NACHTMYSTIUM

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: USA
Style: gritty savage depressive black metal

as title suggests, this is the earliest and certainly most underground recordings of controversial Azentrius' entity, assembled from the original four track tapes, collecting the debut Holocaust of Eternity demo [2000] songs, tracks from the split demo with Zalnik [2001], and three additional earlier unpublished numbers tracked at the same or similar time, capturing the essence of extremely raw unpolished black metal, preserving authentic sound without any editions, and standing as an essential testimony to the roots of uncompromising genre, a grim yet fascinating document of formative chaos, where primitive aggression and eerie atmosphere collide, foreshadowing the creative evolution that would later define Nachtmystium's unique, boundary-pushing identity; later US pressing comes with Darkthrone Hans Siste Vinter cover and rare vintage photos in the booklet