Mini-album from DIKASTERION – “Chaos as a New World”

Mini-album from DIKASTERION, Chaos as a New World, has been released by AMOR FATI PRODUCTIONS on September 1st, 2023 on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. 

Born from an evil alliance of North & South of Hellgium, DIKASTERION began preaching His unholy gospel in 2018, following the ancient path opened by such entities as Barathrum, Archgoat, Beherit, and Holy Death. The band’s earliest attacks – a demo in 2018 and a 7″ EP the following year, courtesy of AMOR FATI – featured a muscular & miasmic style of black metal, which is perhaps unsurprising given the appearance of erstwhile Possession drummer Pz. Kpfw. With a lineup shuffle that now sees the band returning to their original power-trio format, DIKASTERION present a strange twist of ancient black metal energies on their first longer-length record, the Chaos as a New World mini-album.

“This new release is our return after few years finding our way,” state the band. “It represents our will to open people’s mind about the world and also a tale about our personal life. We wrote four songs with the same lineup we had back during the demo times and decided to cover ‘Armies of the Night from Stromtrooper,’ a catchy hymn that fits perfectly with the band’s energy. The last song (‘Death’s Serenade’) is the UFO of the album. It’s inspired by the ‘Schiarazula Marazula,’ a medieval song deeply attached to our personal history and childhood. It also fits perfectly with the other songs’ lyrics and the panic waves of these last years. Actually, the songs have been recorded since early 2021 and the release was supposed to be two years ago, straight after the pandemic…”

Encompassing seven tracks in a swift half-hour, Chaos as a New World charges forward in a manner most Bathorian, all dungeonic chord-clang and orkish rasp…at least initially. From there, DIKASTERION turn the tables with triumphantly blown-out leads and songwriting that veers askew before going anthemic, perhaps best encapsulated in the aforementioned cover “Armies of the Night,” which the band here make their own. As Chaos as a New World plays on, the familiar and the foreign wage war against each other: BLACK METAL, in the very olde-world sense of it, this most definitely is, but the band’s note choices and production style suggest an auteur’s touch. Or, slash apart such fancy words and fully embrace the fact that black metal originally started as an unorthodox movement and that its early practitioners mostly wanted to herald Satan in a confrontational way – avant-garde wizards they were not. OR, perhaps DIKASTERION here reside somewhere in between those “truths,” never quite offering the straightest/simplest line but doing so confrontationally – and gleefully, devilishly so.

“DIKASTERION want to remain as underground as possible – well, as much as we can be nowadays,” conclude the band. “That’s why we don’t have any social media page like Facebook or Instagram and it’s difficult to find information online. We’re attached to the ‘rules’ and spirit metal was supposed to fight for, 20-30 years ago, and want to keep the ‘original’ flame burning. We don’t want to pretend to something we were too young to be part of, but show people it’s still possible, that it still exists. We believe! We worship intensity, chaos; we are a straight punch in the face of those who think metal is cool and funny. So, join us to have a sip of whisky, a good kicking line, fuck the modern world, fuck all those bands losing their way, fuck the trends, the politically correct, and see you in Hell!”