Behemoth have released the new song and video “The Shadow Elite,” the second single from their new album The Sh*t Ov God, out May 9th.

Being the notorious religious provocateurs they are, the Polish extreme metal pioneers purposefully dropped the new song on Ash Wednesday, unleashing their most barbarically old-school black metal track in some time. The smothering, violent blastiness evokes the second-wave black metal era from which Behemoth originates, and the music is coupled with a shocking performance video that is also aesthetically vintage.

The camcorder-style black-and-white clip purports to be filmed during an underground, invite-only gathering curated by Behemoth for their most faithful fans: the titular “Shadow Elite.” It’s hard to determine the fact from the fiction when you watch the video after reading the band’s official press statement on it:

“On an exclusive invite-only basis, the band’s legionnaires gathered at a secret location for a raw,...