Psyclon Nine has found an audience and either wants to bask in their presence or they just have to stick with what they’re known for. Aesthetically speaking, there’s hardly a maturity to be found on “Less to Heaven”. While the sound design is good, it could have easily been stripped down to one to one-and-a-half minutes without suffering a loss.Less To Heaven by Psyclon NineOnce we get into the bulk of the album, however, things do start to look up. It’s all a continual build-up with no pay-off. But whereas with “” we were given small snippets of tense, instrumental pieces that supplemented the theme of the album (such as with ‘ Consecration’ or even going to “We The Fallen” with ‘Of Decay (An Exit)’, listening to ‘BLOOD IN’ for three-minutes and eighteen-seconds isn’t quite as fantastical as you might expect.
I believe that Bellum took lessons from his solo project to craft this opening track a haunting dark ambient track complete with piano. But here we are in 2022 with Psyclon Nine’s brand-new album “Less to Heaven”. ‘BLOOD IN’ begins the album and it is a bit of a bore. Admittedly, Psyclon Nine did release an album in 2018 titled “Icon of the Adversary” but I never had the chance to finish a review for that one. A bit of a hiatus occurred for the next five years as founder Nero Bellum focused on his dark ambient, noise, and general soundtrack solo project (which has amassed quite a sweet collection of sample libraries, for those musicians out there). 2013 was last when we reviewed their album “” which received a very well-deserved perfect score of 10 out of 10.
With ‘Money And Sex And Death’ I am presenting your reflection to yourself.Less To Heaven Industrial Metal Psyclon Nine Steven Gullotta It has been quite some time since we last poked around Psyclon Nine in full the once aggrotech and now full-on industrial metal project has received copious amounts of praise and controversies since then. The misery of others has never been viewed by so many angles, and strictly for our entertainment. This is evident in the record’s first single, the seething ‘Money And Sex And Death’, which builds with writhing tension, like a snake preparing to strike its victim, before exploding into an all out audio assault.īellum states of the song that “it was inspired by the excitement we feel when we see the world burning around us and the abhorrent personal truths that we hold as sacred. While many acts have a constant faster-louder approach to industrial-black metal, Bellum is unafraid to use all manner of tempos to build atmosphere. It also sees the group charting undefined musical territory that bridges elements of metalcore with doom electronics, trip-techno with black metal, and experimental cinematic soundscapes with alternative rock. The forthcoming new album, ‘Less To Heaven’, is a complex and immersive work that sees Psyclon Nine at a creative peak, with concussive, machine-precise drums, hammering guitars, scathing vocals and evil electronics all interplaying seamlessly. In the ensuing years, Bellum’s music has taken him down an even darker path, his distinctive whispered-scream vocals guiding us through an idiosyncratic take on modern underground music that has implemented elements of black metal and post-punk influences that, although often featuring haunting melodies, has often had an undercurrent of unbridled menace. Its follow-up, ‘INRI’ (2005), displayed a marked evolution with a lyrical focus on religious themes.
The brainchild of Nero Bellum, the dark, aggressive electronic assault of his group’s 2003 debut album ‘Divine Infekt’ immediately earned them popularity and notoriety worldwide. The music of Psyclon Nine is not for the faint-hearted.