#15: NACHTMYSTIUM – ASSASSINS: BLACK MEDDLE, PART 1
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 5:20pm by MetalSucksSPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN OF 1000 TIMES YES
We recently polled a wide array of musicians, managers, publicists, label reps, and writers from within the world of metal to find out what they thought the 21 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century So Far have been. Eligible albums were released between January 1, 2000 and April 1, 2009. Each panelist turned in a ballot, with their #1 album worth 21 points, their #2 album worth 20 points, and so on and so forth. The ballots are now in and we’ll be counting down one album a day until we reach #1. Today we present the #15 album, coming in with a total of 117 points…
Nachtmystium, Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 (Century Media, 2008)
Blake Judd – Vocals/Lead Guitars
Jeff Wilson – Rhythm Guitars
Zion Meagher – Bass
Tony Laureano – Drums
Produced by Nachtmystium & Sanford Parker
Is it OK to like this band because “hipsters” hypothetically like this band?
Is it OK to like a metal band that agreed to play something called the “Scion Rock Fest,” even though they got asked to leave?
Is an integral part of enjoying this band pretending you heard of them before they played in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with SunnO))), in 2005?
Do people create distinctions between “regular” metal fans and “hipster” metal fans because they feel the concept of “outsider status” threatened?
Is this album not “kvlt” enough because Century Media sends out promotional e-mails?
Is this album not “kvlt” enough because Century Media sends out promotional e-mails to indie-rock journalists?
Is “we haven’t been distributed by an NSBM label in eight years” an acceptable excuse for a metal band?
Why do a bunch of record-buyers and indie-rock message-boarders raised on punk rock values think it’s somehow “cool” or “edgy” or “interesting” to still give money to NSBM labels and/or deify unrepentant racists like Varg Vikernes?
Can an album like this succeed in killing the preconceived notions of black metal fans — or just open up a band to indie-rock fans that never had any notions about black metal to preconceive?
Is calling this album the best black metal record of the decade like calling an OutKast record the best rock album of the year?
Is this record good because of or in spite of how it pushes the boundaries of black metal?
Is that a saxophone?
-Christopher R. Weingarten
Christopher R. Weingarten is a freelance journalist who writes for outlets like Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Revolver and Decibel – but probably only for the approximately six more months when “magazines” and “paying web outlets” still exist. Watch him review 1,000 new records over Twitter at twitter.com/1000TimesYes.
Download Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 from Amazon!
THE LIST SO FAR:
#16 – Machine Head, The Blackening
#18 – Lamb of God, New American Gospel
#20 – Shadows Fall, The War Within
#21 – Slipknot, Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
THE PANEL OF VOTERS
Chris Adler, Lamb of God
Dan And, Bison B.C.
Ben Apatoff, Apatoff for Destruction/Metal Injection
Jason Bittner, Shadows Fall
Tim Brennan, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Freddy Cai, Painkiller Magazine
Ian Christe, Bazillion Points
Reverend David J. Ciancio, Yeah! Management
Betsey Cichoracki, Relapse Records
Paul Conroy, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
J. Costa, Thy Will Be Done
Dallas Coyle, ex-God Forbid/Coyle Media
Doc Coyle, God Forbid
CT, Rwake
Anso DF, MetalSucks/Hipsters Out of Metal!
