Tom G. Warrior (of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost fame) and his newer incarnation, Triptykon, will be performing at select festival dates in 2014 and will be embarking on a full European tour with reunited extreme metallers At The Gates in December 2014. The band has a new platter on offer: 2014's Melana Chasmata. One thing Warrior did well,Tom G. Warrior (of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost fame) and his newer incarnation, Triptykon, will be performing at select festival dates in 2014 and will be embarking on a full European tour with reunited extreme metallers At The Gates in December 2014. The band has a new platter on offer: 2014′s Melana Chasmata. One thing Warrior did well, right from Celtic Frost's beginning, was utilize fantastic, grade A+ cover art. H. R. Giger is a king of darkness and horror, and Melana Chasmata does not leave us wanting. Seeing some new Giger is wonderful, and it's pure killer cover art. Melana Chasmata, as a whole, does seem to mix industrial, death metal, thrash metal, and dark ambient textures fairly well. Exploratory and experimental, the band shuffles through riffs and production 'extras', seemingly searching for that magic formula that's going to "hit". The record does offer different tempos, textures, and feels per song, but they don't seem to have that same end point that those really fantastic genre manipulators tend to get. Meaning, the tunes seem to freely associate between various moods, but the record on the whole doesn't seem to have a goal: it seems to be self-actualizing. A listener languishes during [...]
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