Eerily Howling Winds 4. Det Glemte Riket 5. Huldra Dans 6. Paa Evig Vandring 7. Fjellets Hemmelighet 8. Algol 9. Svartalvheim 2. Trumps of an Archangel 3. Huldradans 4. The Call of the Absu Deep 5. Det glemte riket 6. Paa evig vandring 7. Ved trolltjern 8. Eerily Howling Winds 9. Likferd Psyklon Aeon 2. Core Solution 3. Subtle Manipulation 4. Two Thousand Years 5. No Names Above the Names 6.
The Prophetic Method 7. World ov Worms in fact all of these things, and more, as it settles nicely between the genres of extreme, melodic black and death metal, putting a cold, industrial sheen on the proceedings that has little to do with pulsing beats of machinery, but everything to do with the destructive, post-apocalyptic aesthetics captured through the relentless sound. The opening track, wonderfully titled "Hammer Revelation" serves as a connect-the-dots lesson in everything Zyklon will be using to crush your ears.
Blasting, warlike drums courtesy of one of the most machine-like human beings in the extreme metal camp, Morbid Angel style guitars that crash into the eerie minor chord streams typical of Norse black metal, mostly black metal vocals, and some solid sweeping patterns, leads and a little more melody than one might have expected.
But with "Terrordrome", the band is back in the fast lane, thankfully with some superior riffing to several of the other tracks, and this is perhaps one of the band's more iconic career songs. The mix of the album is pretty much perfect to convey its sinister diaries of Armageddon, though I felt like the bass took a backseat much of the time, which strangely does not affect the balance of aggressive speed and impressive guitar work.
The use of samples is tasty, and the band is clever enough to sprinkle the compositions with enough colliding, shifting dynamics that one is held in furor throughout much of the 41 minute length, without the ballistic overkill that a record might suffer if it were simply about speed and execution, with no lyrical bent or ability to consume the listener in a conflagration of inspiration.
Half of the tracks are excellent: "Storm Detonation", "Chaos Deathcult", "Terrordrome" and "Transcendental War", and the rest are good enough to fill in the blanks.
I imagine there were individuals who felt this band would leave both Emperor and Myrkskog in the dust, but it's really just a fusion of the infernal energies that drove both acts, and one can surmise that it offered just enough 'out of reach' of the members' main bands that it had to occur to curtail some measure of ambition. Considering the popularity of the more unforgiving, technical ends of death or black metal, especially here in the States, this sort of project was surely in demand, so Samoth and crew were positioned to explode.
You are the guitarist and drummer in one of the most legendary Black Metal bands in existence. Your band is about to break up after the release of your fourth studio album. Already, before writing a single note, expectations are extremely high. This is what was in store for the continuation of Samoth and Trym of Emperor, as they started down the path of their new band, Zyklon. This is a band that is evidently seeking to eventually lose the Emperor tag and, with such a development in their sound, such independence will be far easier to grapple.
Although none of those bands had reached their full goals when Zyklon evolved from merely a side-project to a thunderous death machine, it still feels it was the right way for them to go. That being said, this album is definitely not for everyone. The shade of black metal occasionally sneaks into the song-writing here, but generally it is classifiable as death metal. If they only knew how to make it work properly… There are some very talented people in this band, and it clearly shows in terms of quality in practice.
Violent and soothing at the same time, it really exemplifies what this album could have been. Faust contributed lyrics to this album, and he offered some very deep, logical ones, which then were altered by the band. The problem is it drags way too much for it to be enjoyable, and it seems as they somewhat used it as filler.
The closer also acts very much as filler, and is not worth mentioning. So is the case, obviously, because the weaker songs sound atrocious. They could easily have cut this album down by twelve minutes by removing the bad songs.
Good musicians, great sound, and a few stellar songs. The rest is filler. Still, this is worth buying for the best tracks alone. Metal Archives loading Username Password Login. Bands alphabetical country genre Labels alphabetical country Reviews R. Privacy Policy. Buy from World ov Worms Zyklon. Write your own review. Diamhea , February 20th, Atarisegatendo , December 4th, Those who love the extreme, commit musical suicide with Zyklon.
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