History Music / Pyrrhon

Pyrrhon is an avant-garde DeathMetal band from Brooklyn. They play a highly chaotic, technical, and dissonant form of death metal very comparable to other bands in the genre like Music/{{Gorguts}} and Music/{{Ulcerate}}. They are also notable for vocalist Doug Moore's highly poetic SophisticatedAsHell lyrics, which are mostly extremely cynical and incisive explorations of philosophy and social issues. The band has so far released three full length albums and three [=EPs=], all to increasing critical acclaim.

* GreenAesop: Not explicitly, but environmental destruction is one of the many human evils they write about.

* PurpleProse: Most of their lyrics, though they're much better written than most examples of this trope.

* SurrealHorror: A lot of their music amounts to this, with its very disorienting, nightmarish feel.

* WretchedHive: Urban decay is a recurring theme of theirs, heavily influenced by their living in Brooklyn. The lyrics listed under CrapsackWorld are an example of this perspective, as is "Statistic Singular".

* AscendedMeme: Alex Cohen started the experimental grind project Chad Thundercock with Dylan [=DiLella=] and various other contributors after an encounter with a particularly unpleasant individual spawned an in-joke that gave him a spark of inspiration.

* {{Eagleland}}: A strong, ''strong'' type 2 is portrayed in all their songs. Moore even described "The Unraveling" suite on ''What Passes for Survival'' as being "a lament for the vision of America I read about in history and civics books as a kid."

* SophisticatedAsHell: They employ swear words sometimes in their lyrics, but it's usually more along the lines of PrecisionFStrike.

* GenreShift: Several of their songs could qualify as grindcore, and "Eternity in a Breath" a detour into post-metal.

* MadOracle[=/=]CrazyHomelessPeople: "The Oracle of Nassau", written from the point of view of an unmedicated, mentally ill homeless person who truly believes in the profundity of his ramblings and is frustrated by what he sees as the rest of the world's inability to grasp his revelations.

* TheBigRottenApple: "New Parasite".

* EpicRocking: Some of their songs are pretty long. Examples include "A Terrible Master" (8:04), "White Flag" (9:42), "Eternity in a Breath" (8:17), "The Mother of Virtues" (10:36), and "Empty Tenement Spirit" (12:03).

* MinisculeRocking: Some of Pyrrhon's songs are short enough to approach {{Grindcore}} territory. Most of the songs on ''Running Out of Skin'' are around 2 minutes long, and then there's "The Unraveling" suite on ''What Passes for Survival'', whose three songs put together aren't even as long as the next track, "Empty Tenement Spirit". "The Oracle of Nassau" is only 1:26 in length, and their shortest song, "Ashes to Alveoli", is only 33 seconds.

* SignatureStyle: Dissonant, mathy riffing, lots of unusual time signatures, abrupt changes in tempo, occasional clean passages that sound borderline atonal, and manic vocals with surprisingly erudite lyrics.

* VillainSong: "Cancer Mantra" is an unusual example in that it's basically an ode to a tumor.

* DividedStatesOfAmerica: "Balkanized".

* MadOracle: "The Oracle of Nassau".

* VillainSong: "Cancer Mantra" is an unusual example in that it's basically an ode to a tumor.
* WarIsHell: "Balkanized".

''And take my reality into your heart''

* MinisculeRocking: Some of Pyrrhon's songs are short enough to approach {{Grindcore}} territory. Most of the songs on ''Running Out of Skin'' are around 2 minutes long, and then there's "The Unraveling" suite on ''What Passes for Survival'', whose three songs put together aren't even as long as the next track, "Empty Tenement Spirit". "The Oracle of Nassau" is only 1:26 in length.

* VillainSong: "Cancer Mantra" is an unusual example in that it's basically an ode to a tumor.

* TakeThat: "Goat Mockery Ritual" is one of these to extreme metal bands (in particular, black metal bands) who appropriate Satanic and Nazi-esque imagery purely for shock value without understanding what those symbols really mean or even living up to their own hype.
* TechnicalDeathMetal: Of the weird, dissonant Gorguts variety.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very, ''very'' far on the cynical end.

** "Empty Tenement Spirit" suddenly cuts off, leaving us with what sounds like heavy chains being slammed against the floor again and again before the song finally ends.

--> ''"Always keep growing and changing''\\

* BreatherEpisode: Subverted more often than not, as usually when they slow down from their usual sonic assault it only makes things exponentially creepier.

* FakeOutFadeOut: "The Happy Victim's Creed" features one where it sounds like the song abruptly ends, before abruptly roaring back in for the final verse.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The cover of ''The Mother of Virtues'' shows a featureless, female humanoid figure covered in eyes and surrounded by a swarm of flies.

* BoleroEffect: "Eternity in a Breath" builds from sparse, creepy guitar work up to an utterly apocalyptic climax.
* BreatherEpisode: Subverted more often than not, as usually when they slow down from their usual sonic assault it only makes things exponentially creepier.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Goat Mockery Ritual" is one of these to extreme metal bands (in particular, black metal bands) who appropriate Satanic and Nazi-esque imagery purely for shock value without understanding what those symbols really mean or even living up to their own hype.

* UncommonTime: Used quite often to add to the general impenetrability of their sound.

* SignatureStyle: Even in the realm of avant-garde death metal, Pyrrhon's sound is pretty unmistakable. Expect dissonant, mathy riffing, lots of unusual time signatures, abrupt changes in tempo, occasional clean passages that sound borderline atonal, and manic vocals with surprisingly erudite lyrics.

* HumansAreBastards: Arguably the main theme of the band.
* LyricalDissonance: "Goat Mockery Ritual" is no less fearsome than the band's usual material, but the lyrics are a sarcastic attack on overly edgy bands in the metal community rather than the band's usual condemnations of modern society.

''Fuck off, you didn't live through any of this''

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Alluded to in "The Invisible Hand Holds a Whip".
* CrapsackWorld: Pyrrhon's general point of view in their lyrics, which is made all the more disturbing because it's pretty much all based on real life.

* MetalScream: Doug Moore employs a mixture of traditional death growls and high pitched shrieks reminiscent of black metal. He also sometimes uses more traditional singing, albeit very harsh and guttural singing, like on "Tennessee".
* MinisculeRocking: Some of Pyrrhon's songs are short enough to approach {{Grindcore}} territory. Most of the songs on ''Running Out of Skin'' are around 2 minutes long, and all three songs in "The Unraveling" suite are one to two minutes long each.