Nachtmystium

No thread? for shame. Anyway new album is terrific, j3ff t was right. I suppose BM purists will hate it (the ones on last.fm certainly do) but this is just a great record.

Even LJ will like it.

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/N/Nachtmystium/Addicts%20Black%20Meddle%20Pt.%202/Addicts%20Black%20Meddle%20Pt.%202.jpg

What's it like compared to Assassins (which I loved)?

I am buying this Tuesday!!

It's very good but it's a bit different. Kind of influenced by Sigh I would say. There's even a song on it that has been tagged on last.fm as http://www.last.fm/tag/uber-kvlt%20blackened%20disco and it's quite apt!

purism is boring btw

i put on "Ghosts of Grace" from the last record and it's just \m/ O_O \m/

addicts: black meddle, part II?

yup, it's out next week

Like every other metal writer on earth, I have an interview w/Judd in the can; it'll be up on the MSN site on Monday.

awesome

i read that as "Like every other metal writer on earth, I have an interview w/Judd on the can" and I thought what a strange place to conduct an interview.

Every artist has their demands

Even LJ will like it.

lol is lj your idea of a black metal purist

these guys are ok. the amount of praise heaped on them by indie ppl is completely disproportionate to any of the actual stuff on offer in their catalog, but I'm open to being blown away by the new one.

their best one was Instinct: Decay IMO.

lol is lj your idea of a black metal purist

Hardly. Its so non-pure BM that LJ will like it. As well you know what I meant.

I want to know what everyone thinks of No Funeral

Wicked album, it's my fave of 2010 so far.

They're playing with eyehategod in Chicago, presumably for their record release. Excited. I'm gonna buy the record Tuesday. Can't wait. I love their weird new direction, but I am not a purist. (I also just like the idea of taking a weird new direction)

i am like the only dude bumming on this record i guess

Twilight record blows it away imo

Haven't heard the whole thing, but I like the Twilight record. They're just different.

Yeah, it's an apples vs. oranges thing with those records. Both are really good.

whiney the purist ;)

Wow, I have an album by this band, but I have never knowingly listened to it. It's probably quite old. So I take it these are a bit more interesting than your average BM dreck?

Here's my interview with Judd.

nice! interesting stuff about the vocals. i was wondering about that.
prediction: soon there will be dancing (dancing!) at nachtmystium shows. that was the first thing i thought when i heard "no funeral". also "this will be good music for running."

for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUr0AEpI_4&feature=related

it does sound like sigh, except sigh are really funny and awesome

New album is on Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/2baHKd8pCB3QuYqXxIgpH5

Twilight record blows it away imo

Cool, I'm excited to hear the Twilight record! What's your fav track, Whiney? So many bands you love, it's hard to know -- Florence and the Machine, the Bravery, Metric, Muse, Sia, Band of Horses, Beck... how does a Whiney even choose a favorite??

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hvRZceiFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

it is an unfortunate name, that's for sure

Which reminds me that I should have put this review in that 'is this the worst piece of music writing ever' thread when it went up - oh well

do it now

that Stephanie Meyer has made the association between the word "twilight" and vampires in our culture more or less absolute is the worst aspect of the whole whole Twilight phenomenon

whole whole

I started reading that and was thinking "I bet this isn't that bad". Then it was bad. Then it was really bad. Then it wasn't just bad, it went for the throat!

Did I mention it was bad?

Dog latin, how was it?

as bad as the last post

The Twilight record is fantastic, thats for sure. I've avoided any of the leaks or previews of the Nachtmystium record, waiting to hear it in full tomorrow.

mmm, can't remember if i've heard any clips of the record, but i'll definitely be buying it in a real world record shop tomorrow O_O

Good interview, Phil. Can't wait for the Editors/Interpol/Killers influence(?!) on this album...?

So it’s all that stuff, in combination with my love for anything that sounds like Joy Division, including Joy Division. I’m the guy that loves all those knockoff bands. I love Editors, I love Interpol, I actually kinda like the Killers, I’m not gonna lie. There’s an influence from all that stuff coming through.

I love Editors

u_u

that band's music is boring and stuff, i'm always calling its bluff

I've never heard Editors; for some reason I was thinking they were part of a 90s Britpop mini-wave along with Menswe@r and bands like that. I still don't think I'll be checking them out.

I liked the first Editors single, but its been diminishing returns ever since.

The stuff I've heard from Addicts sounds really great. Glad Blake's cleaning up the vocals a bit, I'm not much of a fan of the trad. growling/rawwwwwrrrr!!! black metal style vox in most cases and I like hearing a few lyrics seep through the chaos.

do you like any black metal, ilxor?

I tend to like stuff that draws from black metal and runs with it as an influence and does something new with it. Not really a fan of any "purist" black metal, I get the appeal, I guess, but it doesn't really get to me personally.

