Some early-’90s black metal is prized for its rawness and ferocity, but this LP — the debut full-length from Finland’s Beherit — earned canonical status largely due to its unsettling weirdness. The genre’s familiar blast and bludgeon is here, but it’s seasoned with constant surprise. Whether through vocals that take the form of spectral whispers, sudden intrusions of forlorn gothic melody or darkly psychedelic synth interludes, guitarist-vocalist-keyboardist and band mastermind Marko Laiho, a.k.a. Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance, seems intent on injecting a heavy dose of surrealism into a style that was already at risk of growing overly orthodox. Nothing else sounds like Drawing Down the Moon, least of all the subsequent releases of Beherit’s initial ‘90s run, which jettisoned metal entirely in favor of avant-garde industrial and spare electronic sound collage.