Country: Spain
Genre: Avant garde black/doom metal
Full length: Delyrio
Format: Digital, vinyl, CD
Label: Cyclic Law, Cavsas
Release date: July 10, 2026
Pylar creates chaos to establish order, or possibly to make way for more chaos. Since their inception in 2012 (the year when the world was supposed to end according to Mayan prophecy) they’ve released a steady succession of full-length albums, averaging one per year, plus a demo compilation in 2018 titled “Orygenes (Demos 2012-13).”
Exploring the existential collapse of our perception when visiting the vast, seemingly indifferent cosmos and learning that nothing out there is what we expected, the band delves into the metaphysical in a way that’s as unpredictable as the psychological horrors they introduce us to. Their latest full-length, “Delyrio,” fragments our last remaining concepts of reality, systematically degenerating structure and rationality into irrational dislocation and delirium. It reveals all we considered real to be little more than hallucination.
A constantly shifting and undulating fusion of black metal, doom metal, ambient, industrial, and psychedelic rock sets the scene for a concept that mixes fantasy and realism, one part speculative, one part philosophical. Dense and unstable, with an atmosphere more hallucinatory than immersive, it dissipates genre boundaries into the void it creates. The colossal tracks Pylar constructs for “Delyrio” are less about progression and more about alchemy; less about growth and more about transformation. What it’s transforming into is hard to say, as this album sounds like a process still underway rather than an end in itself.
From their earliest albums to this one, Pylar has always taken their time to manifest the subtle variations of their work, building rituals of their songs through texture and tactile vibrations. The epic-length pieces that emerge from their inspired songwriting resemble contained pockets of spatial infinity, capable of continued transformation and transmutation if allowed to expand. And who knows what chaos could arise from this? Only by viewing the big picture, the one that’s been forming since the beginning, may there be an answer.
The band tends to make each song sound like an expansion of the imagery of the previous track, with each album increasingly building upon what was experienced before. Each record is a deeper dive into the same interchanging universe, where everything cycles into neurosis and entropy. Perhaps each album should be listened to back-to-back for a fuller understanding of where they’re headed with “Delyrio.”
The fragmentation of our perception on this album stems from what could have been a long and meticulous odyssey through the deterioration of perceptibility, leaving behind something far worse than desolation. Rawer, more transitive, and more chaotic than usual, even for this band, this album speaks of every atom and molecule in the universe being dismantled from within, their death cries reaching outward and high into heaven. A close approximation might be portals to hell opening wide throughout every reach of the universe, something far beyond Armageddon, as implied in many popular horror movies exploring the end of the world.
Pylar’s full body of work is not for everyone, but receptive minds may well come to appreciate the visions they’re creating. –Dave Wolff
Lineup:
Ibb-ib’thu The Renegade: Vocals
Linea Serpentinata: Vocals
Bar-Gal” Guitar, synthesizer, Ley de Salazar
Mesagret: Bass
Lingua Alauda: Violin
Gamaboz: Drums, percussion
Track list:
1. Aροτεοsis
2. Adoración
3. Enajenación
4. Enardecimiento
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