Just when I think I've got a handle on what makes up the Beherit discography, something like At The Devil's Studio 1990 comes along and completely fuckin' confuses me again. Really, at this point, their early output is such a jumbled, disorganized mess that I'm developing the opinion that 1995's Drawing Down The Moon really was the first actual album from these experimental Finnish black metal demons. Before this, Beherit's pre-Drawing recordings are a mishmash of ultra-raw demos and rehearsal tapes that have been released on the Werewolf Semen And Blood and /The Oath of Black Blood discs that have both been touted by various mouths as the band's "first album", but this recording from 1990 apparently predates that stuff. Of course, I had to get my claws on this - this is awesome early filth that is spectacular in it's noisiness, and does appear to be the earliest studio session put to tape. A ferocious, fucked-up black/death metal recording, for sure, At The Devil's Studio was apparently recently found by one of the band members who had previously thought the master to be lost, and hearing it now shows how Beherit early on helped to create the whole bestial black/death aesthetic. At it's core, this is frenzied blackened death metal with brutal noisy riffing, cacophonic drumming, and some of the fucking weirdest black/death vocals ever, the belching, mewling vocals warped even further by using bizarre effects and insane pitch-shifted gargling noise. Yikes. I'd have to say that this recording sounds even more insane than the Oath Of Black Blood session, the music very often disintegrating into total swirling low-fi chaos, the guitar frequently mutating into nearly incoherent, blood-soaked anti-riffs, the band exploding into an ultra-primitive blackgrind barbarism. This disc contains a bunch of early versions of songs that would also appear on the Oath Of Black Blood release and later splits and Eps ("Grave Desecration", "Demonomancy", "The Oath Of Black Blood", "Witchcraft"), but it also has some never-before-released tracks like "Whores Of Belial" and "At The Devil's Churns" that make it essential for Beherit fanatics. Not only highly recommended to Beherit disciples and hardcore black/death junkies, but also to any of you guys who are fans of seriously demented blackened punk/noise and noisecore who might not already be familiar with the garbled Satanic genius of Beherit. Awesome.