NACHTMYSTIUM TOURING WITH MARDUK, RECORDING BLACK MEDDLE, PT. II, GENERALLY BEING AWESOME

Chicagoan Blake Judd has announced that his perpetually-revolving band of blackened psychonauts Nachtmystium will enter the studio in January to record the follow-up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I. Judd said the band will again be working with producer extraordinaire Sanford Parker and is demoing some material with him this month. Judd said the new material is "reminiscent of Assassins with more of a rock and roll edge" and cited his love for industrial icons Ministry and Kiling Joke as influences. The new record is expected to drop in March or April 2010.

More good news for Nachtmystium fans: long-time Swedish black metal blasphemers Marduk are taking the Nacht' on the road as direct support this winter. Actually, this is good news for everybody since Marduk's (and front-man Mortuus', whose side project Funeral Mist's Maranatha is one of the year's best – and strangest – black metal releases, by the way) inability to attain visas earlier this year pretty much ran the much-lauded Blackenedfest straight into the ground. Frenchmen Merrimack, Pittsburgh's Mantic Ritual and NYC's Black Anvil fill out the rest of the bill.

Tour dates and poster preview after the jump.




Marduk with Nachtmystium, Merrimack, Mantic Ritual and Black Anvil - U.S. Plague 2009 Tour Dates:

Nov 19 2009 - Sterling Hotel - Allentown, Pennsylvania
Nov 20 2009 - The Palladium - Worcester, Massachusetts
Nov 21 2009 - Les Foufounes - Montreal, Quebec
Nov 22 2009 - Wreck Room - Toronto, Ontario
Nov 23 2009 - Sonar - Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 24 2009 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 25 2009 - Brass Mug - Tampa, Florida
Nov 27 2009 - The Bar - New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 28 2009 - Red 7 - Austin, Texas
Nov 29 2009 - Ridglea Theater - Ft. Worth, Texas
Nov 30 2009 - The Marquee - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dec 2 2009 - Launchpad - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dec 3 2009 - The Sets - Tempe, Arizona
Dec 4 2009 - The Key Club - Hollywood, California
Dec 5 2009 - Ramona Mainstage - San Marcos, California
Dec 6 2009 - DNA Lounge - San Francisco, California
Dec 7 2009 - Satyricon - Portland, Oregon
Dec 8 2009 - