Nachtmystium "Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1" Review

Artist: Nachtmystium
Title: Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Label: Century Media

Anyone who likes brutal metal that tries to push the boundaries of what is considered music rejoice! This album is for you. Nachtmystium takes aggressive and dark black metal and adds other influences to the mix resulting in an album that is aggressive, experimental, and energetic. A range of emotions on the spectrum of darkness, anger, isolation, and loneliness are conveyed through so many different ways on Assassins. The disc starts off with “One Of These Nights” which leaves the listener with sign of what is to come on the disc, great music! “Nights” gives way to “Assassins” which starts off the disc with a brutal edge “Assassins” also takes an unexpected but great turn after the 2nd chorus that leads to aggressive music without vocals and ending with synthesizer part. “Away From The Light” has a spooky and empty theme to it. “Your True Enemy” is a great song that conveys the anger that a person would feel when discovering their adversary. “Omnivore” has an a provocative march tempo and a foreboding guitar riff that makes you feel as if an evil thing is coming at you. “Seasick, Pt. 2: Oceanborne” has a saxophone part in it that makes every metalhead want a saxophone to become a permanent instrument in metal music. The song even sounds as if it could be in a video game or on a movie soundtrack. With aggression partnered with unexpected experimental ideas and a whole new outlook on brutal metal, “Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1” is a must have for any metalhead’s or music lover’s collection.