My first experience with Nachtmystium was back in 2002 through their ultra grim, low-fi, true to the bone, fuck fest of dullness called, 'Reign of the Malicious.' I said, 'Screw this band' after hearing that one.
Five or so years later the Nachtmystium named popped up again due to the positive response from their third release, 'Instinct:Decay.' It was however not until sometime after the release of their fourth full-length, 'Assassins: Black Meddle Part I' that I finally got caught up with these guys and quickly found out that they had made some amazing changes in the years since their debut. Naturally of course, Nachtmystium were branded sell-outs and apparently people don't even consider them black metal any longer. Right...
Following the stunning Assassins album was this EP, 'Worldfall,' which shows a slightly different style of music on each of the five songs. The title track is a unique post black metal styled song that's dreamy and psychedelic in it's execution and the guitar work is just absolutely beautiful (never thought I'd use that word in a Nachtmystium review). 'Depravity' is a grinding viscerally evil attack of blast beats, heavy bass guitar, vicious screams and malicious guitar work. If this isn't black metal then I surely don't know what is. The third song is a re-recording from the, 'Demise' full-length, and while I don't remember the original song, I must admit once again were treated to an absolutely stunning black metal song here with interesting Moog synth effects, which probably weren't in the original version.
The final two songs are cover songs from Death in June and Goatsnake. DiJ is surely one of my most favorite bands/projects and to hear one of Douglas P's neo folk songs turned into some sort of strange metal song is damn interesting, but ultimately you just can't beat the original no matter who you are. The Goatsnake cover is, on the other hand, completely stunnin' traditional/stoner doom metal at it's finest and while I haven't heard the original it definitely makes me curious to search down the album it's on.
Since this EP the band has released an additional EP called, 'Doomsday Derelicts,' which I still need to get my hands on as well they'll be releasing, 'Addicts: Black Meddle Part II' in early June. I can't wait.
If like me you heard Nachtmystium in their early days and were completely turned off then I absolutely implore you to check out anything and everything they've done from, 'Eulugy IV' onwards.
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