so many pages in european history, especially in ages from XII to XVII we fuckin’ kicked some serious ass and that what make me feel pround about Poland. But I don’t wanna start any historical matters ‘coz I’m pretty sure there are too many details and stuff I’d like to reveal and show off.
But let’s back to reality...We’ve never experienced any idiotic behaviour from the pwople on tour etc. I mean, BEHEMOTH, similar like VADER, has gained a good reputation in Europe not as a polish band but as a quality and honest band. That’s what counts the most for me...Yeah, probably if we were born in Scandinavia we would have reached much higher dimentions I believe but I don’t give a fuck about it anymore. I’m pround of who I am and I love my land...that’s pretty obvious but I would like to point it expressively, it doesn’t matter where you come from, as long you have respect to yourself and other people, as long you act with your natural instoncs and do your best in each fuckin’ way of life.
As I said before...BEHEMOTH seems to be more european band, exactly like VADER, but let’s interprete it like this, the fact we come from a country that doesn’t belong to EU we have much harder work to do, and I take it as a challange and I love challanges! This is maybe something that makes our band even more valuable in the eyes of other people because to reach what we’ve reached sp far we had to do twice more than other bands...but don’t think I depressed because of that, it only leads me to greater satisfaction from our results, I believe we truely deserve a lot and with each next record we try to push things further, hard and bring our band and this genre of extreme music to yet unkown heights...heights we don’t know yet but we’re gonna reveal in the nearest future, I can promise you!

7.Well, there so many great things from the tours to tell...but believe me girl, there far to many to mention them all. But maybe I’ll start with a statement that we deeply enjoy playing live and we’ve gained a lot experience throughout last years. We did three tours so far played on some exclusive festivals abroud...
The first tour was „PAGAN TRIUMPH TOUR’96” we did together with HELHEIM and CHRIST AGONY. And this one was really siccesful I would say.
Most of the things were arranged in the right way and that what we demanded from the organizer...some months later we did one tour more but with a local promotor from Berlin, Folter rec. In fact it was the worst tour when it comes to organisation but I don’t doubt that people from Folter had good intentions. They fuck up the promotion and this caused really bad frequency on the shows...but all in all I must say I’m still satisfied from this one as well. I would also like to thank Folter rec. and especially one special girl, Andrew from Berlin, who did her best the shows to turn out in the proper way...next you’ll successed, but we have to learn on our own mistakes. But the thing that has to be mention is the great company we had on „FEASTING THE BEAST TOUR”, I mean SVARSTYN and especially DISTASTER guys. They are an excellent live band and personally extremely nice and symphathic guys...I will never forget all those nights full of alcohol and METAL!!! I’d also like to say HELLO to them right now....
Hm, this tour was full of great moments...I remember that the last performence we did, we mixed our line-up’s and set up a new band or something, ha, ha...I was playing drums, Kolgrim from SVARTSYN was playing bass, Infernal and Ocullta did the rest of the instruments and we did „COUNTESS BATHORY” from mighty VENOM. I also remember that there were some shows with a really very few people in the audience so we were changing our set permanently and played songs for „PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS” but they were not scheduled in our live set, ha, ha...I didn’t even sing because I had no lyrics back than...you know, it was very friendly atmosphere, we complenty had no stagefraight, no stress, nothing...in a way it was a great experience.
Recently we did our third tour and we were co-headlining ANCIENT...there was also one more band from Austria, BELPHEGOR. Well, both bands were really o.k., we didn’t have any problems with the guys...I would even say that ANCIENT guys were more than friendly and so we were. Maybe I’m not the biggest fan of their music but one thing is sure, they are very nice people.
The third tour was the one we promoted „PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS” and it was also the longest and the widest one. For the first time we invaded such coutries like Slovenia, Italy, Austria, France or Switzerland...all of them were good but I would especially mention Paris. To be honest I’ve never seen wilder audience, they went fuckin’ crazy when we played, it was unbelivable, really.
Cool nites in Hellraiser, Essen (even if there were only 100 people, because the local promotor annaunced our show two days later, damned! I’m still very sorry if there were people who wanted to see us but we didn’t play!), surpriceingly all the shows in Holland were good, with good frequency and right reaction from the crowd...it was something I didn’t expected from its most stagnated audience!
Not to forget great responce in Waregem in Belgium, those people know what a real metal party means...You know, this tour was really o.k. Some shows were great, some crap and some avarage, that’s the way it is...

