Zyklon-B was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Black Metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band founded in 1995.

The band’s members were Tomas "Samoth" Thormodsæter Haugen

Samoth

Samoth is a prominent musician and multi-instrumentalist in the Norwegian black metal scene. He was well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor, as well as his formation of the death metal band Zyklon...

 (guitar

Electric guitar

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 and bass

Bass guitar

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) and Vegard "Ihsahn" Sverre Tveitan

Ihsahn

Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

 (keyboard

Electronic keyboard

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) from Emperor

Emperor (band)

Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad

Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad

Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad , was born on June 28, 1973 in Øyer, Oppland, Norway, and is the drummer in the black metal bands Satyricon and 1349....

 (Drums

Drum kit

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) from Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

 and Björn "Aldrahn" Dencker Gjerde (vocals) from Dødheimsgard

Dødheimsgard

Dødheimsgard is a Norwegian heavy metal band formed in 1994. Dødheimsgard was originally a black metal band, but 1999's 666 International saw them change into an experimental and avant-garde / industrial metal band. In 2000, they shortened their name to DHG...

. Their lyrics deal mainly with death, apocalypse and warfare. The band recorded only one EP

Extended play

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; other versions of the featured songs were featured on split releases with Mayhem

Mayhem (band)

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

 and Swordmaster.

The band Zyklon

Zyklon (band)

Zyklon was a Norwegian blackened death metal band formed in 1998 by Samoth and Trym of Emperor, along with former members of Myrkskog. Their style has been defined as modern death metal with black and industrial undertones...

 featuring members of Zyklon-B is often thought to be the same band, which is wrong.
The name refers to Zyklon B

Zyklon B

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, a gas used in gas chamber

Gas chamber

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s during the Holocaust. However, the band states that "Zyklon-B is not related to any political or racial preference".

Discography

• Blood Must Be Shed EP (1995)
  1. "Mental Orgasm" – 2:54
  2. "Bloodsoil" – 2:25
  3. "Warfare" – 5:35

• Blood Must Be Shed / Wraths of Time Split EP with Swordmaster (1996)
• Necrolust / Total Warfare Split single with Mayhem (1999)