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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sonorous USBM,
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This review is from: Instinct: Decay (Audio CD)
This is one of the best USBM albums I've heard in some time. It's very spacey, and heavily distorted, yet recalls a bit of the magic of classics like Pure Holocaust and In The Nightside Eclipse. Nachtmystium's bittersweet melodies twist like barbed wire into a black metal kalleidoscope of emotions. While melody is typically maintained by fast arpeggios, structural intricacies writhe beneath simple tonal patterns, reflecting a frustrated artist searching his soul to create something great. What this band creates is space. No sound travels its full destination without being met with an ambient shrill or reverberation, creating almost a virtual landscape that shudders like a cold introvert between Burzum-esque minimalism and grinding sludge, peppered with sobbing, distorted psyche-rock guitars. Nachtmystium lifts an atmosphere with simple musical techniques, and allows it to soar exhuberantly over black metal conventions, while kicking up foul life below to breathe in for a "sound." The vocalist is sufficiently passionate, although unassuming. I think I heard him hit a neat falsetto once, but his scream is so muddled in the production it doesn't matter much.
Nachtmystium casts aside phrases like "simplicity" and "progression" to define their music, and play with assertive individuality. They really only lack a concrete sense of theme. Lots of wandering dissonant phrases that segue between cosmic, strategic black metal, and riffs that could easily be NWOBHM. But, what could otherwise be seen as a cheesy collage of influences is actually strung together in irreputable coherance before being drowned out in seething, droning distortion. Nachmystium departs before introducing itself, leaving a very subliminal impression.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Of the Best Black Metal,
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This review is from: Instinct: Decay (Audio CD)
Nachtmystium did wonderfully in breaking outside the typical black metal sound. This album is an exceptional journey. It slows down and speeds up, has guitar solos! remains heavy as hell, but makes me admire them a lot for not remaining confined in a box, rather integrating different techniques...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome,
By Nate Christy "theantichristy" (Alexandria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Instinct: Decay (Audio CD)
"Instinct: Decay" was probably my favorite releases of 2006, every minute of this album is brilliant! Nachtmystium really redefined their sound and found their own unique sound.
Lo-fi primordial Norwegian black metal buzz curred with weed smoke and loaded with psilocybin. Songs mellifluously transforming from thrashy, harsh riffs into gloriously reverb-soaked metallic crescendos. This is black metal psychedelic art. For fans of everything from Pink Floyd to Darkthrone. So good!
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