Vince Edwards, Metal Blade Records
Charles Elliott, Abysmal Dawn/Nuclear Blast Records
Brian Fair, Shadows Fall
Leo Ferrante, Warner Music Group
D.X. Ferris, author 33 1/3: Reign in Blood/Freelance Journalist
Mike Gitter, Roadrunner Records
Nick Green, Decibel
Matt Grenier, August Burns Red
Anthony Guzzardo, Earache Records
Kevin Hufnagel, Dysrhythmia
Mark Hunter, Chimaira
Steve Joh, Century Media
EJ Johantgen, Prosthetic Records
Kim Kelly, Metal Injection/Hails & Horns/Freelance Journalist
Josh “The J” Key, Psychostick
Jason Lekberg, Epic Records
Eyal Levi, Daath
Bob Lugowe, Relapse Records
Matt McChesney, The Autumn Offering
Jake McReynolds, Psychostick
Marc Meltzer, The Syndicate
Josh Middleton, Sylosis
Matt Moore, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Vince Neilstein, MetalSucks
Sammy O’Hagar, MetalSucks
Anton OyVey, MetalSucks/Bacon Jew
Rob Pasbani, Metal Injection
Alex Preiss, Psychostick
Carlos Ramirez, NoiseCreep/Universal Music Group
Brian Rocha, Fresno Media USA
Jeremy Rosen, Roadrunner Records
Axl Rosenberg, MetalSucks
Satan Rosenbloom, MetalSucks/Cerebral Metalhead
David Bee Roth, MetalSucks
Jason Rudolph, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Amy Sciarretto, Roadrunner Records/NoiseCreep
Carl Severson, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Gary Suarez, MetalSucks/No Yoko No/Brainwashed
Geoff Summers, The End Records/Crustcake
Bram Teitelman, The Syndicate/Metal Insider
Alisha Turull, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Christopher R. Weingarten, 1000TimesYes/Freelance Journalist
HELL YES
Tim is a poser.
tim sucks…i thought axel or vince would do these reviews…
fuck this NSBM shit….
stop bitching…black metal is like emo…same shit different day
ugh, how many girls did you daterape when you were a football player in highschool?
Emo kids scrape themselves with a pair of scissors and call it cutting as a desperate cry for attention. Black metal guys stab you in the head 29 times, eat a piece of your brain, immolate your corpse, and then disappear into the gloomy forest.
HELL yeah!!! *Dissapears into gloomy forest*
HAHA
i dint understand a word of what that guy was saying. but yea the first none mainstreamish record on the list. ill have to check it out
Well here is the first non mainstream. So everyone can quite crying.
quit
Here’s another rhetorical:
Could this review be any more poorly written?
Can you be any more right?
Could this review have been any more written by Chandler Bing?
Could you be any gayer for using that reference?
nope
Never heard of them.
Good, but is it one of the best black metal albums in the last ten years? I don’t know…
I’d personally pick one of Enslaved’s albums over this… Isa or Verterae.
or Summoning’s Oath Bound, IMO the best black metal album this decade.
Ok, can anyone tell me something MEANINGFUL about this album? I haven’t heard it (yet), and this… comment/review/whatever isn’t really helpful.
it is one of the few black metal albums out there more concerned with sounding good and not being kvlt.
Thanks.
http://hipstersoutofmetal.blogspot.com/2008/12/hoom-year-in-metal-2008-grey-mystium.html
You haven’t heard anything meaninful about it because it SUCKS. generic, boring black metal with some random lazer beam sounds. Thats IT.
Fuck Yeah
I can’t stand this album, I find it so incredibly boring…
Ahh well, nevermind…
EXACTLY. B-O-R-I-N-G.
Another number checked, another number closer to St. Anger being #1!
*Crosses fingers*
hahaha, made my day!
You must have had a pretty shitty, boring day
I’ve been thinking from square one that St. Anger must be somewhere on here.After all, why ELSE would the way people voted be kept secret? lol
You may jest, but I think there’s a good chance Death Magnetic will be #1, which would be a sad day indeed.
After reading this excerpt, I now officially know LESS about this album.
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKK
very nice.
i don’t love this album, but i do like it a great deal, (deserves top 100 maybe, not 21) and i LOVE the way the review addresses the tremendous pink elephant, so to speak, that stalks this album everywhere it goes.
white elephant. you mean white elephant.
This is one of the only black metal bands i enjoy listening to. If you haven’t heard them, track it down. To me, its an interesting and well pulled-off hybrid of black metal, punk, and classic rock.
Yes yes YES. I won this album on vinyl in the caption competition a few months back and it’s AWESOME!
An interesting choice; I wonder how many other black metal albums will make the list.
Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad album (Top 21 of the last 9 years though? no way, but with the exception of Remission, the best album so far), but I’ve never managed to understand the obsession with this album. It’s just…good, not even very good, and certainly not great.
I really like this album.
