Bethlehem

A punishing German depressive black metal group united by a morbid, almost pathological fascination with suicide, madness, sickness, and death, Bethlehem emerged in the early 1990s with a style that hewed closely to the frosty tenets of doomy European black metal. Debuting in 1994 with the uncompromising and aptly named Dark Metal, the band would add elements of industrial and post-metal to their sonic arsenal on later offerings like A Sacrificial Offering to the Kingdom of Heaven in a Cracked Dog's Ear (2010), before returning to the icy miasma of earlier offerings with Bethl...