This post will contain a rant, so if youre not into that, just wait for Headbanger to keep posting bad ass metal!
I got into Nachtmystium via Decibel around (2006) via their glowing review of Instinct: Decay. That album is and will be one of my favorite black metal albums of all time. It was the perfect combination of USBM with very extreme psychedelic influences. I was tremendously stoked with Black Meddle: Vol 1 - Assassins as it took the psych influences further. When Black Meddle 2 came out folks started to **** on them, but I still love that record (danceable song and all... mind you I listened to a lot of industrial in my youth). I even enjoyed Silencing Machine, which was kind of a return to form for them (more traditionally sounding black metal songs, at least in the lens songs Nachtmysitum had created).
So then the lead singer, Black Judd, Mastermind of Nachtmystium, gets caught ripping off fans, promoters, distributors, and pretty much anyone else in contact with him. I read the articles and just cringe, as I own all the records, multiple shirts, etc. (hell I own a f*cking hat). BTW, he is severally addicted to heroin. JUNKY, with a capital J. BUT, I never got F*cked by him.
So they are supposed to release their "last" record and call it quits, The World We Left Behind. Cool, he is gonna write about his struggles, get clean (if he can), and release a bad ass album. Well folks, that DID NOT HAPPEN! I am not sure whether it was just contractual obligations or what, but the new Nactmystium is TERRIBLE! And I mean Terrible with a capital T. It sounds like it was phoned in. To make matters worse, the psychedelic nature of their earlier material is non-existent.
I am starting to believe what I have read on blogs and what not, that Blake would not have made it had he not had the great musicians he had around him, Chris Black, Jeff Wilson, Sanford Parker, WREST, and Will Lindsay. Minus the really early Norwegian BM bedroom BS he wrote early in his career, this is the first record he has written by himself. AND IT IS TERRIBLE!
I guess I am just bummed. I aint even gonna link a song to this thread. I am just wondering if any other fans have gotten embarrassed by a band you love?
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