[citation needed] Through the uncommercial nature of their music, visuals, and live performances, the band quickly attracted a cult following.
[3] As a full band, Beherit released one full-length album and many demos and compilations of raw and minimalistic black metal.
Laiho, the group's frontman, continued as a solo project and released two more albums under the band's name, H418ov21.C in 1994 and Electric Doom Synthesis in 1995.
Beherit was formed in 1989 by three young musicians from Rovaniemi, Lapland; vocalist and guitarist Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance (Marko Laiho), bassist Daemon Fornication and drummer Sodomatic Slaughter (Jari Pirinen).
[1] The band released three demos the following year—Seventh Blasphemy, Morbid Rehearsals, and Demonomancy[4]—and also gathered reputation for their live shows, which included pig heads and goats on stage.
[10] The album was highly experimental within the black metal scene, as the band used whispers and space-like electronic and synth sounds to strengthen its hypnotic atmosphere.
Laiho still recorded two albums of dark ambient music, H418ov21.C and Electric Doom Synthesis, and released them under the band's name.
As the band did not reform and Laiho had eventually lost interest in black metal, he went on to continue his musical career in dark ambient as Suuri Shamaani and in hardcore techno as DJ Gamma-G. Beherit was reformed in 2008, with original members Nuclear Holocausto (having returned to Finland from Thailand) and Sodomatic Slaughter, and newcomers Ancient Corpse Desekrator and Abyss.
According to Isten fanzine's obviously satirical article, the conflict originated from several misunderstandings and practical jokes, involving Laiho, but Mika Luttinen of Impaled Nazarene believed he received death threats in Norwegian.
[7] Laiho commented on the conflict in an interview for January 1994 issue of Masters of Brutality magazine: "When we started the band about 4 years ago we knew this and so that's okay.