Band info

Band: Pyrocene Death Cult
EP: ‘The Pyrocene Extinction, Part I‘
Released May 31st, 2025
Genre: post black metal, DSBM, blackened doom
Location: Tio’tia:ke, Canada

Review

Pyrocene is a word coined in 2015 to name the geological age since humans invented fire. So you can imagine from the name Pyrocene Death Cult that this is a band speaking up about ecology and civilisation.

‘The Pyrocene Extinction, Part I‘ is the debut album of this Canadian band from Tiohtià:ke, bringing 4 tracks and four themes. From “Primitive Accumulation” to “Ecocide“, passing by “Settler Colonialism” and “Industrial Revolution“, their music is deeply rooted in decolonial struggles and ecopessimism. At ABMN, those values are held very strongly, and as the title indicates, this is only the first part of a two-part album, which we are already looking forward to.

Don’t be fooled by the limited number of tracks, as each of them easily reaches 8 minutes, going up to 13 minutes for “Industrial Revolution“. Using some samples from activists and news bulletins to introduce their tracks, they bring a nihilistic and depressive approach to music. Particularly struck by the final track “Ecocide” and its introduction about wildfires and our consumption of fossil fuel as a society, which you would expect to be followed by the most brutal black metal, but actually starts slowly, in a very doomy, instrumental aesthetic, and spoken words. You will find some inspiration from Ragana, Agriculture, and some of the early Darkthrone.

Other links and platforms:

BC: https://pyrocenedeathcult.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/pyrocenedeathcult/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pyrocenedeathcult