Review Summary: Organized Chaos at its finest.
Over the years as taste changes, cynicism grips at you as a listener, viewer or reader - you try to find something that you can connect to as a person. Regardless if it's an album, book or movie, you try to recapture something that you adored once upon a time that made your blood pump faster, your brain process information faster. It's basically you as a human being hitting that perfect zen: a personal utopia where everything clicks for you...the sky opens up for you, colors become more vivid, sounds become clearer etc. While it does sound like I'm describing getting off which I'm not, certain forms of media just puts me in that zone that I described. Zyklon's debut album is like that perfect storm that comes once in a while where production, songwriting and aggression hits you like a wrecking ball made of bacon that you want to get bludgeon by it...repeatedly.
The album just starts with a sample that culminates with some broad saying "Welcome to a World of Worms" in that svelte voice and then bam! Emeril Lagasse like: the wall of noise they started hits you like pitchforks to the side of the head without any signs of relenting. The shrieks and growls from their vocalist just adds a layer of complexity that becomes more manic in its delivery as the song culminates into a breakdown that doesn't deter the song at all, but adds to it by being a sledgehammer crushing your windpipe in slow motion. The drumming and the guitar playing with its pedal to the metal routine in both musicianship and tone becomes the glue that holds such a cacophony to its relentless drive for noise nirvana.
The format for every song is identical all in all, but the way they incorporate their art in such a manner that it becomes a chaos sphere - perfectly symmetrical in its delivery time over time. While there are samples and techno beats layered in some of the songs - it doesn't become a distraction but more like a break before the vortex begins to spin again in its malevolence.
Highlights of the album are "Hammer Revelation", "Deduced to Overkill", "Chaos Deathcult" and "Transcendental War - Battle between the gods". Lyrics were written by Faust which if you want to be critical of the album was the weak point, regardless though - it added a sense of megalomania that added to the maniacal way the album sounds at it is.
While the band released two more albums with less critical acclaim and as of 2010 the band is in hiatus. World Ov Worms burned brightly that even though the flames disappeared quickly, the way it shone will always be a testament to how amazing a band that hits all cylinders can produce a masterpiece.
