NACHTMYSTIUM Prepares For North American Tour; Announces Release Date For New Full-Length Album
Century Media Records reports:
Chicago’s ever-evolving
NACHTMYSTIUM will join their similarly sonically expansive brethren in BORIS and TORCHE for a week-long run through parts of Canada and the US.
The tour will see the band play from Montreal to Milwaukee in mid-July, when they can then pull from both the Worldfall EP and their June 8th full-length Century Media debut, Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1. Visit
myspace.com/nachtmystium to sample some new tracks.
Made available exclusively through CM Distro and iTunes, the recently released Worldfall EP features two new tracks, a re-recorded track from Demise and two cover songs. Worldfall is a prelude to the
Sanford Parker (
RWAKE, MINSK, PELICAN, etc.) produced Assassins. The phrase “expect the unexpected” is often used but it could not be more applicable to Nachtmystium’s first venture with their new label.
Co-founder/guitarist
Blake Judd recently described the album: “If you stripped all the leads and E-bow stuff off of Instinct, it’s just a raging black metal record. Do the same thing to this one, and it’s still a psych-y, borderline rock album.”
From the addition of studio drummer
Tony Laureano (ex-
NILE, DIMMU BORGIR, 1349) to the insanely heavy Parker production, Assassins is still firmly rooted in heavy metal but the 70s rock influences are unmistakable and the album-closing trilogy, 'Seasick', only hints at one-dimension of the band’s new direction. You can hear and see it for yourself at any one of the following dates:
July
12 - La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC
13 - Babylon - Ottawa, ON
14 - Lee’s Palace - Toronto, ON
15 - Tralf - Buffalo, NY
16 - Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH
17 - Diesel - Pittsburgh, PA
18 - St. Andrews Hall - Detroit, MI
19 - Turner Hall - Milwaukee, WI
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