{"id":117616,"date":"2026-04-08T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117616"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:52:41","slug":"behemoth-debut-new-music-video-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117616","title":{"rendered":"BEHEMOTH &#8211; Debut New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Polish blackened death metal band BEHEMOTH have released a cover of \u201c<strong>The Return Of Darkness And Evil<\/strong>\u201d by pioneering black metal outfit <strong>Bathory<\/strong>. Originally released in 1985, that song also served as the title track to the <strong>Bathory<\/strong>\u2018s 1985 sophomore album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Behemoth<\/strong>\u2018s newly issued rendition of the song is set to serve as the theme for this year\u2019s edition of the annual \u2018<strong>Mystic Festival<\/strong>\u2018, which will be held June 03rd-06th in Gdansk, Poland. <strong>Behemoth<\/strong>, <strong>Megadeth<\/strong> and <strong>Black Label Society<\/strong> will be headlining that event, which is billed as Poland\u2019s largest metal festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SWR9wmrZ8Y&amp;list=RD7SWR9wmrZ8Y&amp;start_radio=1\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish blackened death metal band BEHEMOTH have released a cover of \u201cThe Return Of Darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117619,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616\/revisions\/117619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}