Debut full-length album of those aggressive and non-compromising
blasphemers from Finland. Same in-your-face attitude as on the debut EP
last year, more anger!
Kyy ([ky?], meaning "viper" in Finnish) is a black metal band founded in
2013 in Lahti, Finland. Formed by five entities, the black viper’s sole
purpose is to spawn an antithesis to existence of the universe and to
serve the Great Unknown. As such, Kyy's debut EP, Travesty of Light,
consisted of four blood-drenched tracks recorded during the
autumn/winter of 2014 and which then led to a record deal with Saturnal
Records. The EP saw the day of light on the 17th of August 2015
worldwide. The date also introduced the band's first live performances,
the first of which took place at Rooster Death Fest in their hometown of
Lahti.
Now, with that experience in the studio and onstage buffering their
ambitions yet further, Kyy are prepared to unleash their grand
statement: their debut album, suitably (and ambitiously) titled Beyond
Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death. Whilst remaining very much
sonically the same as they were on Travesty of Light, the Kyy of Beyond
Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death is a bolder and more brazen version
of the band. Here, the quintet's straightforward and uncompromising
black metal is given both more in-your-face rock 'n' roll attitude and
yet also a deeper concentration/consecration of esoterica, bursting at
the seams with scathing 'n' robust energy shot through with the chaos
magick of Satanism and the Left-Hand Path.
Truly, it is a sound that twists and turns much as the serpent, striking
and recoiling and striking again with an almost-methodical grace, yet
nearly submitting to beautiful, terrible disorder. Armed with a
production that expertly balances clarity and crush, rawness and a regal
bearing, Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death takes Kyy to the
very maw of the Beyond and then back - and surely the listener, as well.
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