Release Date August 21st, 2026
Format Digital
Genre Heavy Metal
Origin Canada
Triskelyon is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in 2021 by guitarist Geoff Waye, previously of Category VI. The band revolves around his guitar and a rotating cast. Dale Drew, Dwayne Pike, Pete Healey and Amanda Jackman split the vocals, Pike, Darrin Pope and Keith Jackman share the bass, and Raul Marques sits behind the drums on eight of the nine tracks, with Nicole Trinchero taking the last one. Thrash, speed, power and traditional metal run through the band's four earlier albums, among them "Downfall", "Artificial Insanity" and "Shattered Elysium", and they built its name in the underground.
"Metalmorphosis" is a digital only covers album. It places five new covers ahead of four taken from those earlier albums, with "Major Tom (Coming Home)" remastered. Michael Small mixed and mastered everything, which gives songs from different sessions a shared sound. The source list runs from the synth pop of Men Without Hats and Duran Duran to the arena rock of Bryan Adams and Billy Idol, with Tears For Fears, Men At Work, Pat Benatar, Platinum Blonde and Peter Schilling in between. Choruses and melodies stay intact under riffs, fast drums and Waye's solos, so the genre swap is the only twist and the arrangements add little beyond it.
Turning the synth bounce of "The Safety Dance" into a metal track is the riskiest call, and it comes off as pure fun. Waye is the one constant, with riffs and solos on all nine tracks. The vocals are where the album splits. Healey takes "The Safety Dance", "Overkill" and "Nobody's Business", Jackman takes "Heartbreaker", "It Doesn't Really Matter" and "Major Tom (Coming Home)", Drew sings "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" and "Hungry Like The Wolf", and Pike sings and plays bass on "Summer Of 69".
The voice changes on seven of eight transitions, so the album plays like a playlist from a rotating cast, and the order of five new tracks followed by four older ones leaves the seam in plain sight. 80s radio hits pulled into thrash, speed and power metal, and it is followed through on all nine tracks until "Major Tom (Coming Home)" closes at over five minutes. Nine metalized hits, mostly entertaining and surprising, held back by arrangements that stay close to the originals and a lineup that cuts the flow.
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