Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name - review
Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name - review
Tracklist
01. I02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. VII
08. VIII
A review by
Thryce December 25, 2009
Label: Hydra Head Records
Total Running Time: 42:55
Fed up with the Christmas spirit already? Do you have more than enough of the fabricated coziness and fake warm 'n gently atmosphere? Well, luckily there's always Metal Storm to turn to. As an ultimate "Fuck Christmas" gift, here's a review of an album so cold 'n sick, you'd wish you were running around in a Christmas elf costume, harassing people by giving away free candy. Enjoy this Christmas killer... or not.
Wow. Just fucking wow. Khlyst is without a single doubt among the most unsettling shit I've ever heard - EVER! If you thought the soundtrack to The Blair Witch Project was somewhat disturbing, think again, that thing was just a soothing lullaby. If you thought you heard it all on Today Is The Day's Sadness Will Prevail when it comes to discomforting, well, nothing prevailed at all. I kid you not when I say; this is how the overwhelming horror of being left for dead in a dark mahogany coffin must sound like.
This band is so unearthly, immensely dark and downright creepy that they really put a whole new meaning to the term scaring the living daylight out of people. In fact, if I wouldn't know any better, I'd say the phrase is invented just after Khlyst released this brooding menace.
However, if you look into the band member's past record, some pieces of the petrifying puzzle fall into place. Two out of three members were in that certain psychopathic league of frenzied musicians, aka Khanate, while one of them also plays in Isis vocalist Aaron Turner's Lotus Eaters. Vocal duties are handed over to Runhild Gammelsæter, known from the newly-reformed - but still kvlt-as-hell and just as superior - Thorr's Hammer, but maybe better known from the occasional guest vocals for Sunn O))).
Talking about Gammelsæter 's vocals, those are just insanely frightening and hauntingly deranged. Like in eternal agony, harsh screams and shrieks of unfathomable madness are going astray over the gloomy yet hostile soundscapes.
Khlyst is everything and nothing. Khlyst is low budget drone. Khlyst is high definition ambient. Khlyst is wandering noise. Khlyst is the wind whistling through the deepest frostbitten woods. Khlyst is a dead kid in a corn field. Khlyst is the ancient ruin, long abandoned by those who once founded and tended it. Khlyst is in fact the same desolate house as in The Blair Witch Project. Khlyst is the entire universe closing in around you.
PS: this band is obviously too grim to have a MySpace page. But some totally awesome chick called gutural0woman uploaded all tracks on YouTube. Look it up... you might not survive.
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Really glad to see this album being featured here. I love this album. I must buy it asap. It's horrible experience (in the good sense)... And it has members from bands I really enjoy (I'm a big Khanate and Sunn O))) fan) and the shrieks are just inhuman, makes Angela Gossow sound like a cute puppy! Sick music, and I love it. Thank you for use this review as the ultimate "fucking christmas"  Oh yeah... One more thing: BEAUTIFUL artwork, I would love to have it as a painting in my room.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Very good artwork. Ima' check them out.
---- Coldgrits
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For once Lucas doesn't get to review an album with exceptional cover art! Now that's what I call the spirit of Christmas.  On a side note, this sounds...interesting so far. I don't have the time to play the tracks completely from the Youtube page, but I'll return at a later time. It sounds promising.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 18612 Written by Troy Killjoy on 26.12.2009 at 22:33 Well, from what I've heard from Lucas, he doesn't like this band. So I knew that this album wasn't written by him even before I clicked to read the review. Good that you seem to like it 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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I'm going to check this out right now, I hope it's as good as you make it to be.
---- Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
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