Rowan Oak + Nachtmystium collaboration demo

Blake Judd's home mixes of the "Blight Privilege' LP, 2024, prior to sending it to Ken Sorceron for mixing at his professional studio (with his professional skill set applied).   Blake Judd engineered the majority of 'Blight Privilege' and tracked all his guitars, bass, synths and vocals by himself, edited them and prepped the stems for proper mixing (as he's untrained in this area of recording at this stage in the game).  However, that didn't stop him  from making his own reference mixes for Ken to use as a guide of what the band wanted it to sound like in terms of where everything sat within the mix, vocal effects, etc.   

Quite remarkable what a difference some of the tracks have.   We hear this (as the band), as the more feral and honest sounding of the two versions.   No disrespect to the actual albums mix, this was a standard set by prior Nachtmystium recordings that we were expected to live up to.  However, being fans of raw black metal our entire lives more or less, we felt it necessary to put this out for fans and as a testament to the first album in 25 years that Blake Judd engineered and recorded 90% of entirely alone.   

https://nachtmystium.band to purchase a digital download ($5!) or a cassette (available soon)

6 - The Arduous March

Unreleased bonus track from the 'Blight Privilege' sessions, included as a 2nd bonus track alongside the band's mix of 'Banished' (the bonus track from the exclusive artbook CD edition of 'Blight Priviliege', released by Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge, Nov. 1st, 2024)

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9 - Blue Line (Shadow Stepper Dub) *bonus track

2021 revisiting of the original "Demise" 2003 LP recording.   The core of these tracks is the original album in it's entirety, but atop the original, terribly thin-sounding guitars we've laid new tracks, recorded properly on all guitar parts and applied a new (and audible this time!) bass track, as well as some synths and samples that were intended to be on the original that we didn't get a chance to add before the album was mixed / ready for release. (mainly due to lack of ease of doing such things in 2003....recording like cavemen on an old 8-track ADAT machine and a 16 channel Mackie mixer with a couple of rack mounted effects....)

The new performances are played *exactly* as they were played on the original recording.  We did not "update" the songs in any way aside from making them sound thicker and as originally intended.   

Tape and digital release available at https://nachtmystium.band/music

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NACHTMYSTIUM Intro - Solitary Voyage 2021

NACHTMYSTIUM Intro 2021

2005 full-length version of the 2004 "Eulogy IV" MLP (originally released on CD by Total Holocaust Records, Sweden. RIP!)  Southern Lord Recordings USA licensed 'Eulogy IV' and reissued the album in a limited edition CD pressing (numbered, 1000 copies) that features the original EP's five songs plus four bonus tracks including a live cover of stoner / drone legends EARTH's 'Charioteer: Temple Song' from their legendary "Pentastar: In The Style of Demons" LP from the mid 90's (recorded live in 2003 at a show in Chicago), a cover of Burzum's 'Stemmen Fra Tarnet' featuring Neill "Imperial" Jameson of KRIEG / WELTMACHT on vocals recorded during the demo sessions for 'Instinct: Decay' in summer, 2005.  Also included is a cover of Von's legendary black metal classic 'Satanic Blood' (recorded during the 'Eulogy IV' session and originally featured as a bonus track on the first pressing of this release on LP by German label Perverted Taste, in 2004)   Closing out this edition is two live tracks (played as one live) at a December 2004 Chicago show at Metro, opening for Satyricon on the 'Volcano' tour.  Our biggest show to date (and 6th ever at the time!)

Enjoy!

NACHTMYSTIUM Intro 2021

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