NACHTMYSTIUM

That intro annoys the shit out of me. It's like waiting for someone to complete a really boring story just so you can move the conversation on to something exciting. Except you have to wait until track 3 arrives with its 'Queens of the Stone Age-alike riff' for something resembling interest. It's a good track, but pails into insignificance upon the arrival of the first disco-black metal song 'No Funeral'. It's my favourite metal song of the year thus far. The rest of the album, whilst not quite up to the lunacy level of that track, continues the theme of experimentation with post-rock psychedelic being the obvious stand-out influence along with country, punk, rock and roll, new wave etc. It's an impressive piece of work curiously marred by the opening couple of songs. So, continuing the tradition of Nachtmystium dragging black metal (whether it wants to or not) into newer realms is to be celebrated, but I get the feeling that it's going to be a couple of albums before we really see what can be achieved by this group once they've let go of the past. For now, a very worthy listen but not an entirely essential one.

LABEL:

FORMAT:

Candlelight Records

Album

ADDICTS: BLACK MEDDLE PART 2

Review by Steve Cowan

RUNNING TIME:

48:01

RELEASE DATE:

21st June 2010

TRACK LISTING

1) Cry For Help
2) High On Hate
3) Nightfall
4) No Funeral
5) Then Fires
6) Addicts
7) The End Is Eternal
8) Blood Trance Fusion
9) Ruined Life Continuum
10) Every Last Drop
11) Macrocosmic

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:

USA

"...an impressive piece of work..."