Pan.Thy.Monium

Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde/death metal band formed and led by Dag Swanö (brother to Dan Swanö) with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity. The group disbanded in 1996, after recording Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion.

Musical style

The music is quite strange and complex, with structure and length of songs recalling those of progressive metal. Other features include unconventional saxophone and violin passes, cryptic song names, various noises and bizarre sounds.

All the albums are conceptual albums which are supposed to tell about the life and death of Raagoonshinnaah, a sort of "chaos god", but actually the songs have no lyrics, instead incomprehensible gibberish sung in harsh, death metal-style growling (which corresponds to the assumed nature of the songs' protagonist and also parodies to some extent the so-called "metal epics"), because, as Swanö said later in an interview, they wanted the vocalist to use his voice as an instrument, although some songs include clean or digitized vocals.

Last known line-up

Derelict (Robert Karlsson): vocals
Winter (Benny Larsson): drums, percussion, violin
Day DiSyraah (Dan Swanö): bass, keyboards, effects
Mourning (Robert Ivarsson): rhythm guitar
Äag aka Tom Nouga (Dag Swanö): lead guitar, organ, baritone saxophone

Discography

Demos

...Dawn (1990, demo)

Albums

Dawn of Dreams (1992)
Khaooohs (1993)
Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)

EPs

Dream II (1991, EP)

Category:Swedish death metal musical groups
Category:Avant-garde metal musical groups
Category:Relapse Records artists
Category:Swedish heavy metal musical groups
Category:Musical groups established in 1990
Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1996

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