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There were two acts that used the name ‘Xasthur’, one hailed from the United States of America and the other, from Singapore. Both were one-man projects that belonged to the black metal genre.

Xasthur was an American one-man band formed in Alhambra, California in 1995 by Scott Conner, who goes by the pseudonym “Malefic”. Although similar in terms of low-fi production and the wearing of corpse paint, musically and lyrically Xasthur’s focus is usually not on paganism, Satanism or anti-Christian blasphemy – as is common in the genre – but rather on astral projection, darkness, despair, suicide, hate, and death.

The first album Nocturnal Poisoning (recorded April-September 2001) was jointly released by independent record labels Blood Fire Death and Red Stream in 2002. Southern Lord Records re-released a remastered double-LP version in 2005. In the next years, Xasthur’s full-length albums were released through labels such as Displeased Records, Moribund Cult, Total Holocaust Records, Battle Kommand Records and Hydra Head Records. Apart from demo and EP recordings, Xasthur has released several split albums with other black metal acts such as Orosius, Acid Enema, Nachtmystium, Striborg, Angra Mainyu, Leviathan and Nortt.

Malefic has toured with Sunn O))) and has joined Nachtmystium on stage, but stated in an interview for Pitchfork Media that he “will always keep Xasthur a band that will not play live”.

In March of 2010, Malefic stated via Xasthur’s official blog that he would release one final album and put an end to the legend known as Xasthur.
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  • prick_baxter

    There IS new material on the nightmares at dawn, more than half of the songs are ones that had never been heard before. It would help if some people actually held the CD in their hand instead of just assuming what it is. There are not track names that are changed either.

    14 days ago

  • FuckingPlague

    metalmonkey86, i think you don't know how to read... :(

    14 days ago

  • metalmonkey86

    also, just for anyone who didn't already know, the name of Malefic's new project is Nocturnal Poisoning but there are no official releases as of yet.

    14 days ago

  • metalmonkey86

    "Nightmares at Dawn" is a COMPILATION, there is no new material in it and no one ever said there would be from the beginning. It is a re-release of tracks from A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors, To Violate the Oblivious, and some other things from around those releases, with changed track names. It is not fake.

    14 days ago

  • FuckingPlague

    it is fake... http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/tontraeger/cd/cd/xasthur-nightmares-at-dawn.html check previews of the tracks here "fucking idiots"

    15 days ago

  • Netto3242

    Nightmares at Dawn is a fantastic compilation, and It's not fucking fake[2]

    16 days ago

  • purplehazethc

    v Not really. 0/10, not even mad.

    18 days ago

  • PiecesOfQuiet

    tinybitchpants is a pretty good troll imo

    23 days ago
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