Haha and now that we finally have a release that isn’t mainstream, I get to bitch.
Now, I enjoy this album, but as far as black metal goes, there’s been far better, and I think it’s a shame, because with the exception of Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon, I can’t really think of any black metal bands that appeal to enough people that they’d chart on this list.
Then again, this pick surprised me, I actually wasn’t aware these guys were particularly popular.
Mayhem or Enslaved perhaps? Though I’m not sure if Enslaved could really be considered true/tr00 black metal these days. They’re awesome regardless.
the last emperor album came out in 2001. do u remember the constant ball licking they got at the end of last/beginning of this decade from all metal media and most metal fans? revolver did a big 100-something list of albums of all time (i think) a few years back and even they put prometheus somewhere in the top 10. i thought it was kinda cool of them, although unrealistic.
If they were going to throw BM a bone, I figured it would be this. More easily accesible than Xasthur or Leviathan, and definitely less scary than Watain, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see that show up at some pont. My vote would have been for “the two hunters” though.
I would not have put this in my top 21 of the past ten years. For black metal any of the last 3 Enslaved records or Keep of Kalessin’s “Armada” are way better than this. Some of this record is AMAZING and some of this record is blah. Solid and cool. Top 21 of 2008, not of all of the 2000s
My IQ is now even lower thanks to Christopher Weingarten.
It’s about damn time we got a decent album to go along with Remission. I mean, come on… Lamb of God? Hatebreed?? Slipknot??? Two of those bands aren’t even metal, and one is borderline at best. And yes, I first started listening to them back when Reign of the Malicious was released (2002?), though I wasn’t a fan until the incredibleness that was Demise: I’m THAT cool.
I’m going to nickname you Sentence Three
I like this album altho it doesn’t really sound like black metal to me. More like psychodelic metal if such a thing exists.
The first record on this list that a number of metal fans may not be familar with, and the reviewer uses this to talk about pretty much everything bar the music – Its a good record, vastly different than anything else so far on the list – It needs about 5/6 full listens to soak in, but its worth immersing yourself in it – Imagine equal parts Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Dark Throne and you wouldn’t be far off
I agree with you…the Floyd was certainly in heavy rotation when they wrote this. Takes a few listens to ‘get it”. I like album and I’m glad its on here.
Their previous album, Instinct: Decay deserved to be on this list a hundred times over before this, but since this one was the one that got the money behind it promotion-wise I’m not surprised. Awesome album regardless.
Quick aside, fuck these full page sidebar ads, so fucking annoying.
Agreed, Instinct is far better. Actually, pretty much every other release they’ve had outshines this one in my opinion.
AGREED
Easily the best album of 2008 and the first good album on the list. I actually would have put this much higher. Probably top 5.
“Not mainstream” my ass. Did you see how much press these guys got? Also I agree with the guy above me — the Kalessin and Enslaved records kick the shit out of this. Come to think of it, “The Blackening” should be above this as well.
I think this review is perfect, because it is referring to all the fuck heads that only listen to obscure underground death metal that say Machine Head or Slipknot isn’t metal. I will now check this band out because of the review.
WTF! I’ll check them out, see what the fucks up.
farges they toigen oif kaduches
ich bin hoich
vuss iz naies
:-)
ven di bist hoich durten oiven in himmel, freg di “SATAN” veleche metal albums err hut lib!!! lol
First one on the list I’ve actually agreed with! Hooray!
Finally, the list produces a surprise…and it’s accompanied by one of the most half-assed write-ups I’ve ever read.
Focus on the MUSIC next time, not fabricated scene politics and dead-horse bludgeoning.
Coincidentally i was actually looking at this album on amazon earlier today, thinking the album art looked pretty good but i hadnt heard of them before. That said i may have to check it out now. However, wtf with the review, confusing to say the least to those who dont about this band me included.
It’s a good record but as far as black metal goes, I’d still rank Grand Declaration of War, Promethius, ROM 5:12, Below the Lights and Hell is Empty above Assassins.
And Two Hunters
And Reign of Light.
Yeah, Assassins is pretty far down on my list.
