Zyklon is a Norwegian industrial death metal/ blackened death metalband formed in 1998 by members of Norwegian black metalband Emperor(Samoth and Trym), and today have members of Myrkskog(Secthdamon and Destructhor) as well. The band was created in order to make up for the fact that Emperorwere no longer playing live. Despite Samoth being in a previous project called Zyklon-B, the two are not related; while Zyklon-B is the cyanide based gas notoriously used by the Nazi's in WW2 to kill more than 1 million people in concentration camps throughout Germany, Zyklon is, according to Samoth, a play on the word "cyclone". All of the band's lyrics are written by ex- Emperordrummer Faust who is currently a member of Casey Chaos's ( Amen) side project Scumand Italian industrial black metalband Aborym. Most of the lyrics revolve around themes like anti-religion, misanthropy and philosophy.
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