Territorial Metal

Pan.Thy.Monium

Band: Pan.Thy.Monium

Album: Khaooohs & Kon-Fus-Ion

Genre: Progressive Death Metal

Year: 1996

Country: Sweden

Tracklist:

1.The Battle of Geeheeb

2.Thee-Pherenth

3.Behrial

 4.In Rememberance

Pan-Thy-Monium is, hands down, the most intriguing project of Swedish metal wizard Dan Swanö. Swanö's other projects range from the straight-up death metal of Bloodbath to the prog-death of Edge of Sanity to the cheesy AOR-metal of Nightingale, but it's Pan-Thy-Monium that sees him at his most experimental and "out." This band combines the death metal aesthetic — distorted, crunching power riffs and throaty growls instead of conventional singing — with squealing sax and ethereal keyboards, all encased in a self-contained mythology around the god Raagoonshinnaah (I'm not making this up; the liner notes contain many lines of gibberish describing this mythology).