8.That’s correct...the atmosphere was totally fucked up but I wouldn’t say it was BEHEMOTH’s fault...or, it could be our fault if you state that being unprofessional and not serious was the right way of doing things and we hardly accepted this. The problem was also with CHRIST AGONY guys ‘coz noone of them was able to speak fluent english what caused some troubles as well. In opposition to the second and the third tour this one was very stagnated, the atmosphemere was not good ‘coz each band didn’t bother about other’s problems. The crew was split and we hardly got along with each other...but I wouldn’t like you to think we had any major problems or something. I think I’m. pretty easy going guy and have no problems in coping with people but sometimes there is someone who exeptionally gets on my nerves, you can imagine how it is?
I don’t really know anything about this blood...well, yeah, we wanted to have it on stage but of course our chief didn’t give a fuck about our needs. But there was no big deal...I remember once we almost cancelled the gig because everything was totally fucked up. I mean, we were supposed to play a show in Trier if I remember well, and when we arrived to this place, we found out that an important cabel is missing and there was no possiblility to use any lights there...Ha, ha, jsut try to imagine metal gig with no lights...it was impossible to do. But we kicked ass of our label chief and he organised strob and some candles just to create sort of atmosphere, you know...

9.As far as I can recall we did the first arrangaments in autumn 1996, but those were only some main schemes, not the whole songs...but the first months of 1997 were very fruitful, as you know along with the tour we were working hard on the new songs. The whole material was finnished before the vacation as I mention somewhere above. When it comes to our way of writing process we almost never put any songs aside...we compse album and we see the whole concept that rather can’t be split in parts or something. And it was the same with „PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS”, I had some potential and I did around nine songs and to be honest at that time, when we finnished them all, I completly ran out of ideas...it’s pretty schematic when we compse an album and record it in the studio. But when the album is recorded I treat this more less like a close chapet and my will is free to create new things...When the album is recorded I start to think about the future album not bothering that much about the past...but I reckon that „PANDEMONIC..” is the most succesful piece we’ve done so far...I draw a conclusion from the long time prisma and I’m still very satisfactory from the final studio result, the saound, arrangements etc.
Hm, the composing process seems rather normal I would say. First of all I have to get some motivation but it’s rather not a materialistic one like for ex. Contract that force you to record a new thing or something. I need something to stimulate my mind, something that will push me to the creative moods...it’s something that comes very naturally and it’s impossible to make myself do something...the melody, the idea, the concept has to play deep within me, play with my emotions and I have to feel it very close, you know. It’s very personal, that’s obvious, therefore it’s hard to describe...you see, I rather use melodies and themes to express myself in that way, I don’t need to describe this process...it’s clear itself.
When I come up with a melody, that in most cases is compsed on my guitar, I try to build some more parts on this motive...it’s much easier when I find the leading theme of the song, you know, the main melody. It’s also much easier when I find more charachteristic parts that I’ll use as a chorus or strophe, than it usually goes fast like hell...in reality it’s much more difficult to compse a song than one might think. It takes a lot of time, emotions, dedication etc. You have to put yourself within a tune, you have to present a part of you in the best possible way...I’ve always claimed that music says a lot about the compser. If it’s not original and not interesting (as the majority of today’s bands) it’s useless to care about people in those bands...they are most probably not inetersting at all. This is very simple theory but it really works...just check it out!
Well, bandmembers didn’t contribute in the writing process of this album but it’ll change with the next record...now they seem to bother much more about things,
I’m it’ll make our sound much richer and varied, I guess.

10.Yeah, this was SELANI studios near our hometown. Today it seems like this is the most popular studio for metal bands in Poland...but unfortunatelly only very few bands can manage to reach a really quality sound. VADER and CHRIST AGONY are the most known bands that did their last works there and I can assure you it turned out really good...I mean, the studio equipment itself is not that great, I would say it’s just an avarage one, it’s 24 track recorder so you can record a really professional album but the fact which is necessary to mention here is the sound engineer Andy. He’s a perfectionist and it’s mainly his merit that all those records sound such impressively...secondly this is still one of the cheapest studios in Poland therefore we could spend there a couple of weeks and work with no stress, no hurry...completely relaxed, this was also an important cause why we succeded so much with that album...
Well, to be honest we have thought about using another studio, possibly somewehere abroud in near future but I’m not if it calculates. Recently polish label MYSTIC rec. wanted to sign us and they promised to send us to ABYSS to Sweden for two weeks...hm, I’m really impressed by their works but I have and impression that most of albums that come out from this place sound the same, the sound is pretty lifeless and synthetic, I think. My faves are for sure german Woodhouse and if there’s a chanse to go there in the future, we’ll surely do this.
But I’m quite convinced that we are able to find polish studio with the same quality level...the problem lays with the sound producer because it’s obviously half of the succes...

