XYTHLIA is an Extreme Metal band based out of Minnesota, USA. With no information on their Facebook page, and very little to go on their Bandcamp page, we are going to have to let the music do the talking here. I, Voidhanger Records is known to have some of the most bizarre and unique Metal bands out there, and this should be no surprise. The album cover is exceptional...now let's see about the songs.

"Death Unyielding" opens the album. Well, I was right. This is totally bizarre music. The first track is only one-minute long, and borders on the Grindcore genre, with plenty of odd sounds. The first twenty seconds were just guitar shrieks. "To Defy Inevitability" is under two-minutes in length. The guitars are so thick here, you could not cut through them with a chainsaw. The vocals are quick angry bursts. It slows around the one-minute mark to explore some more ambient tones. "Initiation Void" is thirty seconds of nearly complete noise, without much in the way of structure.

"Tachyon Malnourishment" is a minute-and-a-half of shrieking guitars and flexible bass notes. I am starting to hear the genius of this composer. It's still very chaotic, but there is a method to his madness. "Antidream" is about forty-five seconds in length. Just some lone clean guitar notes and background atmosphere litter the landscape, which is dark and cold. "Ablation of Subconscious" is three minutes of the continued sound of the previous track, with a slow and heavy groove. Some eerie guitar tones come in around the half-way mark, but then it's back to that impossibly controlled chaos.

"Flesh Prison" is two minutes of intensity that could lay waste to every soul on earth. The guitars make sounds I did not know they were capable of making. The drums roll on incessantly. "Post-Ironic Indoctrination" is one minute of utter noise. Turn everything up to 11, and see what happens. There is little to no structure here whatsoever.

"Schrodinger's Foreskin" is three minutes of controlled chaos. Try counting the meter. You can't, because there isn't one. The guitars and vocals rage, and you can hear the dexterous bass notes amidst the chaos. Some structure rears its head but it is soon washed over by the thick drums rolling in quadruple time. "The Eye Bath" is another three minutes of strange, unique music. Guitars again make these eerie squeals up and down the fretboard, and it's over in the blink of an eye. "Mutagenic Growth" is another forty-five second of tortured chaos, without structure.

"Fester in the Nether" is a five-minute closing song, opening with tense clean guitar notes and the steady strikes of bass guitar. Pretty soon, the guitars begin their whirlwind pattern, and then comes the chaos. There are more notes fitted into this song than any other song I have ever heard before. Overall, in the Technical/Progressive/Death/Core/Grind genre, this album is unlike anything you have ever heard before, and will challenge your normative sense of songwriting, with chaotic but expertly controlled sense of meter and time, and bizarre sounds in support. I think anyone looking for something out of the box will find a pleasant surprise here, if it doesn't move you to break everything around you into bits and pulverize them into the earth.