''Reinkaos'' (stylised as ''REINKAΩS'') is the third and final studio album by Swedish

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band Dissection. It was released through the band's own label Black Horizon Music, which they had formed "out of the need of taking charge of our own business and making things our own way, without compromise".''Interview for the Fans by the Fans''. ''Final Interview with Jon Nödtveidt''
accessed on 25 May 2013. ''Reinkaos'' is also available as autographed limited first edition: CD packed in exclusive embossed slipcase, limited to 1,001 hand-numbered copies signed by the band members; including the music video for "Starless Aeon" and a sticker.

Musical style and lyrics

The album is less influenced by traditional

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and closer to

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or traditional heavy metal''Dissection''. ''ReinkaΩs''. In: ''

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'', July 2006, p. 100. than Dissection's former albums, but, according to '' Decibel'' journalist Chris D., still "very much Nödtveidt and very much Dissection".Chris D.
''Justify Your Shitty Taste – Dissection's "Reinkaos"''
, 13 April 2011, accessed on 25 May 2013. The lyrics reflect the occult tenets of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order (MLO) and are "based on

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s and

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that have been linked into the lyrics to evoke the powers that they represent. Occult

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has been applied in the song writing process as a means of symbolically charging their structures. They have also been written inspired by scientific ideas such as string theory etc. The songs have all been written with the intention of using sounds and vibrations as an Anti-Cosmic tool and they have all been consciously created to be the vessels for these powers." In the

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''Liber Azerate'', released by the MLO, ''reinchaos'' is defined as "the return to chaos and acausal existence." (in Swedish)

Track listing

Personnel

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− vocals, guitars *

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− guitars, backing vocals * Tomas Asklund − drums

Guest appearances

* Brice Leclercq − bass * Additional vocals on "Maha Kali" by Nyx 218 * Additional backing vocals by

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and Whiplasher Bernadotte

References

Dissection (band) albums 2006 albums The End Records albums Melodic death metal albums {{2000s-death-metal-album-stub