Then again, you try paying to see a band twice and being stood up by them both times. First Blake breaks his leg when i go to see The Haunted, then they’re opening for Mayhem after Blackenedfest falls apart and cancel the show at the last minute. It’s pathetic.
its pretty hard to call this “black metal” as opposed to just heavily influenced by…
ROM 5:12 at least top 15. Marduk can not make a bad album.
Marduk certainly can make a bad album. They are like a fucking washing machine…its the same blast beat tremello riffs over and over. Although, I do think Rom 5:12 is AMAZING and easily their best after Opus Nocturne. Mostly because of the addition of Mortuus/Arioch of Funeral Mist on vox.
i’m not going to check out every single name in the “jury”, but my bets are on them being american for the most part. not saying this isn’t a good album (it is) but it has no place on this list imho
great record…I don’t know about the rest of these questions(I’m not troo/kvlt/brootal enough to speculate anyway), but so far your list could use more of the Scion Rock Fest line-up and less suck!
lol, hipster black metal. At this pace, Six Feet Under will be #1? This list is indeed horse shit.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the triumphant return of Ziltoid, the obnoxious douche!!!!!!
**Crowd cheers**
No, moar hipster black metal. This list will have Wolves in the Throne Room and Xasthur. And everybody voting for this list goes to an art shcool. MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA
Hipster black metal, how many copies did this records sell, a couple of thousand? Yup thats breaking through to the mainstream alright
i have had numerous buddies of mine with respectable opinons tell me this album is THE shit… but I just don’t get this band
Was that a review or a survey? And what do Nice Smelling Bowel Movements have to do with anything?
This band is terrible. Saw them open for Opeth and High On Fire, they just straight suck. Sounded like a bunch of teenagers at a high school battle of the bands.
+1 – I saw that line-up as well…Fucking Horrible! They must have been friends with Opeth or from the same town to land that gig.
Nachtmystium are certainly NOT friends with Opeth. In fact, Opeth kicked them off the tour personally for being obnoxious morons.
And no, they are not from the same town, Nachtmystium is from Wheaton Illinois, the Christian haven of the midwest and the home of the “Left Behind” series. That is where Blake wrote most of his material, in his mothers basement in Wheaton. This is true, I was there getting baked.
This band sounds like my 7 year old beating on his drums while my 3 year old screams at the top of his lungs that its his turn to play over and over.
this list really just went sideways
these fuckers suck donkey cock for business and pleasure
word. There are black metal albums which are way better than this. Azoi vi ich veis vus ich red!
And if you’re wondering about other genres
Folk Metal
To the Nameless Dead
Ot Serdsa K Nebu
1184
Mabool
Groove Metal
Catch 33
Ashes of the Wake
The Blackening
The Way of All Flash
Inflikted
Death Metal
Gateways to Annihilation
Kill
Rise of the Tyrant
Antethesis
obServant
Blackwater Park
Souls to Deny
Litany
Damage Done
Grindcore
Phantom Limb
Altered States of America
Smear Campaign
Wounded
Doom/Sludge
Leviathan
Monotheist
Death is this Communion
Thrash
The Formation of Damnation
Death Magnetic
rEVOLVEr
War Metal Battle Master
Christ Illusion
The Art of Partying
Unlimited
-core
Miss Machine
The Oncoming Storm
Decimate the Weak
Jane Doe
Clients
Fortress
Progressive
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
Accelerated Evolution
The Divine Conspiracy
Industrial
The Last Sucker
SYL
Power
Follow the Reaper
After Forever
That’s probably WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYY more than 21 but that’s what I’ve liked in this decade
45
And add Life if Killing Me and From Beale Street to Oblivion to doom/sludge and Suspended Animation to grind
48 now assuming that you counted the black metal albums I’m not sure it you did
55
I counted 55
Life Is Killing Me, great album i forgot about. You really can’t say anything bad about Type O, unless you’re a bitch.
A few quick observations that jumped out at me, Blessed black wings > DITC, origin is a terribly boring band, and Arsis – A Celebration of Guilt should be on there somewhere IMO.