11.Yes, I believe so...at the moment we have around four finnished main themes for the songs and some more ideas for the future album and I can assure you it’ll be continued. I mean, new songs are more matured of course, there is even more variation put into but all in all one can say we found our new style and we’re gonna stick to this one. I’m sure there won’t be such a difference between this albums like it used to be in the past...Today we are much more convinced what we’re gonna reach with the band, we are more self confident and finally we’ve developed as musicans and individuals so new album will reach even further heights. As you can notice, the new BEHEMOTH’s style is far more progressed than it used to be before, some might call it death metallish influences but the point is that we just leart how to play our instruments. And the impresion is that people think we started to play clearier, faster,... we are like one unit now, not that someone doesn’t develope along with skills of others...Now we are stronger and more proffessional than ever and this will be continued as I said before.
I still have plenty of marvelous ideas and I’m constantly very enthusiastic when it comes to creating new music for the band...this means I don’t get bored by what we do and this will not change soon I hope. You know, in the past we did things not thinking that much before doing them, now we are far more conscious of our activity, we have new aproach, new goals, new heights to reach...this is the main difference.As you might know, our music in the past was very barbaric, not that complex, simple and easy to get along with...today we are keen on creating more complex sound, not that cheap anymore. I know there are still some listeners who prefere first or the second album but they certainly don’t understand the artistic intentions of BEHEMOTH, they would like us playing the same riffs all the time...yeah, that might have kept them with us but we wouldn’t have been satisfied from our work anymore, is it clear? We can’t go on compromises with the listeners...they might accept our change and it’ll be highly appreciated but is they don’t, it’s their and only problem. I’m. not sorry about that. But I’m very
sure thare are more and more individuals who are into our new sound ‘coz it simply delivers them more emotions and attraction. When listening to „PANDEMONIC..” it demanded from listener to listen to this album more than one time ‘coz only this way will provide him a succesful listening, you know. Today’s BEHEMOTH sound is much more complex and massive and you have to get really deep into the songs to find out what going on there, but believe me, you have to pay more attention but at the same time you gets greater satisfactory from the listening, at least I think so. I also don’t want anyone think that we cut from our past releases, it’s not like that...but I see it more as a close chapter, the chapter which was not that professional but of course we do respect our first demo tapes and albums...on live performences we still play some songs from the these albums so...But people have to understand that truely work hard on new songs and their level of quality is much bigger so I deeply hope it’ll be appreciated both, by old and new fans as well...
12.As I partly explained above, with each new record we try to push hard things, to go further in our development, not to repeat the same ideas all the time...But this is connected with my personality and character of course. I hate rutine in life, therefore I’m very active person, still alert and conscious of its role I play here.
I like changes because changes provide me the right way of development, only than I feel comfortable with our art... only when there is audiable improvement.

13.Well, it was not arranged before we enetered the studio...some months before I came up with an idea of making such a song, a song based on very bombastic and powerful riffs, simple but very powerful at the same time...I wanted it to become kind of experiment and it really is. It’s not a regular song from BEHEMOTH...you know, it differs a lot from all the other tunes. But, I draw some inspiration from the great russian classical composer MUSSORGSKI and we stole some tunes from his „Pictures from the exhibition” and we mixed this with this symphonic metal sound...I intended this to sound like LAIBACH a bit, and I think it does, it has also some similarities with „Hatework” of MORBID ANGEL...hah, as I told you, kind of experimental tune but at the same time it has very symbolic massage. You see, I wanted to keep this track more as a manifest of our hate and wrath towards what happened in my hometown Gdansk/Danzig.
There was an anniversary of the town, 1000 years has passed but the authorities chose Saint Wojciech as a patron of this happening...Well, the thing with Wojciech is quite complex and in my opinion it must not be mixed with the pagan history of these lands. You see, when Pomerania was a heathen land in the fall of Xth century and it was not connected with young political polish organism...you know, there were all those tries to christanize these lands and Wojciech was sent from Czech to Poland, he was invited by polish king Boleslaw and sent to Pomerania to invade and spread the name of christ. Heathens warned him twice not to come closer to their sacred woods and fields, the magic spots, but he did. So they killed him and stock his head on the stick as a warning for others...
Polish king shortly after bought his corpse from Pomeranians and Wojciech became saint one. It’s a really disgusting story and a true shame in our history.
Unfortunately today they glorify his name and treat him as a patron...but for me these lands will remain heathen for ever...no labels, no stickers will change the fact that Pomerania remains pagan forever! And the title can be translated in english like „Hail to the assassins of Wojciech (997-1997 ten centuries of a shame)”...Huh, I hope you get what we meant by puting this on this record. In fact we didn’t any lyrics ‘coz they simply are too strong so we could get some troubles as there is quite strong intolerance in christian Poland...

