Nachtmystium - As Made
This two-song single was released just prior to Silencing Machine, and is composed of one original track and one cover song. The original track, “As Made,” is very Industrial sounding. It still has strong Black Metal roots, but the mechanized drumming and the repetitive guitar-work plants this song more in the Nine Inch Nails side of Industrial. Compared to the material on Silencing Machine, this is very raw and aggressive. The material on the album is far more polished than this. The rougher production adds to the abrasiveness of the song, so although it isn’t as clean, it’s still effective. While “As Made” is very raw and aggressive, the other song is not. Song number two is a cover of Joy Division’s “The Eternal.” You go from harsh and abrasive to slower and mellow. Face it, you’re never going to hear Joy Division described as “brutal” or “aggressive” by anyone with intact hearing. It’s quite a contrast. The songs are both well performed but the starkness of the differences between the two makes reviewing this very hard. On one hand, this is a very diverse release. On the other hand, there are only two songs here. The fact that they sound so radically different from each other makes this EP sound inconsistent. This could have easily been two different bands. If you told me that this was a split-EP featuring Nachtmystium and some Goth Metal band, I would have totally believed it. While musically good, the lack of consistency brings this down for me. If there was a common thread between the two songs, this would have been a stronger release. This was just too schizophrenic.
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