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Disintegrate


Fast, brutal and beautifully dark is all that can be said about Zyklons latest album.
Guitar riffs that grind in your head, blast beats after blast beats and a brutal roaring vocal
makes it all so f…king great. Aggression is a key word for Zyklon and they know how to stay true to the death metal genre.

I haven’t heard the “Aeons” album, so I don’t know if “Disintegrate” is a progression or a step back. All I can say is that the album is heavy and brutal, with the drive that death metal demands. You can’t resist being dragged into Zyklons void, as they tell how the world has become and how it’s all going to hell. The lyrics with the music is almost a soundtrack
to the end of the world…. With songs like “disintegrate”, “a cold grave” and “underdog”, makes you feel the power Zyklon creates.  Great.
           

Homepage: www.zyklontribe.com

-Warius


Aeon

The first thing to cross my mind as I put this CD in the player, is a frightening resemblance between the opening chord of “Psyklon Aeon” and Old Mans Child's song “In Defiance of Excistence”. But contrary to Old Mans Child, Zyklon is not able to capture me in the same way as a listener. This is death metal of a somewhat softer kind, with “grind” vocals some times resembling what Paradise Lost had in the beginning of the albums “Gothic” and ”Shades Of God”, at times crossing over to black metal.

This is thoroughly and nicely done, but is still not able to give me anything after 3-4 listen throughs. It's predictable and something you've heard several times before. This leaves you with a “fair enough” kind of feeling after the listening séance is over..

“Electric Current” is probably the most exciting track, the reason for this being more interesting and diverse vocals, but the best song is the albums last track “An Eclectic Manner”, which bears a resemblance to actual melodies and a bit more feeling than what's happening earlier on the album. It's not a long track, but it still has some kind of an “epic feel” to it. This is the one song that's going to make me check out future Zyklon releases, and possibly allow “Aeon” to spin some extra rounds in my CD-player at some later occation.

If you like aggressive and “grim”, at the same time controlled without it absolutely having to be “necro”, this album will possibly give you some form of satisfaction.

www.zyklontribe.com

By: Kenneth Brastad