14.Yes, you’re that we did a step back to our demo tapes when it comes to the topicks we speak about again. The new album is surely more oriented in satanism and I won’t try to hide it, of course. You see, on „SVENTEVITH” album we started to deal with more cultural topicks, things that we could relate to our glorious past and pagan traditions. I would even dare to say that in  a way we still glorify our ancestors but of course the way of expression has changed so drastically. That’s connected with my intelectual development as an individual and I started to reveal yet unknown dimentions for me. Yeah, we can admit we are back to satanism but it’s not that we have ever quit it. No way! We just try to express our emotions through different aspects and forms of what surround us. But I would say that basis of my lyrics never change...I mean that they always are build of very strong and uncompromising antichristian basis. They have always spoken about the admiration of earth, man and what is the closest to us, nature in its most magnificent form. Now I deal more with some biblical concepts, I used to use many describtions taken from the bible like angels, devils, satan etc. etc. but it’s just another way of expressing my deep inner spirit...You see, BEHEMOTH has always claimed himself as a satanistic band and even if we start to deal with another mithological aspects from let’s say Sumer for example, it won’t change anything...Nowadays I try to speak about more personal things therefore you will hardly find such things like describtions of nature, cultural topicks etc. Instead of this you get more personal and at the same time much more difficult to understand lyrical concept. But I see it more as a natural development, thesedays my words are thoughts are more introspective, deal with a real topick which means myself and my own evirement. Maybe it sounds less interesting for the readers but let’s see, everybody speaks about everything else than themselves. It’s not what I mean to achive...Thesedays my thoughts are closer to neatzchian way of seeing things therefore you’ll find many things in lyrics that deal with the releasing of my own self, my own spirit. I focus more on my own needs and feelings, emotions, try to live the best life it’s possible to do things that are more useful for me. Of course it’s been said through different, rather irrational prisma therefore you’ll find so many poetical influences in my songs and it doesn’t make it easy to understand. Generally I don’t like speak about my words as I don’t wanna destroy the reader’s own vision of them. I believe there are enough universal, they deal with timeless topicks so more intelligent individuals might find something for themselves I hope. Let’s take the first tune from new album, „Thousand plagues I witness”. As everybody can easly notice it deals with my relation to what I define as weakness, christianity.
But there is much deeper meaning of this song than just antichristian, it speaks about deep inner strenght, the power I can confront and win...that’s my point of seeing things, we have to win our own batteles within ourselves, just to be conscious of our individualism and self-confidence.
„Driven by the five-winged star” is one of the most personal lyrics I’ve ever written I guess...it speaks about so important need of having someone you could pour your emotions on...one will call it love, anyway, I do, but read the lyrics and you’ll maybe find out what I meant...it’s very strong feeling, believe me, very natural and hard to express. „The entrance to the spheres of Mars” speaks about me as well, but it’s more direct relation, as god of war Mars is identify with NERGAL. It says about storming the heaven’s gates and dethroning my step father but again, read the lyrics, it’s not just another antichristian song, it’s written very poetically and here I would search for its real values...of course again we could say it speaks about lonliness, about a need to fight and win, to reach more than we have...to keep a strong spirit within ourselves.
You can find some influences from polish writers and poets from the „Young Poland” era, like Tadeusz Micinski, or Stanislaw Przybyszewski...both were the precursors of satanistic thoughts in polish literature. I hope these wrods gave at least small light upon my thoughts that I try to speak about in lyrics...

