Album Review: Cytotoxin – Biographyte (Self Released)

Following the success of their critically acclaimed ‘Nuklearth’ in 2020, Cytotoxin return with their highly anticipated fifth studio album, ‘Biographyte’. The German nuclear death metal band take listeners deep into the haunting aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, set for release on April 11th, 2025.

Chernobyl continues to be one of the most fascinating, and terrifying, moments in human history and the events surrounding it continue to inspire art in many different forms. Cytotoxin might not be the first to make music about the disaster, but they’re certainly the first to make music about the disaster that sounds so dangerous. This is death metal, technically charged and radioactively intense, but death metal with stories to tell.

Featuring elven mean meltdown encouraging metal efforts, Biographyte, at its core, is exceptionally noisy and emphatically destructive. Be under no false impressions, even though the detail within each track can move the listener in more emotive ways, the delivery is done in unforgivingly savage fashion. It just so happens that Cytotoxin’s song-writing skills, progressive imagination, and ability to fully realise a vision is on point, so extreme or not, Biographyte appeals.

Especially as it’s an album with variety. From utterly manic and meaty efforts like Hope Terminator, Behind Armored Doors, The Everslave and the Transition of the Staring Dead. Liable to melt your face off and leave you hacking up blood.

To dramatic epics like the title track, which honours the bravery of the firefighters involved in the immediate aftermath, the sharpness of Bulloverdozed, and the pulverising poignancy of From Bitter Graves, all of which take on a whole new form of heaviness.

To creative efforts that have a whole different style of technical intensity, while being unmercifully brutal, such as Condemnesia and Eventless Horizon. Hell, there’s even a chilling and haunting melodic piece right around the middle called Deadzone Desert and a penultimate piece called Revelation that tells one hell of a story. In case you’ve not realised it yet, this album is really bloody special. Extreme metal with so much replay value.

Cytotoxin – Biographyte Track Listing:

1. Hope Terminator
2. Condemnesia
3. Behind Armored Doors
4. Biographyte
5. Deadzone Desert
6. The Everslave
7. Eventless Horizon
8. Bulloverdozed
9. Transition of the Staring Dead
10. Revelation
11. From Bitter Rivers

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