YMMV / Pyrrhon

• Awesome Music: Pretty much everything they've done, arguably. The Mother of Virtues and What Passes for Survival in particular have received heaps of critical praise as some of the best modern death metal albums.
• Creepy Awesome: With their technically proficient, dissonant, downright evil-sounding musical approach and their literate, philosophical, cynical, misanthropic lyrics, they're probably one of Technical Death Metal's finest examples, which may be the main reason they get mentioned in the same breath with Gorguts so often.
• Even Better Sequel: The Mother of Virtues to An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master. What Passes for Survival has in turn been hailed as this to The Mother of Virtues.
• Funny Moments: The lyrics to "Goat Mockery Ritual", which make fun of edgy black and death metal bands who use gimmicky Satanic and fascist imagery to try and look cool.
  "Clown painted priest garbed for mummery
  Casts charm of +5 protection against women and minorities"
  • While it's kind of creepy, the spoken word sample at the beginning of "The Happy Victim's Creed" is also pretty funny.
  "I did what I did. You don't like it, you can kiss my ass."
• Growing the Beard: While they don't hate An Excellent Servant but a Terrible Master, The Mother of Virtues is effectively their true debut as far as they're concerned and the point where they truly solidified their sound.
• Nightmare Fuel: Almost all of their music, and a good deal of their lyrics.
  • The beginning of "The Happy Victim's Creed", an avalanche of discordant, jarring blast beats and feedback which suddenly morphs into the album's opening riff, which more or less perfectly sums up the disorienting Surreal Horror of the band's music.
  • "Eternity in a Breath", which starts with sparse, atonal sounding clean guitars that almost sound like something from Jandek, and builds to an apocalyptic climax with Moore's hellish screams, before finishing off with the sound of heavy, inhuman breathing.
• Signature Song: "The Happy Victim's Creed".
• Tear Jerker: Some of their lyrics can be incredibly depressing, especially "Motivational Speaker II". Musically, the middle portion of "Empty Tenement Spirit" is one of these. It's a beautiful and melodic Subdued Section that serves as a great reprieve from the lunacy of the rest of the album.