15.Satanism has been an integral part of my life since ’91...so, you can ralate this date to the moment when I formed the band and this is the ultimate truth. Metal and dark side of life opened for me different doors...doors to unkown, wider and chorizontal dimentions. In fact i was interested in spiritual side of life some years before, when I was a kid but it was never that serious due to my little age and lack of life’s experience. You see, I was brought up in christian family but when you read on polish statistics you will notice that 95% of this society claims to be catholics. So, I was raised in so called catholic family, statistic catholic family if we want to be detailed, and my parents never gave a damn about that strict rules. In one way it was very comfortable situation as they have been very tolerant and even when I enetered the satanistic dimention they treated this more less serious.
On the other hand it was much easier for me, there were no strict rules I was forced to follow or something like that. In the age of 14 I realised that I belong to another dimention, my life is much more colourful and it stands for vital powers and useful energy. And this what satanism meant to me...in the very beginning it was pretty difficult and quite depressive at times ‘coz Satan means destruction.
In my interpretation Satan is an archetype of the One who breaks all stagnated rules and principles, he’s a rebel and so was I. I found in myself deep rebelious spirit and satanism was something that attracted my young, hungry for new knowledge and emotions soul. Satanism has so many different describtions and definitions so I would’t like to mention them or something...Thesedays I’m more
into creating my own values and life philosphy. Of course, Crowley, Nietzche, La Vey...and some others, mostlly those who revealed their satanism in poetry, have influenced me quite strongly and I have a deep respect for their work and dedication but as I said before, I have an creative power to build my own envirement. Therefore I started to work on my own beliefs, well, I call them satanism as it has its roots in that philosphy but it means more to me... As Nietzche said, we have to destroy the old values to bring the new ones, to make space in ourselves to adapt the new virtues, virtues and values that are beilt on strong and unlimited WILL! Satanism might be destructive in the very beginning of its development in our spirit but than, when we remain strong and proudly go through all those changes we may become divine...Than the real meaning of satanism is revealed and it means creative, vital POWERS, something that have to make our life phenomenal, great and glorious. We are responsible for how do we feel, how do we act and live our lifes...it’s only us who can make a decisions in life. I’m conscious of being acompanied by some unknown strong power that lives along with me, supports me and gives me needed strenght to live... but it’s mainly us who have to decide what is gonna happen in our life, if we do really want become something more than avarage. We have to remember that in life the most important thing is to improve our individuality, than we can become something in our own eyes and gain respect...this is what satanism stands for in my opinion, but I have to pint out that it’s based on my own experiences and these are not facts, these are MY beliefs which are my presumption...I don’t wanna force my ideals upon anybody, you have your own right to follow your lifes the way you like, but it’s important to have the priorites in life, to have something you can be proud of, something that will push you further, develope your body and soul...BECOME DIVINE INDIVIDUAL, these are my final words...

16.Yeah, that’s correct, this thing has changed with this album ‘coz as you probably know all of our previous releases had different paintings and those were mostly drawings done by Mr. Darkarts from France. With this album we wanted to create something new and very special...look, it’s the first time we use colours but they are not that bright, it’s rather very calm, grim and mysterious so and so is the music. Yes, that right that new coverartwork is very symbolic but thesedays we are keen more on occult symbolism which has its source in the farest past of the earth’s existence. The pentagram is taken from Necronomicon and it symbolises an individual forces of the most ancient ones...nothing more can be revealed here, sorry. The rest is just my interpretation of this symbol, it’s my artistic vision and of course it strongly deals with my personal beliefs...

17.I’m fed up of this black metal thing which appears thesedays. You see, I’ve always claimed that BEHEMOTH is a strong individuality within the scene and each time I try to prove it with our music, live performences, acts, goals and everything else that counts...Just take a look on swedish metal bands for instance, they all look the same, and it’s boring, it’s dull and we are not gonna follow that way. Yes, we are metal band but it doesn’t mean that we have to follow old stagnated metal rules...thesedays I wear a different uniform, more original for sure, MEFISTO wears a velvet old fashioned blause, we also try to go a bit further with the make-up thing, just not to be similar to everyone else. I believe that at least partly we managed to point out our individuality and far above avarage level, but it’s just my opinion, and everyone has his own, so...But in conclusion I whish to say that we will try to push further in the future, we will experiment with our visual concept, that’s more than sure.

18.No, there is rather stagnation I would say, and it relates to world’s metal scene and not only Poland...well, about the inspiration. I draw it from everyday’s life I could say, but it would be the easiest way...hm, of course music is the most affective way to create my artistic visions, but we could add to this list also literature, the natural surroundings, people we meet everyday, almost everything we have to face each day has more less influence on us...

