Occult Medicine

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Occult Medicine
Yyrkoon-OccultMedicine.jpg
Studio album by Yyrkoon
Released 2004
Recorded November 2003
Genre Death metal
Length46:15
Label Osmose Productions, The End Records (USA)
Producer Jacob Hansen
Yyrkoon chronology
Dying Sun
(2002)		Occult Medicine
(2004)		 Unhealthy Opera
(2006)
Professional ratings
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Occult Medicine is the third full-length studio album by the French death metal band Yyrkoon. It was released in 2006 on Osmose Productions records.

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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Yyrkoon is a French death metal band. The main lyrical themes revolve around occultism, horror/fantasy, and members' personal philosophies. The name Yyrkoon is derived from the name of Elric of Melnibone's cousin in Michael Moorcock's fantasy series.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intro" – 0:16
  2. "Doctor X" – 3:56
  3. "Censored Project" – 4:35
  4. "Blasphemy" – 4:10
  5. "Occult Medicine" – 6:51
  6. "Revenant Horde" – 4:49
  7. "Reversed World" – 4:30
  8. "Trapped into Life" – 4:17
  9. "Surgical Distortion" – 4:37
  10. "Schyzophrenic Carnage" – 3:39
  11. "Erase the Past" – 4:35

Personnel

Dirk Verbeuren Belgian drummer

Dirk Verbeuren is a Belgian musician, most known for having been the drummer of prominent Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork with whom he has recorded five full-length albums and a live DVD/Blu-ray, and performed in Europe, The United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Russia and China as a headlining act between early 2004 and July 2016. As of 2016, he left Soilwork to join thrash metal band Megadeth, as a full-time member.

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References

  1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Yyrkoon Occult Medicine review". Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-10-28.
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