Bethlehem is a German Dark metal band from Grevenbroich. The Band was founded in 1991 and formed the term Dark metal with their same named debut album.

Band

Many of Bethlehems songs show morbid and sick lyrics, which may be the fact for the attraction of the band for the most. On Dictus Te Necare (lat. You should kill yourself) Rainer Landfermann, well-known from the German Death metal band Parvor, is the vocalist, whose voice is described by Kostas Panagiotou in his review on dark-metak.de as "one of the sickest and most extreme voices you'll ever hear from a human being". On S.U.I.Z.I.D. his place is taken by Marco Kehren of the band Deinonychus. Guido Meyer de Voltaire, the vocalist from Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt on, is also well-known with his Band Aardvarks.

During their development Bethlehem modernized their style and so you can hardly find the early Black and Death metal influences, but more Neue Deutsche Härte (New German Hardness), Gothic and Electronic. In 1998 Bethlehem collaborates on the soundtrack for the American underground movie Gummo with the tracks Schuld uns'res knöcherigen Faltpferds und Verschleierte Irreligiösität.

Marilyn Manson said about Bethlehem: "Marilyn Manson is the harvest of thrown away kids, and America is now afraid to reap what it has sown. The same is with Slipknot, who stir up the slime of your comfortable dreams. Or with Bethlehem from Germany, who definitely are the biggest agitators of a basically under-developed nation. I have full confidence in both band, Slipknot and Bethlehem, their harvest time already has begun."

Discography

Albums and Singles

Mein Weg (2004)

Suicide Radio (2003)

Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt (2001)

Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt (American Version, has only one CD) (2001)

* Profane Fetmilch Lenzt Elf Krank (7"-Single]) (2000)