Lustre – Phantom LP

Nordvis presents, for the first time on vinyl: Lustre’s “Phantom”. Previously only available in 300 copies as part of the limited “Blossom” CD boxset from 2015. As is always the case with Lustre, the music’s key components are slow, heavily textured, and keyboard-laden dirges – driven forward by simplistic and monotonous percussion and occasionally broken up by swarms of guitar distortion. The doomy and droning riffs are repeated at length but always embedded in an ever-changing soundscape that never gets dull. The keyboards, guitars, and drums often bleed into each other to the extent that it occasionally sounds more ambient than metal. a darker turn than the preceding releases – instead of majestic and regal ambience, one could say that Nachtzeit went back to the minimalist lo-fi black metal of early works such as “Nightspirit”.