As long as you’re not hating on Wounded, Miss Machine and Hell is Empty, I don’t really care
And how can you like Arsis but not Origin?
Oh, and Hypnopeadia needs to be added to this list as well for prog metal albums. Make that 56. Oh, and it would be 58 if Sunn O))) and God Dethroned’s best albums of the decade didn’t come out in 2009.
Arsis should be here just for the song Diamond for Disease. “Written for a ballet performance? Get the fuck out of here.” And then it just kills you. Nothing they’ve done since has come close to that shit.
Damn right you got some Epica – The Divine Conspiracy! But progressive? I would say they have a lot of progressive influences and tendencies but not necessarily prog. People on this site should get on this shit.
And I just remembered Tool’ Lateralus. Silly me. 57. (59 if you count 09 releases)
YOU ARE GAY.
Heeyy, where’s beastman?
Gotta give you props for “To the Nameless Dead” from Primordial and “Litany” By Vader.
IGN.com called this the best metal album of last year.
Yeah, that’s right. Motherfucking IGN.
two great picks in a row
wow, lets just conclude that this list blows dick now.
I’m hoping to see some Dark Tranquility on this list
still waiting for disturbed….DOWN WIT DA SIKKKKNESSSSS
OOOOOOOOOOWAAAAHHHHHAAHHHHHHHHAAAHHHHHHHH
Normally I’d say that your trolling simply isn’t funny but it actually is!
Interesting I didn’t know this band was considered part of the black metal scene. I know Black was part of it at one time, but most BM fans don’t consider it this band to be BM. Im not saying this band should or shouldn’t be on the list. Actually I only have listen to a few of their songs, which seemed ok but nothing great.
I meant Blake.
Helllllllll yeah. Great, great album.
I am listening to the song Ghost of Grace on you tube. It literally could be the worst song ive ever heard. Based on this song and this review fuck this band and everything they write. I can think of 25 better albums to listen to than this one. Starting with any Weezer album. Yea I said it.
ACTUALLY HOW THE HELL CAN THIS ALBUM BE RANKED HIGHER THAN MACHINE HEAD ” THE BLACKENING”. DID THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THIS ACTUALLY LISTEN TO BOTH ALBUMS? I AM GOING TO SAY NO THEY FUCKING DIDNT.
Capital letters increase the strength of your already well substantiated argument.
Did Chandler Bing write this review? Are Friends jokes not kvlt enough for metal blogs? This album is no less mainstream than any of the others on the list. Every metal blog had a huge b0n3r for this album.
Fucking seriously? Not Instinct: Decay? Goddamn you Metalsucks.
this is the worst album so far on this list. i really have a hard time believing that it even belongs here. average album at best.
A GOOD band on this list?? A good band on this list!
That is the most retarded collection of text ever put on this site. I like that CD and now I’m upset he talked about it. Someone murder this man.
Yeah, that saxophone certainly raised MY eyebrows.
this list just gets worse and worse.
i still only agree with Remission.
but seriously, how metal is this list now?
barely, if that.
i suggest the metal sucks team and poll of voters find their nuts, or lack thereof and let us
the dedicated readers of this blog decide.
certainly there will be many disputes, debates and comments, but what if we did our own voting similar to how the MS team did it?
any takers?
I’m down with the brown!! (So yeh, I would do it)
I usually hate hating, but I gave this album a try and listened to a couple of songs and all I gotta say is that “THIS ALBUM IS HORSE SHIT”! ’nuff said
The #1 reason this album made the list dead lady BOOBIES! OH YEAH!!!!!!!!
TO ALL METALSUCKS PEOPLE BITCHING ABOUT THIS LIST:
Once you get to the position where most of the people involved in making this list are, then you have an opinion that people would care about. If you really hate this list that much, then here’s a suggestion:
1: Start your own metal blog
2: Get famous/somewhat famous/people that got other people famous to make a “best of” list
3: Realize that your opinion is still unnecessary
4: ???
5: Everyone else profits because now they don’t have to worry about your whiny comments making Metalsucks take more time to load
YEAH, COMPLIMENTS ONLY. YOU METALSUCKS MOTHERFUCKERS NEED TO KEEP THIS SHIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STYLE AND NOT SMACK TALK ANYTHING.
