Even the best package tours usually have at least one weak spot, band-wise; but the Opeth/High on Fire/Nachtmystium tour, which Vince and I got to check out last week, is pretty much perfect from start to finish. And one of the reasons is - or guess now I should say "was" - the presence of Nachtmystium. [...]
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1. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 This was a masterpiece from the very first time it came out of the shrink-wrap and spun in my buddy's car to right now when I can't go a week without listening to the "Seasick" trilogy. From a combination of the growing maturity of the band and zealous [...]
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5. Nachtmystium - A Seed for Suffering (from "Instinct: Decay")This song made it on the list because it beat up every other song. A total full-throttle black metal blast of misanthropic hate. It's hard to imagine a song being able to kick more ass than this, not even in the sense of heaviness but also for speed, melody, and uniqueness. This track starts off blazing, a harsh black buzzing blur, ...
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Nachtmystium has been bugging me recently because I had to write a review of their latest album (which I've just did) but I wasn't fully at ease with this record. Instinct : decay is really a brillant record, no doubt about it. The production is raw but the riffs and the ideas shows a band that wants to make the genre evolves rather than obsesses over old ideas. It's funny how much a band can b...
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In a shocking turn of events, the Illinois psychedelic black metal band Nachtmystium have been banned from playing the Toyota Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta this past Saturday due to alleged ties to Nazism. Although the group has released material on Unholy Records, a label known to promote and adhere to Neo-Nazism, they claim the relation was business-oriented only and that Nachtmystium in no way ...
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Candlelight Records has confirmed the extension of their cooperation with Chicago-based Battle Kommand Records. Founded by Nachtmystium vocalist/guitarist Blake Judd in 2004, Candlelight will now look after the noted underground label's catalog around the globe; previously the deal was in place for only England and the European continent. Nachtmystium's highly regarded catalog will be [...] ...
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Nachtmystium’s Black Meddle, Pt. 1 was one of the best albums of 2008, ending up at the top or near the top of most MS staffers’ top ten lists that year. So, naturally, Nachtmystium fans everywhere have been asking the question, “Hey, where the fuck is Black Meddle, Pt. II?”Well, hey, guess what? The band [...]
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