⚔Bethlehem Albums Ranked⚔

⚔Bethlehem Albums Ranked⚔

0:00 Intro/Band Biography
3:04 Album Rankings/Final Thoughts
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Welcome to album ranking Wednesdays here on the channel and tonight we are going deep beneath the earth into Germany for a look at one of the pioneering bands of DSBM with Bethlehem and this one is a subscriber request.

Bethlehem is a black/doom metal band from Grevenbroich (NRW), Germany, formed in 1991 by Jürgen Bartsch and Kläus Matton. Many of their lyrics revolve around sickness, morbidity, suicide, death and madness, and may to some extent be personal to the band. Bethlehem are widely credited for inventing the term dark metal (named after their first album).

The group was founded in 1991. Before begetting Bethlehem, Bartsch and Matton used to play in a German thrash metal band called Morbid Vision. They recorded a few demos in the early 1990s before releasing their debut full-length album "Dark Metal" in 1994, which featured Andreas Classen on vocals.

On their second full-length album "Dictius te necare" (Latin: You must kill yourself), Classen was replaced with Rainer Landfermann on vocals (known as the bass player in the German death metal band Pavor). Landfermann's vocals were particularly extreme, described by critics and fans alike as "one of the sickest and most extreme voices you'll ever hear from a human being”

Alright so lets get into it shall we?
➤#9-A Sacrificial offering to the kingdom of heaven (Released in 2009 On Red Stream Inc.)
➤#8-Hexaphobia (Released in 2014 on Prophecy Productions)
➤#7-Bethlehem-Self Titled (Released in 2016 on Prophecy Productions)
➤#6-Live Empty (Released in 2019 on Prophecy Productions)
➤#5-Sardonian Downfall Under The Sign Of Irreligious Performance (Released in 1998 On Red Stream Inc.)
➤#4-Shadows From The World Of Alexander (Released in 2001 on Prophecy Productions)
➤#3-My Way (Released in 2004 On Red Stream Inc.)
➤#2-Dark Metal (Released in 1994 on Adi pocere Records)
➤#1-You Must Kill Yourself (Released in 1996 on Red Stream Inc.)