I really appreciated the cleaner whispered vocals and found Bellum’s trademark screeching / goblin voice to be out of place in the song.

Despite Psyclon Nine lacking a certain finesse, their music is still pretty damned good.‘SEE YOU ALL IN HELL’ is a beautiful but harsh mixture of harsh industrial percussion and black metal guitars swooning in gritty background textures. The anti-Christian message is still alive and well and it’s one that has never gone away since their debut “Divine Infekt”. So, yes, often times I rolled my eyes at tracks titled such as ‘MONEY AND SEX AND DEATH’ or even “SEE YOU ALL IN HELL”. Psyclon Nine has found an audience and either wants to bask in their presence or they just have to stick with what they’re known for. Aesthetically speaking, there’s hardly a maturity to be found on “Less to Heaven”. While the sound design is good, it could have easily been stripped down to one to one-and-a-half minutes without suffering a loss.Less To Heaven by Psyclon NineOnce we get into the bulk of the album, however, things do start to look up.

It’s all a continual build-up with no pay-off. But whereas with “” we were given small snippets of tense, instrumental pieces that supplemented the theme of the album (such as with ‘ Consecration’ or even going to “We The Fallen” with ‘Of Decay (An Exit)’, listening to ‘BLOOD IN’ for three-minutes and eighteen-seconds isn’t quite as fantastical as you might expect. I believe that Bellum took lessons from his solo project to craft this opening track a haunting dark ambient track complete with piano.

But here we are in 2022 with Psyclon Nine’s brand-new album “Less to Heaven”. ‘BLOOD IN’ begins the album and it is a bit of a bore. Admittedly, Psyclon Nine did release an album in 2018 titled “Icon of the Adversary” but I never had the chance to finish a review for that one. A bit of a hiatus occurred for the next five years as founder Nero Bellum focused on his dark ambient, noise, and general soundtrack solo project (which has amassed quite a sweet collection of sample libraries, for those musicians out there). 2013 was last when we reviewed their album “” which received a very well-deserved perfect score of 10 out of 10.

Less To Heaven Industrial Metal Psyclon Nine Steven Gullotta It has been quite some time since we last poked around Psyclon Nine in full the once aggrotech and now full-on industrial metal project has received copious amounts of praise and controversies since then.

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