Endless Dismal Moan - Lord of Nightmare (2006)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Endless Dismal Moan - Endless Dismal Moan (2004)
Endless Dismal Moan - Curse of Underground (2006)

More haunting, disturbing black metal from the late, great Takuya Tsutsui, aka Chaos 9, aka Endless Dismal Moan. Warp-speed drum machines blasts, unhinged shrieks, and a wall of guitar and keyboard dissonance. As with Grief, as long as this blog stays up, I'd expect the entire Endless Dismal Moan discography to end up on here, 'cause they're all legit some of the best, most intense records in the game, and nowhere near enough people listen to them.

Track listing:
1. Thirst for Pleasure
2. ISLNWD
3. Griefs
4. Thirst
5. Lord of Nightmare
6. Endless Dismal Moan (9 to Death)

Do I listen to DSBM because I'm miserable, or am I miserable because I listen to DSBM?

More along these lines:

Sortsind -
More Days (2001)

Alignak -
Mainlining Goats Blood (2005)

Endless Dismal Moan - Curse of Underground (2010)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Endless Dismal Moan - Endless Dismal Moan (2004)

Curse of Underground is the final collection of songs recorded by Chaos 9 before his suicide, and fittingly, it's without doubt the project's darkest, most disturbing record -- and it's up against some pretty goddamn stiff competition. Truly unnerving sounds from an unheralded master of depressive black metal.

7 tracks, titled "Curse 1" through "Curse 7"

Lord of nightmare

More black metal that might actually frighten you:

Malvery - Mortal Entrenchment
in Requiem (1999)

Pyha -
The Haunted House (2008)

Endless Dismal Moan - Endless Dismal Moan (2004)

Sickly, unsettling sounds from this Japanese solo project. I think of Endless Dismal Moan as the Japanese Xasthur -- dissonant, blown out guitars, ghoulish rasps, and drum machine that lends the whole thing a homemade, highly personal sound. Also, the drums are often programmed at insanely fast tempos, because if you're gonna have a drum machine, why subject it to human constraints? Sadly, the highly disturbing quality of the music is compounded by the fact that Chaos 9, the creator of this project, committed suicide by gunshot in 2008.

Track listing:
1. Spell
2. Obsession
3. From Omnious
4. Calamitous Box
5. Goddess of Death
6. Vampire
7. Gloom
8. Endless Dismal Moan 2
9. Talking Mind (EDM 3)
10. Abyss
11. Chaos Intro
12. Kitigai
13. Bloody Chaos
14. Endless Dismal Moan
15. Calamity
16. Death Odor
17. Outro

Curse