Nachtmystery
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After Glorior Belli’s baffling new excursion, here’s another potentially intriguing/disastrous/awesome departure from black metal.
Earlier this year, I interviewed Sanford Parker. He mentioned some records he had produced:
The new Twilight record is highly influenced by the whole industrial scene. The new Nachtmystium is pretty much off the chart as far as that goes. All these records I mentioned, you can definitely hear that strong Wax Trax presence in them.
We didn’t like Nachtmystium’s last album, Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I, because it weakly straddled the line between black metal and “psychedelic music”.
But if the above taste of their new album, Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II, out June 8 on Century Media, is any indication, Nachtmystium have at least resolved the straddling problem. It has zero black metal, but has acoustic guitar, clean singing, and an overall vibe that suggests post-metal (German group Long Distance Calling comes to mind) crossed with industrial music (Killing Joke comes to mind).
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Perhaps appropriately, it introduces a new, deathcore-ish logo that drops the pentagram and inverted crosses of the previous Nachtmystium logo (see above).
I’m kind of digging all these potential Cold Lakes. They help keep things lively.
