PAN.THY.MONIUM Khaooohs LP

PAN.THY.MONIUM Khaooohs LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Another one of my all-time favorite weirdo death metal bands, the mighty Pan.Thy.Monium produced a handful of recordings in the early-to-mid 90's before breaking up, all of them ambitiously complex avant-metal oddities that were unlike anything else coming out of the metal underground at the time. Created by famed Swedish producer and musician Dan Swanö (also of Bloodbath, Edge Of Sanity, Karaboudjan, Nightingale and a million other bands) and rounded out by fellow members of Edge Of Sanity and Swedish doom weirdos Ophthalamia, Pan.Thy.Monium combined their crushing, doom-laden Swedish death metal with bizarre, almost Beefheartian compositions and unusual instrumentation that turned much of their stuff into a weird kind of spacey deathprog, and surrounded it all with an invented mythology and language about an eternal conflict between the gods Raagoonshinnaah and Amaraah. While the band's music could be uneven, it was almost always interesting, a confusional din of churning death metal riffage, oddball arrangements, counter-intuitive riffing, jarring tempo changes and some killer jazzy elements courtesy of Dan's brother Dag Swanö on saxophone. As weird as their stuff was in the early 90s, it set the stage for later mind-bending bands like Maudlin Of The Well, latter-day Sigh, !T.O.O.H.!, Unexpect, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Giant Squid. Much of their catalog has just been reissued this year after a long stretch of being out of print, and we're stocking all of 'em...
     Album number two from these Swedish death metal weirdos, 1993's Khaooohs saw the band returning to the surreal heaviness of their debut, once again opening the album with the sound of a ticking clock; the short intro track "I Månens Sken Dog En Skugga" introduces the album with a bizarre soundscape that leads into the warped psychedelic chug of "Under Ytan", where 70's style hard rock leads are splattered across a monstrous death n' roll groove and pure old-school doom. Almost sounds like Cathedral for a moment if it weren't for those ghastly death-grunts and the blastbeats; it's a groovy crusher that's certainly a more accessible side of Pan.Thy.Monium's sound. That grooviness continues throughout Khaooohs, huge riffs combined with those spacey keyboards and swirling cosmic effects, while still slipping in some crushing death metal and those odd proggy moments. The saxophone kicks in pretty early on as well, jostling with the downtuned riffage towards the end of "Jag & Vem" in an effort to detour the song into a squall of total skronk.
     Not quite as demented as their debut, and slightly more conventional in the way the songs are structured and how the whole album flows together, Khaooohs still has plenty of that warped Beefheartian weirdness: vocals smeared into a weird flanged warble, songs suddenly breaking off into Zorn-esque saxophone carnage or awesome Simonetti-like synth-doom, that bleary sax honking and howling throughout the whole thing, with short tracks of brain-scrambling insanity tossed in like "Ekkhoeece III" that sounds like some crazed No Wave outfit performing a Harry Partch piece. And it just gets odder towards the end, throwing in sampled audience noise and the sludgepop crush of "Utsikt", which is probably the "catchiest" song that Pan.Thy.Monium ever gave us. And yet somehow, these guys never totally abandon that undercurrent of savage, rotten death metal undercurrent, which is really what makes this such an amazing piece of early 90s weirdness.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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