Behemoth Lands at #56 on Billboard Charts
Metal Blade Records is proud to announce that leaders of blackened death metal, BEHEMOTH, have landed on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart at #56 with just under 8,500 copies of Evangelion being sold in its first week. Evangelion, BEHEMOTH’s ninth full-length studio album, also took the #5 position on the Billboard Hard Music Albums Chart and #6 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart. BEHEMOTH also landed on the Canadian charts with the release of Evangelion coming in at #61 on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart, #6 on the Independent Chart, and #10 on the Hard Music Chart. The success of Evangelion doesn’t stop here though. BEHEMOTH has been devastating charts worldwide in its first week in addition to landing some of metals most coveted Magazine covers, including Decibel Magazine (out now), Metal Hammer Magazine (out now), Zero Tolerance (out now), and Metalized (out now).
Evangelion’s first week worldwide chart numbers:
Poland: #2
Finland: #17
Austria: #45
Germany: #59
Switzerland: #88
Netherlands: #5 (Indie Charts)
USA:
#56 Billboard Top 200
#5 Billboard Hard Music Albums
#6 Billboard Independent Albums
Canada:
#61 Top 200 Current Albums
#6 Independent Chart
#10 Hard Music Chart
Commented guitarist/vocalist Adam “Nergal” Darski: “Well…we have never been in this band for awards or charts. It’s always been about the most honest music we can deliver. But I can’t ignore the fact that people DO appreciate our new album. Thank you so much for buying the record and supporting us! It’s sooo much motivating! We owe you! See you all on European tour very soon. You will not be disappointed!”
(+12 rating, 3 votes)
Here we go… every little douchebag emo kid is buying this album. Metal only sells this well when there’s other factors involved – like the whole deathcore.metalcore.fagcore shit going on. Give it a couple of years and there’ll be another grunge scene or boybands. I love metal, but I’m waiting for all of the eyeliner/I’msad B.S. to go away.
PS – For fucks sake, please stop the turned up anthrax painter’s cap shit at the metal shows. That shit was stupid the first time around – DAMN!
wait what? behemoth rules! I don’t mind if emocore kids buy this album. They need some real metal in their lives.
Wow! Good job Behemoth! Evangelion is definitely one of the best metal albums out this year.
This is due to Behemoth’s increased exposure in the United States in the past 5-6 years…same thing can be said for bands like Bodom, Dimmu, etc. – NOT just because some metalcore kids are buying the record.
Seriously man, first comment is useless. Who gives a fuck about any of that, if its bringing kids to the scene and getting the bands the opportunity to tour the places you are at, that is a good thing. Good to see Behemoth kicking ass, this new album is fucking phenomenal.