Pan.Thy.Monium

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Pan.Thy.Monium is a Swedish avantgarde/death metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity.

The music is quite strange and complex, with structure and length of songs recalling those of progressive metal. Other features include unconventional saxophone and violin passes, cryptic song names, various noises and bizarre sounds.

All the albums are conceptual albums which are supposed to tell about life and death of Raagoonshinnaah, a sort of "chaos god," but actually the songs have no lyrics, instead incomprehensible gibberish sung in harsh, death metal-style growling (which corresponds to the assumed nature of the songs' protagonist and also parodies to some extent the so-called "metal epics"), because, as Swanö said later in a interview, they wanted the vocalist to use his voice as an instrument, although some songs include clean or digitized vocals.

The group disbanded in 1996, after recording "Khaoohs & Kon-Fus-Ion", which seemingly featured the death of their main hero.

[edit] Band members

  • Derelict (Robert Karlsson): vocals
  • Winter (Benny Larsson): drums, percussion, violin
  • Day DiSyraah (Dan Swanö): bass, keyboards, effects
  • Mourning (Robert Ivarsson): rhythm guitars
  • Äag aka Tom Nouga (Dag Swanö): lead guitars, organ, baritone saxophone

[edit] Discography

  • ...Dawn (1990, demo)
  • Dream II (1991, EP)
  • Dawn of Dreams (1992)
  • Khaooohs (1993)
  • Khaooos & Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)
  • Dawn Of Dreams + Khaooos (2003, re-release)
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