Artist: NACHTMYSTIUM
Album: INSTINCT DECAY VINYL (LP)

Year: 2006/ 2011
Media type: LP

NACHTMYSTIUM have been dwelling within the U.S. black metal underground for a period of time in which this enigma have clearly spearheaded themselves as one of North America’s most prominent acts within the scene. Where in the beginning, we witnessed NACHTMYSTIUM portray a bleak sound-picture by incorporating the many facets that became synonymous with the brand of traditional, raw and primitive black metal that was surfacing from these shores, it was quite evident that the promise that such an act showed in it’s early stages, was just a mere warning of what was inevitably to come. Surely though, NACHTMYSTIUM have always shown their distinct histrionics on their interpretation on how they liked to portray their black metal art. Through morose and mournful hymns that displayed a scenario where sadness and hatred were the two dominating emotions that bled from band leader Azentrius’ instrument, this vision that he has conjured up many years ago, has reached it’s phoenix with the surfacing of the latest NACHTMYSTIUM observation, Instinct:Decay. With “outside” influences such as PINK FLOYD (a prominent influential artist consistent within NACHTMYSTIUM’S repertoire, EARTH, and even SUNN 0))) (an act in which NACHTMYSTIUM have shared the stage with), such influences that have been incorporated within the NACHTMYSTIUM sound have helped take this band’s sound to new levels and new perspectives respectively. Overall, Instinct:Decay will future solidify NACHTMYSTIUM’S position within the U.S. black metal elite alongside other black metal artists as XASTHUR, LEVIATHAN, KRIEG, and THRALLDOM, artists in which NACHTMYSTIUM share a comradeship with, all while re-defining, and re-shaping, the future of black metal.

SIDE A:

01. Instinct
02. A Seed For Suffering
03. Keep Them Open
04. Chosen By No One
05. Circumvention

SIDE B:

06. Eternal Ground
07. The Antichrist Messiah
08. Here's To Hoping
09. Abstract Nihilism
10. Decay