19.At the moment I’m listening to the new ABSU mini CD. which is absolutely fantastic I would say. Recently intensively I’ve listened to the new GENITORTURES album, which brings some fresh breath within the extreme metal music scene...the compilation album from OZZY OSBOURNE „the Ozzmeth cometh”, KRISIUN „Black force domain” has completely blew me away...new MERCYFUL FATE album seems to be a great come back, the same goes to solo KING DIAMOND „Voo doo” Lp. I’m. also into new IRON MAIDEN and BRUCE DICKINSON albums, Lp’s that prove that real metal won’t ever die...I’m. pretty dissapointed becouse of the new RUNNING WILD and HELLOWEEN albums, which means rather stagnation and lack of good and listenable ideas...TWO of Rob Halford, is an excellent album, also new AETERNUS is and interesting one, but I prefere the first full-lenght I would say.
Ah, from the things that impresses me quite strong recently is the german band from Koln called  BARON, they are absolutely fantastic, it’s the best german band from nowadays. They were an opening band on one of our shows from the last tour we did this year...hey, I encourage everybody to get their demo tape and there is a small apeal to the record companies, keep an eye on this band ‘coz with the right promotion they can invade hell!!!

20.First off I want to develope all the time, there is no limit for me in gaining knowledge and experience. So, I always try to do as many creative  things in life as it’s possible...to develope means to improve your body and soul, ‘coz both are responsible for your psychophisical comfort. That’s what I want to reach in general, but of course there are some more materialistic goals as well, but all of them I could relate to what I said above.

21.Yeah, there some things in my dayly life that keep me far from the rutine of life...of course band is the highest priority and if everything goes fine with this I’m generally in good meed. Besides I study history at the Danzig University, at the moment I’m on the third year, and if I finnish it succesfully I would like to attand two year „Jurnalism school”, but, time shall tell, you know plans might always change so...As I mentioned somewhere before I am also very active person, I care about my phisical conditions so I do train a lot as well...I’ve trained vietnam martial arts for four years now, apart from that I swim at the University section...there are some more things I like to do but they are too prosaic so I don’t wanna bore you with that stuff...

22.Yes, the follower of „PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS” is under preparations and the work title for the fourth opus is „ARS SATANICA”. At the moment we are finnishing deal with AVANTGARDE MUSIC so it’s gonna be the first from two albums for this label. The music will be the result of what we’ve reached on „PANDEMONIC..” album and it’ll be natural continuation so if you like our new album you’re gonna love the next one, I am sure about it. First of all we’ll speed up a bit, that’s a fact, the album will most probably will be much more intense so it’ll be a bit shorter, in case the listener would get bored.
My opinion is based on four songs we’ve almost finnih but as you know, things change so within next months some things might change as well here, in the music, so...but, recently we’ve finnished the visual promotion of the new album, in march we’ve played two exclusive shows in Poland with LIMBONIC ART, later we did european tour with ANCIENT and recently we played on open air festival in Belgium called With dragon’s blaze...we co-headlined the festival with BENEDICTION, and before us there was HAMMERFALL playing, as well as EDGE OF SANITY, AMON AMARTH, GEHENNAH and some less known...
In the end of september we’re gonna play a tour in Poland which will start at VOX MORTIIS fest. with DARK FUNERAL...than we’ll concentrate on new material and in the beginning of 1999 we’ll enter the studio to record a new opus, check this one out and have your eyes open!

23.My tatoos represnt myself, these are drawing of goats...one is taken from Gunther Theys and the other one was fomerly painted By E.Levi but later it was painted by H.R. Giger with his own interpretation...well, of course it has a deeper meaning for me, the tatoos stand for my life ideology...these are symbols which are very close to my code, simple, but true...

24.I’m just visiting my brother in Spain...I need some alienation so I need to get rid of all thoce things here in Poland, I’ll be back in two months, than I will see things in much different prisma...it can only heal my ego, I believe...

25.First of all I would like to express my high appreciation to you, and Peter from ABLAZE for supporting us so strong, believe me, the devil takes OUR side and we will win! It’s really great to be featured in this magazine as it seems that ABLAZE remains as a monolith within extreme music german underground, so there is small apeal to all the metal maniacs out there...SUPPORT THIS MAG!
I would also like to say THANK YOU to all our fans and music lovers from Germania for showing their interest in our activity, for enjoying our music and visiting our shows during those three tours we did in the past. We deeply hope you’ll come as well when we invade your country once again in the next year or occasional festivals...Now it seems like the flame burns higher for BEHEMOTH so I look very optimistic for the future...the new album apraches so keep your eyes and ears open wide, we’re gonna come back and conquer your hearts with even more extreme and proffessional record.Let INTELLIGENCE. PASSION.
TIMELESSNESS and UNSTOPABILTY be my final words...