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NACHTMYSTIUM (USA): "Demise" CD
(Battlefield Records)
This album succeeds "Reign of the Malicious" and, despite the arrogance of the digipack, appears on a label that is smaller and less well organised than their former one, Regimental Records; but just as precious about their NACHTMYSTIUM stock. "Demise" continues in a similar vein to its predecessor, offering grim, dissonant Black Metal, played slow, pared down to the bone, and wrapped in a harsh, austere aesthetic emphasising pain, viciousness, and inhumanity. In all this they belong to the same niche as JUDAS ISCARIOT and the KRIEG of a thousand years ago: like them, the noxious sensations one gets here are those of photographic bleach, swimming pool algicide, or concentrated scale remover. If you have ever handled any of these poisonous substances, inhaled their toxic fumes, or felt drops of them burning your unprotected skin, you will get the idea by translating that into sound. A bit of covert monitoring on the internet has enabled me to learn that the driving force behind this project is a genuinely tormented soul, afflicted by affective dysfunction, paranoid-schizophrenia, and self-destructive habits involving knives and ethilic comas; the evidence is there for all to see on the back of the digipack: just look at Azentrius' pustulous and diseased complexion: it is that of a heroine addict in a sordid squat, or an inmate in an overcrowded, crumbling Siberian prison, where meals consists of only watery soup and stale bread, once a day, without variation, year in and year out. It is safe, therefore, to conclude that the music is true to the core. NACHTMYSTIUM insists in restricting their releases to short runs of 1000 or, even better, the low hundreds if at all possible, which, combined with their activeness in the underground live circuit, sharing the stage with the most radical Black Metal hordes in their part of the world, has ended up frustrating all but the fastest-moving collectors. We detected a lot of insterest and rapid sales when we got copies of "Reign of the Malicious" in, despite our not having previously reviewed it, so we don't expect these to last. Reviewed by AK-47.
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