Behemoth

Behemoth - The Nephilim Rising
Poland's Behemoth are easily the best death metal around today. The only competion is Nile. Behemoth began their career as a black metal band, but slowly stripped away the black to reveal the death underneath. On their most recent album Demigod, the only black metal signifiers left is the corpsepaint and bracers. Now, they aren't the most innovative death metal band around, they play pretty straightforward stuff. But nobody does it better than they do. They're the Arcade Fire of death metal, they take a common, worn out style of music and make it fresh and new again simply by doing it as well as it's ever been done before.