I’m not even British, but your a bloody fuckin’ wanker…
Because I’m right? You’re telling people to keep the comments to themselves if they don’t have a positive thing to say. That’s what they do in grades K-6. Do come around here spouting off that elementary school bullshit and think you’re right because of it. You’ve only made yourself look like an idiot.
you sir, are the idiot
Keith- why don’t you:
1) Start your own metal blog
2: Get famous/somewhat famous/people that got other people famous to make a “best of” list
3: Realize that your opinion is still VERY unnecessary
4: Go suck a goat
5: Get a better ISP
@Bradican
How the fuck are you going to call me an idiot, and not even come up with an adequate rebuttal to my argument with Keith, or a defense to your statement?
Until you do, you’re the idiot, plain and simple.
Keith:
this list has been created for the single purpose of us posting hateful comments directed at each other and those who voted. join the fun!!!
Blake Judd is a closet Nazi. Look at what his label released in the past. Stop defending these racist dirtbags.
I don’t know a single hipster who says anything other than “gezundheit” if I mention Nachtmystium.
My mom could come up with a better list. Those guys that voted for these bands need to expand their metal horizons.
I had nearly given up on this list until now. And hell I’m damn suprised. I love this album, and I’m not entirely sure I would have put it on this list, but I’m so dam happy to see something on this list that isn’t total Hot Topic metal. (BTW, I also like the Blackening and Remission quite a bit, but still)
And really, Hipsters like this album? I guess I’m not too surprised… Milwaukee hipsters are usually a year behind the rest anyway… They just heard of Mastodon last year…
What is an NSBM Label?
National Socialist Black Metal… generally associated (not without reason) with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, although not always.
I believe it’s National Socialist Black Metal
ha that was a very good way at avoiding pinpointing all the awesomeness. Well played, journalist. I laughed out loud.inded.
Awesome album. I don’t really like any of the other picks but I’m not hear to cry and bitch about it. This album’s style truly stands out in the metal community to me. Glad to see it on here.
fantastic album \m/
Hey bobbybobbob.
Only this album and Remission are worthy so far…..everything is for the pre-teen prom crowd. A glimmer of hope that this list may turn out okay.
Meant to say ‘everything ELSE’ is for the teenagers there………………………
I’d have to agree with the guy who said that remission and this are the only worthy records on the list so far. Great album.
Can a testimony like that encourage anyone to listen to this album?
apparently. although i thought it was lame lame lame.
FUCK THESE NAZI FUCKS.
Good, finally a more interesting album on the list.
I’m a hipster and, on behalf of the often sidelined, misunderstood and reviled hipster community, I’d like to say how offended by this article.
….I am/we are.
ah forget it, it wasnt that funny anyway.
What the heck is a hipster metal fan? Threw this album on this morning, fucking awesome.
good. you deserve to feel offended for bringing your kind and dirtying up the metals. besides- hipsters get offended way too much.
Wow… never heard of ‘em… but I’ll check it out!
Seeing a no-namer on this list finally leaves me with hope that Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus makes the list. It was hands down the best album of ‘07 in my opinion.
Sorry, nothing negative to say. I love the cover….
OK just got done hearing the whole album. Wow. I was really skeptical about about a black metal album making this list. These guys are incredible. I thought Old Man’s Child was as good as it got. This is clearly the best black metal band out there. Ever. Fuck wow. And I really hate black metal. Thank you for introducing me to them!
Old Mans Child??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Try Deathspell Omega’s album “SI Monumentum Requires Circumspice” on for size. THAT is 21st centure black metal. Their other albums “Kenose” and “Fas Maledictum in … ” Are also amazing .Check them out, then come back here when you have a frame of reference.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA !!!! Get the fuck outta here ! GARBAGE. Putting a random lazer beam sound every couple of tracks does not make this BLAND,souless, derivative,BORING, aimless horse shit “Progressive” Good god, metal ‘journalists’ really need to stop fellating this band. ANYTHING Enslaved has put out this decade BLOWS this out of the water as far a ‘progressive’ black metal goes. This list was already garbage, but this is the icing on the fucking cake ! Blake Judd is a snot rag in the wind…..twisting and turing with the winds of trend wherever they take him. His attitude/opinions about everything change depending on who he’s hanging out with at the moment. The guy is a leach and his band sucks.
