Khlyst -
Chaos Is My Name is probably my favorite Drone Doom Metal album outside of Boris's
Feedbacker. A brief review from yours truly:
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Khlyst's 2006 opus is an ever-changing, never-predictable beast. The eight barely-titled tracks cover a lot of ground, showing a band alternating between harsh vocal and intensely distorted guitar play and a more ominous form of drone with more variety that was strangely reminiscent of Grouper if she joined a doom cult. The album takes awhile to fully sink in, but once a groove is established, it really takes on a new life. The initially jarring transitions, showing off a slow ambiance bridging the gaps between nearly intolerable vocal sessions turns into a highly refined experimental comparison of two forms of music one wouldn't expect to find on one album together. By track seven, the whole thing had taken on a life of its own for me, and I couldn't resist calling it one of my "canon" (whatever the hell that means) selections.
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