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NACHTMYSTIUM’S NEW RECORD IS A PSYCHADELIC BREW OF PROG-INFLUENCED BLACK METAL

 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 1:48pm by

NachtmystiumNachtmystium’s new record Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1, which drops June 10th on Century Media, is such a solid record that it’s sure to be on a lot of people’s year-end Top 10 lists, as Axl wrote about a month ago. If you’re one of those (like me) who are usually turned off by most black metal because of its sameness and lo-fi-for-the-sake-of-lo-fi production values, this is the record for you. If you like your metal heady and smart, this is the record for you. If you’re a fan of Pink Floyd, boy oh boy is this the record for you.

Any Floyd fan should recognize the homage in the album title immediately. Opening track “One of These Nights” is a sinister-sounding black metal interpretation of Meddle opening track “One of These Days.” The three-part, album-closing epic “Seasick” is an obvious nod to the 22-minute epic “Echoes” from that same album. And the comparisons go on from there.

Guitar World’s MetalKult blog is doing a 7-part “In The Studio” video series chronicling the recording of Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1. The first entry features the band members talking about the role of mushrooms and beer in the band’s writing process, as well as some other studio shenanigans and behind-the-scenes footage.

This is a fucking fantastic album. You owe it to yourselves to pick it up on June 10th.

-VN

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  • http://hookssobig.blogspot.com Wayne

    I….cannot….fucking….WAIT…to hear this.

  • http://lennui-melodieux.blogspot.com Randal Graves

    I second that. Plus anything that wads up the panties of the troo kvlt fuckers is always a good thing.

  • http://www.playswithcomputers.com EthR

    Nachtmytsium’s new record Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1

    hunh?
    Spellcheck on register 666! Spellcheck on register 666!

  • http://hookssobig.blogspot.com Wayne

    Spellcheck? On what part? Meddle? You do know that’s a Pink Floyd album, right, and that Nachtmystium’s album is largely an homage to that record? Not to sound snooty, but it’s mentioned in the review.

  • i do like pink floyd but ….

    this is not an homage. they blatantly rip-off Pink Floyd. bands should experiment but not the case here.

  • Rob

    The only thing I know aout Nachtmystium is that they were on Vinnland Winds, a Nazi/White-Power black metal and folk music label, home to such charming individuals as Rob Darken of Graveland and the loveable anti-semites Grand Belial’s Key. I say “were” because the label owner got killed (Bonus!) by a rival white-power douchebag (anti-bonus!). I don’t know if the dudes are Nazis or not but being on that kind of label can’t bode well for them.

    Plus, Pink Floyd only made one good record, a little number you might have heard of called Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Oh, you haven’t heard of it? Well then you. sir, are a poseur writ large.

  • tr00kvltbuttsecks

    Just so you know:

    -They were never on Vinnland Winds, I’ve search far and wide trying to find proof of this.
    Mortibund MAYBE, but that label is a mismash of everything.
    I suggest you get your facts straight before making yourself look like a complete moron in the future.

    -They are not Neo Socialist (Nazi/Racist) Black Metal.They caught some flak for play a Burzum song and thats about it.

    For the record I am not racist and I am an advocate of all people from around the world, so I’m not.

    -

  • David

    Got this in the mail last night. GREAT album… very much a “blackened” metal album, but insanely catchy as well.

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  • Rob

    I never suggested they were Nazis, just that they were on a Nazi label. I even said so in the comment. There are tons of black metal bands who seem to run in the same circles with white power music. You seem awfully offended by it, though. Are you in Nachtmystium?

    But I like the music, this record is now the first one of theirs I have heard. Good lookin’ out cone again, Metalsucks.