They originally disbanded in 2010, but reformed a year later, and have been active since. Starting in 2005, under the label from Melotropolis Records, Psyclon Nine started adopting a black metal influence as well, which first became evident with the release of "INRI". They released their debut, "Divine Infekt", in 2003, which proved to be a big hit in the electro-industrial underground scene. There isn’t a name for this music yet, but I am going to call it technogrind – it has the electronic harshness of aggrotech but it has the blistering fury that only metal can give and it provides an experience I haven’t had since the days of Marc Heal and Cubanate, only even more spectacularly ultraviolent, psychopathic and apocalyptic.Psyclon Nine started out as a guitar-driven industrial rock band in 1999 under the influence of KMFDM and Ministry, but then decided to turn towards aggrotech and industrial music, influenced by Suicide Commando, Velvet Acid Christ and Wumpscut. I loved every last laser beam song on this album. Therefore, considering I have been using colourful exposition, you would expect me to judge it to be good, yes? You’d be wrong. And it will smile a bloodied, razorblade smile at you and defile the fuck out of your corpse. Then it will hold you down and watch the light fade from your eyes as you die. This record is one small step away from ripping your fucking throat out with its teeth and drinking your blood in great, desperate gulps. Only The Berzerker has ever come close to the level of unalloyed, acid spitting fury on this album. I have seldom heard such repressed violence in music. It’s a hard edged, visceral scream that seems to take actual form before burying itself to the hilt in your head.
It’s bleaker than Morecambe and the vocals from Nero Bellum could flay the skin cleanly from your face. It’s claustrophobic and a damned uncomfortable listening experience.
This is not music this is recorded evil and preserved murder. It is the perfect amalgamation of the two most violent musical genres in the world and they are aiming straight between your fucking eyes, because you deserve to die. It’s utterly murderous aggrotech twinned with drums that sound like heavy artillery and razor guitars that would take your head cleanly off your shoulders if you got too close. So, what does it sound like, I heard literally no one cry? It’s the sound of the end of the world. It’s colder than the cold shoulder you’d get off your wife when she discovered you pleasuring her two sisters and her mother simultaneously with an inflatable marmoset and a number of Mars bars. It’s colder than taking your mother in law to the South Pole and not lending her your jacket. It’s a bleak, grey skied, sub zero beast of a record is Icon Of The Adversary. It’s a biomechanical monster that spits face melting acid and could rip you in two just by flexing its muscles. They were a fine terror EBM/ aggrotech band, but they only really became of supreme interest to me when they released Crwn Thy Frnicatr, as that was when they discovered that aggrotech and metal were perfect bedfellows and decided to amalgamate the two. 'Zyklon-B' for the horror the mankind is able to do, 'Psy' represent the mental abuse and you say that 'Nine' is the number of the beast, though its the common opinion that 6 is the beasts number. They were a suggestion because I had listened to some Suicide Commando on Spotify once and I liked what I heard so I got a copy of Divine Infekt and I was off. Psyclon Nine are interesting insofar as they started out as a pure aggrotech band, which is how they came to my dubious attention. It’s a grim, black, oil stained, mechanical flaying machine composed of wicked steel blades, roaring engines and death by being sliced into tiny, quivering pieces. This makes Psyclon Nine a magnificent choice to listen to as my desire for vengeance against those who have wronged me and my furious anger grows… This is a vicious, serrated edged weapon of war rather than a musical record.
I am becoming increasingly drunk and I am becoming more nihilistic by the second.