World ov Worms

Zyklon is the perfect example of as when a side-project become a full-time band, it easily steals focus from the members’ main bands. 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.

This is a fun album rather than a lost opportunity, although it’s flawed in several ways. Very mature at its stage, “World ov Worms” delivers a very different side to death metal than most people are used to. 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. The main problem is that the material sometimes sound a bit harshly put together, and it doesn’t fit very well all the time.

“Hammer Revelation”, the opener, introduces us to this new genre, and it does a great job at it. Violent and soothing at the same time, it really exemplifies what this album could have been. How one chooses to look at things doesn’t change the fact that everyone involved in this project play, scream and pound at their best on this song. Even the lyrics are the best ones in “Hammer Revelation”. Faust contributed lyrics to this album, and he offered some very deep, logical ones, which then were altered by the band. These are some of the best lyrics I’ve ever read. After the opening track, it’s all downhill. “Deduced to Overkill” & “Chaos Deathcult” offer some good riffage and brutal drumming, and are considered good songs by me, but the first let-down come in shape of track nr. 4 ; “Storm Detonation”. The problem is it drags way too much for it to be enjoyable, and it seems as they somewhat used it as filler. “Worm World” is also an enjoyable song, as the band has taken advantage of their talented guitarists, and made them play somewhat crazy patterns. The closer also acts very much as filler, and is not worth mentioning.

Maybe if this album had been shorter it would’ve been a greater success. 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. It’s really a shame how often this happens. Good musicians, great sound, and a few stellar songs. The rest is filler. Still, this is worth buying for the best tracks alone.

Outstanding tracks : Hammer Revelation, Deduced to Overkill & Worm World