> Zap <
YAWN.
the “Zap” is a lazer beam sound. Get it, Im “Progressive” justl ike Nachtmystium
Everybody on three…
One…
Two…
Three…
HAIL SATAN!!!
I actually really enjoy this album. I catch myself while liking this album and go, “what the hell am I doing listening to pussy black metal.” But- it’s pretty damn fucking catchy. I feel like it’s something a little new and different in the realm of “black metal.” Kinda like Wolves in the Throne Room- doing something a little different. Albeit different meaning less Satan- more melody. These guys definitely know their Sabbath.
Now- one of the best albums of the decade? I think not. One of *my* favorite albums for the month of September? Yes.
Fantastic album.
Most real life, non internet represented hipsters have never heard of this album. It’s all bullshit that people believe from reading the internet. Trendy? Since when is Nachtmystium a trend? Your average hipster has never even heard of Nachtmystium. I guarantee you no one who calls this hipster metal has ever had an actual face-to-face conversation with a hipster who has heard this album, or anything by Nachtmystium. And even if they did like this album, I honestly don’t know why people give a fuck. Because that makes it less metal? Real metal fans don’t judge their metal by how metal it is. Hipsters love the fucking Melvins, who are heavy as shit, but not very metal. You know who else loves The Melvins? METALHEADS! People need to stop with this crazy idea of metal being some inside, elitist art that only they and their elite metal posse understand. We now live in a day and age where GOOD metal is starting to be accepted by the mainstream, and I think that’s fucking great. I love it when a non-metalhead gets down on some Mastodon or some old-school Judas Priest. Everyone’s always bitching on this site that we need to “expand our horizons” and “really open your mind to more interesting music.” Well if that’s the case, isn’t it not only acceptable, but pretty awesome that non-metal fans are expanding THEIR tastes to include some kickass metal? This album might not be fuckin Darkthrone, but it’s also not Hatebreed, or Killswitch Engage (sorry, my opinion), or Bullet For My Valentine, or any of that shit you see on “Headbanger’s Ball”. Shit, I don’t even think it’s that amazing of an album, but it’s fucking solid and has some interesting parts, like that horn section in Ghosts Of Grace, or the awesome drunken-barfight chorus of Assassins. So if you’re not ordinarily a metal fan, and you dig this album, I hoist my beer in your direction.
If this list is any indication y’all are sure right about ONE THING at least:
metal sure does suck!
this band does not deserve to be here and higher then SLIPKNOT and LAMB OF FUCKING GOD!!!! utter busllshit
lol@slipknot statement, slipknots fucking terrible
you might not like them but they are way better then this piece of crap
Hahahahahahahahaha, yeah alright, fuck yeah nu-metal, and fuck no thought invoking atmospheric black metal.
Of course, I’m not speaking of this album, but this album is still probably better than Slipknots shitography.
fuck that, there last 3 albums were not nu metal and even the numetal self titled was better then this boring atmospheric crap… also there is alot of better black metal then this garbage… Long live the nine!!!
Whoa whoa whoa wait a second…
This album is #15 and System of a Down is #14?
Wtf….
Bottom Line: This album rocks regardless of genre or hipster insider/outsider cred. Black Meddle and Disfear’s last album are a couple of old school bangers that sound great every time you put them on.
What about Tetragrammatical Astygmata by Averse Sefira, as far as BM goes this album puts anything created by Nachtmystium to shame.
wat a joke,they have at least 4 better releases in the last 7 years
Hmm, best black metal record of the decade…I need to check it out…
But black metal can’t get any more unique than Agalloch or Summoning, eh?
i just got back from saxophone camp and saxophone is the last thing i want to think about right now
however…
black metal + saxophone = OMFG I HAVE TO HEAR THIS!!!
wait… is this the band with the bari sax?