More on the Editors influence (via Decibel); sorry, finding this funny:

Editors: The Back Room

[Editors are] just one of those post- Joy Division bands that I’ve really grown to like. I am really bummed out because they’ve gone into a downward spiral of making crappy records… but The Back Room is a perfect example of post-punk, post-goth, wannabe-Joy Division vibe that bands like Interpol try to capture. That album I also got at a pretty interesting point in my life, so it spoke to me for fairly personal reasons. Musically, overall, the album is full of singles. It has this dance-y, major vibe to it, and if you dig in it’s extremely dark and sad. I can connect to it the same way I can connect to moody black metal. It has that same vibe of sorrow and melancholy. It is probably the favored album for Nachtmystium in the van on tour.

Standout Tracks: “Lights,” “Munich” and “Camera”

cool, cad.

and yeah, this is basically the Nachtmystium, Taylor Swift, ilx poster's cats, and rolling CD purchases thread now. an enjoyable clusterfuck!

all its lacking is a pitchfork review of the Nachtmystium then we might hit 1000 posts

cats?!

http://www.pictures-of-kittens-and-cats.com/images/fat-cat-pictures-001.jpg

CATS

watchin the live stream of this nashville show, can kinda make out a dude in the crowd sorta dancing, not much else

gonna come back to it after the Withered set

That cat DEFINITELY wants more.

That cat DEFINITELY wants more.

So funny I had to post it twice!

i will try and upload photos of my cats riding my goat.

i heard taylor swift goes out with one of the guys from locrian, i think it's the drummer.

i can't remember the last cd i bought but somebody gave me an lp the other day of mike auldridge dobro stuff on takoma (which i've yet to give a decent spin)

where's link for that live set?

courtesy of pfunk upthread
http://themusenashville.com/

oops sorry. just sorta skimmed past and didnt see the openers bit. thnx

can't remember the last cd i bought but somebody gave me an lp the other day of mike auldridge dobro stuff on takoma (which i've yet to give a decent spin)

― kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 8:45 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah sounding pretty good so far. was a new name to me - a friend gifted it to me because i bought a dobro recently... maybe not such a good record to give someone who has no idea how to play one though :/

all its lacking is a pitchfork review of the Nachtmystium then we might hit 1000 posts

Actually, the Emeralds thread is gonna take off, based on today's Pfork Best New Music heralding of the new album:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14275-does-it-look-like-im-here

Goes nicely with the Woods BNM 8.3 handed out last year, don't you think? ;-)

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12837-songs-of-shame

All of Herman's favorite bands slowly turning into Pfork relics.

So pitchfork covering something good at last, eh?

Should've taken acid with Nachtmystium.

Guys, our long national nightmare is over. I was able to pick this up at Reckless this morning. I figured I could sacrifice a couple hours of studying for Nachtmystium and Watain.

Woohoo!

I got the Watain too, yesterday.

did you get corpsepaint?

http://www.musicheaven.gr/html/modules/Splatt_Forums/attachment/b0f0627aa846c4559911984bd3aecd21.0.abbath.jpg.atch
Nachmystium ain't real black metal!

Okay, yeah, this is really fucking great.

told you so

really hoping they're going to release a Nachtmystium Teaches You The Letters of the Alphabet educational record next

saw them tonight at empty bottle (with bongripper (?), atlas moth (they have great tshirts), yakuza (were AWESOME), and eyehategod (almost got trampled whoops)

some observations:

* opened with "your true enemy" and "ghosts of grace", played "assassins" to close set. also "high on hate" from addicts, and "hellish overdose" from doomsday derelicts. did NOT play "no funeral", "nightfall" or "addicts". maybe waiting for a headlining gig? this was the second night of 2 at this venue.

* sounded really tight and LOUD. loved it. new guys everywhere.

* superficially, i must mention that blake got a serious haircut (not sure if this has happened recently or not) and now looks even more like my puppy. it's a graduated bob, basically. little bit longer in front, pretty short in the back. he was also wearing v tight jeans.

the end

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/nachtmystium-addicts-black-meddle-pt-ii-interview/Content?oid=1982081
nachtmystium addresses their questionable past associations and dispels rumors

don't forget to scroll down to the sad/hilarious comments

man this is straight trolling

Black metal has been rife with purists since it first emerged as a distinct subculture in Norway in the early 90s, and many of its most devoted fans still insist that it has to come from Scandinavia to be considered "true." Ten years ago this faction was influential enough that American black metal was widely considered a knockoff or even a joke, but today the music's audience is so much larger and more diverse that the zealots no longer have that kind of pull. American bands like Leviathan, Xasthur, and Wolves in the Throne Room are now seen as standard-bearers of the style, in large part because they've departed from its orthodoxies—instead of imitating 20-year-old Emperor records, they're pushing black metal in new directions, coloring it with psychedelia or even prog rock.

let's take it bit by bit

Black metal has been rife with purists since it first emerged as a distinct subculture in Norway in the early 90s,

true

and many of its most devoted fans still insist that it has to come from Scandinavia to be considered "true."

