TRIPTYKON Melana Chasmata CD (2014)

Tom G. Warrior has been rewriting the rules of extreme metal since Celtic Frost, and TRIPTYKON is where that lineage gets darker, heavier, and more uncompromising. Melana Chasmata, released in 2014, is the sound of someone who has nothing left to prove and everything left to say.

Where the debut Eparistera Daimones announced the band's arrival with blunt force, Melana Chasmata expands into something more sprawling and desolate. The doom passages drag like grief. The black metal edges cut clean. Guest vocals from Simone Vollenweider on tracks like "Black Snow" add a gothic atmospheric weight that sits in stark contrast to the album's more crushing moments. This is Switzerland's darkest export, and it belongs in any serious collection sitting alongside EMPEROR and PRIMORDIAL.

2014 full length album. Deluxe Edition Mediabook CD. Gothic, Doom, Death and Black Metal. Origin: Switzerland.

Fans of: 1349, EMPEROR, PRIMORDIAL, ENSLAVED, WATAIN, MARDUK, SATYRICON