Band info
Band: Lykofos
Album: ‘Lykofos‘
Genre: blackened crust
Released: June 25th, 2025
Location: Greece
Review
Coming from Corinth (Greece), our company today brings the bittersweet taste of the worn-out, saddened but hopeful spirit or blackened crust to the table. Lykofos released this brilliant self-titled debut album on June 25, and we couldn’t celebrate this entrance more than by having the chance to enjoy it, mourn with them, and pour our hearts out with such a listen. In 6 songs, Lykofos (“Twilight”) show off a common epic and grandiose compositions style from many other Greek artists in our circles, clad in their own flavor within the frame of the styles they’ve taken to their own ground, in the shape of groovy, heavy, and depending on the song more black metal than crust or more crust than black metal -in regards of pacing and aggression-, with a really standing out melodic work.
The album kicks off with “Written in Red“, a song inspired by Voltairine de Cleyre, an open anthem not just to the historical struggle of anarchists and all folks under the yoke of power, but also a call to direct action and bring a voice to inspire our hearts today, from the root of our principles to the current of the horrors we live with -a call to end the cycle let’s say, if we interpret their logo and the visuals of a cut off Ouroboros serpent as a symbol to such-. After this first incredible song, the burst comes straight to you with another, more fiery energy. Spearheaded by the deep guttural voice work of the main singer, each song has a flow of its own with lower and higher moments with a chain of memorable riffs, melody bridges and bass lines building an atmosphere tangled between the likes of Downfall of Gaia with Spectral Lore, exploring the dire reality we face everyday and the panorama of tragedies we are watching and enduring, that promise to get only worse, with only our collective resistance in front of it all. A highlight of this year for sure, Lykofos will leave no one indifferent.
Other links and platforms:
BC: https://lykofos.bandcamp.com/
FB: https://s.42l.fr/ZYaRjisC
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@LYKOFOSBANDGR