Sometimes, words fail me when it comes time to write a review.
\nHow does one express an idea he heard musically that seems to defy
\ndescription?<\/p>\n
This is the case I’m faced with regarding the Norweigan
\ndeath-metal band Zyklon, whose debut album
\nWorld Ov Worms<\/i> (no, that’s
\nnot<\/i> a mis-spelling on my part) was released earlier this
\nyear. How do you describe something which is heavier than an anvil
\nfalling on your head, but isn’t strictly death metal? How do you
\ndescribe something which has hints of industrial music intertwined,
\nbut is most definitely not an industrial album? How do you describe
\na band whose two guitarists also share the bass work, but who at
\nthe time of the recording did not officially have a lead
\nsinger?<\/p>\n
How do you describe all that? How’s about “good”? How’s about
\n“damn good”? How’s about “slam your head into the steering wheel
\nuntil your eyes bleed damn good”?<\/p>\n
The band – lead guitarist\/bassist Destructhor, guitarist\/bassist
\nZamoth and drummer Trym – take metal to the extreme on
\nWorld Ov Worms<\/i>, creating a sound which must be what the
\nApocalypse will sound like. (Ah, so
\nthat’s<\/i> what I’ll hear the day the Cubs win the World
\nSeries!) Add into this limited, but well-used, programming and
\nsamples (courtesy of T. Akkerhaugen), the occasional female
\nspoken-word vocal from Persephone and the throat-scraping vocals of
\nDaemon, and you’ve got a band which is definitely not for the weak
\nof heart.<\/p>\n
If
\nWorld Ov Worms<\/i> has any weakness, it’s that the drums are
\nmixed so far into the front that they tend to blot out the guitar
\nand bass work – a shame, since they’re as integral to Zyklon’s
\nsound as the lightning-fast trap work by Trym. It also makes it
\nthat much harder to decipher Daemon’s vocals on tracks like “Chaos
\nDeathcult” and “Terrordrome”. (The liner notes of my promotional
\ncopy say the lyrics are anti-religious and apoclyptical – okay, if
\nyou say so. I can’t tell.)<\/p>\n
\nWorld Ov Worms<\/i> is by no means an easy listen, but anything
\nthat’s worth using your brain on has some level of challenge to it.
\nIf this is the next wave in extreme death metal, then Zyklon is
\ndefinitely leading the way\u2026 and it will be interesting to
\nsee how it develops in the years to come. This is an exciting
\nalbum, and well worth the sacrifice of time and your hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7655],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-39556","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-zyklon","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39556"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39556"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}