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Swedish atmospheric/ethereal black metal act Lustre has just unveiled the brand new single "Thirst". The single is taken from the upcoming eighth album entitled A Thirst For Summer Rain, which is due to be out on the 26th of August via Nordvis Produktion. You can give a listen to "Thirst" in the player below.
As the initial waves of soothing keyboards come rolling in, it is immediately clear that Lustre still adheres to its musical tradition of dreamlike minimalism. However, when the remaining instruments enter the picture, the soundscape in which they are framed is likely to come as quite a surprise for long-time followers of the band. A Thirst For Summer Rain is the first of Nachtzeit's releases to have been recorded, mixed, and mastered in a professional studio - a move which grants the album a depth previously unseen in Lustre. Yet, all the elements that brought the project to widespread prominence are firmly in place. A Thirst For Summer Rain has a core of warm, ethereal ambience, but is coated in the eerie and harrowing darkness of 90s black metal.
Lustre was founded in 2008 by Swedish musician Nachtzeit. After garnering increasing underground renown with his first three albums, Nachtzeit signed with Nordvis in 2012 - a collaboration now celebrating its tenth anniversary, making Lustre one of the longest-running partnerships in the label's history.
Nachtzeit has since made a name for himself with his masterful use of musical minimalism: slow, heavily textured, and keyboard-laden dirges driven forward by monotonous percussion, occasionally broken up by swarms of guitar distortion. The doomy and droning riffs are repeated at length but permanently embedded in an ever-changing soundscape that never gets dull. The keyboards, guitars, and drums often bleed into each other to the extent where it occasionally sounds more ambient than metal.
These elements have hitherto been embedded in a stripped-down, pale, lo-fi, and reverb-drenched production. And this is where A Thirst For Summer Rain - coincidentally, about hope, faith, and inspiration during dark times - deviates from the classic formula, marking what can only be seen as a new chapter of Lustre. Link
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