Song of the day: “Myopic Empire” by Triptykon
For some time now I had wanted to include a song by the Swiss extreme metal masters Triptykon in our “song of the day” section but for some reason I had always been delaying this moment, waiting for it to be the right day. Today is that day precisely because I am going through sad and hard times in my personal life and Triptykon is one of the bands that accompany me at all times but that tend to play more often when I go through a rough patch in my emotional state. Perhaps the dense darkness and the constant nihilistic feeling that his music is able to transmit is what my body needs at precise moments and that void is something that both Melana Chasmata (2014, Century Media Records) and Eparistera Daimones (2010, Century Media Records) manage to fill.
Triptykon has only released the two albums that I’ve mentioned above as well as the EP Shatter (2010, Century Media Records) that complements his debut album Eparistera Daimones as well as the live album Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) that includes the three songs from Requiem that Tom G. Warrior began to take shape in 1987 with the release of the seminal Into The Pandemonium under the Celtic Frost label with Rex Irae and which he expanded on in 2006 with Winter on his tremendous last album Monotheist.
Myopic Empire is part of their debut album Eparistera Daimones, which in addition to opening a new path in the history of music, serves as a link between the last days of Celtic Frost after the release of Monotheist and the first days of Triptykon, combining the aggressiveness and sadness in long and forceful compositions where the feeling of emptiness and darkness is present at all times, leaving the speed of the first releases of Celtic Frost and Hellhammer in the background. The most striking thing about Triptykon is its qualities to stand out from other bands and offer something totally new where they manage to combine elements from other genres in a superlative way, including melancholic and beautiful passages such as the piano solo that stars in the central part of Myopic Empire by the multi -instrumentalist Fredy Schnyder (Nucleus Torn).
One of the recurring themes in Triptykon‘s compositions is precisely deception and betrayal as well as the terrible feeling of revenge that give life to such interesting songs as A Thousand Lies, In The Sleep Of Death, Abyss Within My Soul or the devastating Altar Of Deceit, all of them authentic masterpieces that will be burned into your soul and once you hear them you will never be able to let them go.
