Formed as one of many side projects of Dan Swanö, and consisting mostly of people associated with him in one way or another, Pan-Thy-Monium presented a unique take on death metal. The incomprehensible vocals are growly even by death metal standards, while the music shows a great deal of diversity, with fast parts, slow grinding, weird sax breaks -- the riffs are constantly changing and always interesting. It was once written somewhere that that band had a determined start and end period planned all along, and thus Khaoohs & Kon-Fus-Ion was to be their last album. Though there was talk of a reformation at one point, this appears now to be not the case.
The music is quite strange and complex, with structure and length of songs recalling those of progressive metal. Other features include unconventional saxophone and violin passes, cryptic song names, various noises and bizarre sounds.
All the albums are conceptual albums which are supposed to tell about life and death of Raagoonshinnaah, a sort of "chaos god," but actually the songs have no lyrics, instead incomprehensible gibberish sung in harsh, death metal-style growling (which corresponds to the assumed nature of the songs' protagonist and also parodies to some extent the so-called "metal epics"), because, as Swanö said later in an interview, they wanted the vocalist to use his voice as an instrument, although some songs include clean or digitized vocals.
Demos
* ...Dawn (1990, demo)
Albums
* Dawn of Dreams (1992) * Khaooohs (1993) * Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)
klaro, sind ja fast alle edge of sanity leute... hab 2 alben und hat mir damals gar nicht gefallen, hab ich aber nun bestimmt auch schon ein halbes jahrzehnt nimmer gehört...
ich würde vorschlagen einen ereuten feldversuch zu starten
ich finde die einfach nur genial vom ersten tag an wo ich die scheibe besessen habe und das war 1992. für damalige zeit sehr avantgard und das sind sie bis heute geblieben.
Kenne auch alle Platten von denen und sie rotieren weiterhin regelmässig. So abgefahrene Mukke gibt es auch noch von Sigh aus Japan.Wer allerdings nicht auf Blackmetal steht sollte die ersten Scheiben meiden.Die letzten drei sind aber schon besonders!!!!!!!
DOOMEDSOULS
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20.01.2008 15:20
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