Xasthur

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风格: #重金属　#黑金属
地区: United States of America 美国

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Xasthur乐队是美国一个由Scott Conner（曾用名“Malefic”）单人组建的黑金属项目。虽然同样采用粗糙的音色，画着尸脸，但Xasthur的音乐和歌词并不像通常那样多表达些异教、撒旦和反基督等题材，而是主要表达灵体飞行、黑暗、绝望、自杀、仇恨和死亡等等。

虽然Malefic本人曾和Sunn O)))乐队共同巡演，并和Nachtmystium乐队同台演出，但《Pitchfork Media》杂志的一次采访证明他“将永远让Xasthur作一支不演出的乐队”。

Xasthur这个名字是“Hastur”和“Xenaoth”两个词的组合。Malefic解释说前一个词是他在一本平装版《死灵之书》里找到的，他认为这个词是指一个专杀睡梦中的人的恶魔；后一个词是他在一本关于加勒比黑人的Santeria教的书中读到的，是指一个天神。

Xasthur是Conner和南加州当地的几个死亡金属乐队玩过之后，于1995年12月在美国加州阿尔罕布拉成立。最初，乐队是以一个不稳定的阵容在一间家庭录音室里排练和录音。市场上曾流传着记录他们早期排练录音的10轨磁带，但现在母带已经被销毁了，上面一些曲目在他的后来专辑中被再版发行。

为了和Orosius乐队录制拼盘专辑，Malefic的朋友——来自Draconis乐队的Mike Pardi（曾用艺名Ritual）——来帮他承担了鼓和唱。此后，Xasthur变成了Malefic的个人项目。虽然Khaija "Blood Moon" Ausar（Dacon and Crimson Moon乐队）出现在专辑《A Curse for the Lifeless and Xasthur》的演奏者名单中。在2002年的首张全长专辑发行之前，该专辑是限量发行的，后来被瑞典Total Holocaust Records公司和几家地下小厂牌再版发行过。

首张专辑《Nocturnal Poisoning》（录制于2001年四月到九月）由独立厂牌Blood Fire Death公司和Red Stream公司2002年联合发行。2005年Southern Lord Records公司又发行了该专辑的双LP重录版。下一年，Xasthur的新专辑又通过Displeased Records、Moribund Cult、Total Holocaust Records、Battle Kommand Records、Hydra Head Records等厂牌联合发行。除了demo和EP，Xasthur已和Orosius、Acid Enema、Nachtmystium、Striborg、Angra Mainyu、Leviathan、和Nortt等等一些黑金属乐队发行过多张拼盘专辑。Xasthur还创作过一些向Ildjarn、Burzum和Judas Iscariot致敬的作品，并收录在一些合辑当中。此外，Malefic还和他人合作了一个嗡鸣金属项目Sunn O)))和一个黑金属超级组合Twilight and Mord乐队（和Lugubre乐队成员合作）。

2010年3月26日，Malefic宣布Xasthur的第八张全长专辑《Portal of Sorrow》开始发售。他同时宣布这将是他以Xasthur名义发行的最后一张专辑，据他所说他将结束Xasthur这个音乐项目。至于结束Xasthur的原因，他解释说是缺乏动力，他也证实他不会重建Xasthur。他还表示他正在着手另一个音乐项目，但不是金属项目。

新项目名字叫Nocturnal Poisoning，是他2002年专辑的名字，新团首张专辑计划在2013年发行。

2010年9月30日，Malefic以Xasthur名义发行了第一个也是唯一一个MV，《To Violate the Oblivious》专辑中的那首《Walker of Dissonant Worlds》。

（翻译 by 安葬）

Xasthur was an American black metal project that was founded by and consisted of 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.

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".

The name "Xasthur" is a combination of "Hastur" and "Xenaoth". Malefic explains that he found the former name in a Necronomicon paperback and believes it refers to "a demoness who kills people in their sleep". The latter name refers to a celestial deity he read about in a book on the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería.

Xasthur was created in December 1995, in Alhambra, Calif. (U.S.), after Conner had played with several local death metal groups in Southern California. Initially, the band began rehearsing and recording in a home studio with an unstable line-up. A 10-track tape of these early rehearsals was circulated on the trade scene. While the original of that tape is now destroyed, some tracks appear on re-releases of later albums.

For the self-released split album with Orosius, Malefic was joined on drums and vocals by friend Mike Pardi from the band Draconis, who used the stage-name "Ritual." Subsequently, Xasthur became Malefic's solo project, although Khaija "Blood Moon" Ausar (of Dacon and Crimson Moon) appeared as session musician on A Curse for the Lifeless and Xasthur. Before releasing its first official full-length album in 2002, recordings were distributed in limited editions, which were later re-released by the Swedish Total Holocaust Records and other small underground labels.

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. Xasthur has contributed to tribute albums to Ildjarn, Burzum and Judas Iscariot, and appeared on various compilation albums. Additionally, Malefic has collaborated among others with the drone metal project Sunn O))) and the black metal "supergroup" Twilight and Mord (with Lugubre members).

On March 26, 2010, Malefic announced that he was wholesaling Xasthur's eighth studio album, Portal of Sorrow. He also announced that this would be the last album under the Xasthur moniker, as he stated that he was dissolving the Xasthur musical project. Malefic cited a lack of motivation, among other aspects, for him ending Xasthur; he also stated that there will not be a reunion of this band. Malefic remarked that another musical project was in the works, this one not being a metal project.

The new project is called Nocturnal Poisoning, named after his 2002 album. The first album is planned to be released in 2013.

Malefic released the first, and only, music video under the Xasthur name, for the song "Walker of Dissonant Worlds" from the To Violate the Oblivious album on September 30, 2010.

Influences

Malefic has noted other one-man black metal projects such as Burzum and Graveland as an inspiration for his one-man approach: "the main way that Burzum inspired me (contrary to popular belief) was that he could do it all on his own-- why couldn't I?"

Last line-up

※ Malefic (Scott Conner) – vocals, lyrics, rhythm and lead guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, synthesizer, violin, cello

Past members

※ Khaija "Blood Moon" Ausar – Session Keyboards on "A Curse for the Lifeless" (split with Nortt) and on "Xasthur"

※ M.H. (Mark Hunter) – Vocals and Ambience (session musician on Defective Epitaph and All Reflections Drained)

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