Just like another band I’ve recently revied, Full Devil Jacket this band, Pyogenesis has taken over a decade to release new material. And just like FDJ and even more so, this is a band I’d never heard of before.
Having checked up on this band, I found out this band was founded in 1991 in Stuttgart, and that they were in some sort the founders of the Gothic Metal Genre.
That may be true, but I didn’t her any Gothic metal on this album. Instead,the opening song, sounds more like death metal, with lots of grunts an growls. The next song seems to have been tapped from a different barrel, and sounds – to me – a bit like the Dropkick Murphy’s on steroids.
In the end, I didn’t really know what to think of this album. It has it’s ups and downs, contains a very eclectic mix of musical styles, yet doesn’t sound too bad. It’s not something I’d play regularly, but every now and again this is a welcome strange duck in the pond to listen to.