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stick to the music and not to my fragileimagination. This is in-your-face, explicitlydamaged, disturbed, maniacal, frightening,psycho-schizo twisted and viciouslytortured music, over-expanding itself to apoint where it can get barely bearable.Often I would take my headphones off andsay to myself: this is too much! Forgetabout your usual satanic, bloody misanthropia-inducedblack industrial metalband, because Choronzon makes Aborymlook cheesier than Hammerfall doing aballad with Elton John, to quote MetalCoven. Be prepared - you have been advised.Actually, don't let yourself be fooled by thefirst track on here, Ontological Anarchism,which is kind of a laid-back, weirdlymixed entrancing post-metal and pre-jazztribal introduction. One should considerit, most probably, as a sleeping lull beforethe upcoming natural disasters. Yes, thisalbums sounds like the purest chaos of alltimes. Even more so when Mr. Williams,for example on Human Rites Schizoanalysis,decides to carpet bomb his listenerswith faster-than-light drum programmingmethods, which include multi snares,multi bass drums and multi toms allblast-beating together but on differenttime-signatures, of course supportingsome sort of hard to decipher, immense,monstruous tornado-riff machineries thatno one happens to know how to turn off.And please never forget that when I usethe word "riff" within a choronzonic context,I'm always referring myself to thousandsand thousands of crypto-voices, allkinds of peripherical shimmering noises,industrial landscapes, mesmerising wavefrequencies and ritualistic formulas recitedover and over again in otherwordlyraspy trance states. While on The ProcessOf Conditioning, there even are traces of avoivodian punk approach underneath itall, which was by the way so cool to hear,the song just before it is all about a deconstructedpost-rock monster groove.You never know what's going to be in thenext corner with Mr. Williams.Using less and less colours and blurringeverything unto an oppressive, dark menacingambience, I would go as far as tosay that with Panic Pandemic, Choronzonhas expanded the notion of what metalriffing is supposed to be, and actually didbring it up to an atmo-sphere of abstractionwhere melodies and rythms are eitherpractically non-existent or have been inherentlynoisified to a grandeur unknown.Even compared to his own previous material,this album is more aggressive andalong the lines of a retro punk blackspeedy jazz-thrash on the edges of contemporarynoise music. In other words,once you discover every single instrumentaldetails that were subsumed by theoverall production, it is highly tempting tocompare his compositions to a thick fog orto a group of heavy clouds. Whereas Choronzonis using, as I said, so many elementalfragments of sounds as a startingpoint, he's transforming these into onepulsing, undetermined plasma of energy.Now isn't that what the science of magic isall about?The second part to Panic Pandemic is awell-done and multi-layered hour longambient, noise track, slowly emergingfrom a relatively calm drone to an evergrowingintensity, as once again, tribalpercussions take the lead and sound martialas the Apocalypse itself. You ought tohear this one in order to realise how artisticallytalented and varied is Choronzon,even more so now that ambient experimentationand electronic music in generalhave become the trend of the day in themetal circles; well, here comes a manwho's more than obviously been doing itfor a very long time. As a bonus to thefirst 333 buyers, Mr. Williams offered a100 or more pages book version of thealbum, thus delighting us all with manyexemples of his magnificent paintings andpoetry, which are all linked in some wayor another to the music recorded on PanicPandemic. Get in touch with the man andperhaps there are still some of these gemsleft in his well-hidden cryptic caves. Herecomes a one of a kind album, that's forsure. One can only hope that Choronzonwill soon enough come back even strongerbecause I truly believe that the scene ismore ready today for a comeback than it'sever been. Or is Choronzon forever condemnedto stay out of the scenographicscript? Once again, it's all up to you bynow.Oliver Side