not true, at all - most of the troo kvlt purer-than-pure people will stan for black metal from Russia, France, Slovakia (the Stone), Germany, not to mention the elephant in the room, SOUTH AMERICA, whose black metal is & has always been dear to the kvltest of the kvlt

Ten years ago this faction was influential enough that American black metal was widely considered a knockoff or even a joke,

except that 10 years ago everybody knew Order from Chaos was one of the best black metal bands ever, and Absu's been around forever and was widely respected 10 years ago, and Averse Sefira's first full-length was '99 & they're also well-liked by "purists," and there's also Profantatica/Havohej, and Judas Iscariot who're from fucking DeKalb for Christ's sake...in short, there's been loads of respected U.S. black metal for a long, long time, and the thesis "USBM was not respected" actually maybe means "since casually-interested fans were only noticing/poking fun at Scandinavian bands, those were the only bands of note"

but today the music's audience is so much larger and more diverse that the zealots no longer have that kind of pull.

As just demonstrated, USBM has been around pretty much since the beginning - this whole "zealots kept it down!" idea is an invention

American bands like Leviathan, Xasthur, and Wolves in the Throne Room are now seen as standard-bearers of the style, in large part because they've departed from its orthodoxies—instead of imitating 20-year-old Emperor records, they're pushing black metal in new directions, coloring it with psychedelia or even prog rock.

where to even begin? who was ever imitating which Emperor records, now or previously? etc

aerosmith, what I really wanna know is do you like the new Nachtmystium?

I don't really care about Nachtymystium enough to hear it - I got Instinct:Decay when people were going nuts about it and was really underwhelmed - it's not like I think it sucked completely but it's just not anything I'm really interested in. Like if a band is "pushing black metal in new directions, coloring it with psychedelia or even prog rock" - cool, hope people enjoy it, as for me, that is exactly what I do not want so I'll pass

Okay, yeah, this is really fucking great.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 11:37 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

don't you want to die-uh

oh HOLY SHIT, auto-negate all forms of hate. this is astounding. bought it early today (SO SO LATE I NO), and have been playing the first "LP" for over and over and over and over again. do not hear any goddam fucking joy fucking divisions you piles of shit. only hear awesome-ass pain metal brilliance forever.

i.e. fuck you aerosmith! (not really, but shit, dude, come on...) this is not "pushing black metal in new directions!" this is just awesome-ass goddam HEAVY FUCKING METAL, like people who are not worthless goddam sheeps have been making and enjoying for several decades now. if you do not comprehend this, then you do not like heavy metal and should fuck right the fucking fuck off okay?

i mean, i liked black meddle 1 enuf okay, but this is something else. one of the coolest & bestest shits i've heard in goddam don't know since when. "MY SPELL IS CHEMICAL!" shit. "I'M CURSED AGAIN-uh."

and then guitar

you are fighting the wrong fucking battles. you need to fall the fuck in line.

I'm happy everyone likes "No Funeral."

if I gotta fall in line with something as dull as instinct:decay I'll pass

I *think* he's talking about their new one but I wouldn't swear to it

He is

woah contenderizers havin a breakdown itt

not a breakdown so much as me being a drunk, drunk, drunk-ass ass. [face of shame] wasn't really trying to draw lines in the sand, just got a bit, uh, overenthusiastic while effuhking plastered - posting @ two AM, note.

and though i enjoyed it at the time, i agree with you, aerosmith. instinct:decay = no great shakes. assassins is better, but the new one (addicts) is leaps and bounds beyond anything they've done prior. great songs, delivery, production, solos, vibe, etc. not any kind of obvious crossover attempt or reinvention of the wheel, either. just a distinctive & memorable metal record.

that is (i think) what i was trying to say the other night...

btw, apologies for the confrontational tone, aero. i often get a bit chesty when sauced. typically seems funny to me and no one else. c'est la guerre.

i thought it was kind of funny and figured you were under the influence or something or other
otherwise, WOW do you love this band

"chesty" vs. "shirty" - POO

btw, apologies for the confrontational tone, aero. i often get a bit chesty when sauced. typically seems funny to me and no one else. c'est la guerre.

oh dude do not even sweat it! I enjoy getting spirited about music I love!

No talk about Silencing Machine? I just picked this up, and I'm liking it a lot. Great riffs! Gothy!

Contenderizer is effing hilarious in this thread

Silencing Machine is ok but I don't like it nearly as much as Assassins. I also thought it was "my smell is chemical" which kinda makes sense although it's lol to sing about yr smell imo.

I need to get Assassins; the only other one I have is Instinct:Decay which I like quite a lot.

I'm more excited about this '85 Combat Records pressing of Welcome to Hell I found on the same trip! It even has an IRD mail order catalog inside... First two Bathory LPs for $6.99 apiece! "After September 1, 1986 add $1.00 to the cost of each item."

Celtic Frost "Group shot 'Megatherion' Muscle-T": $9.00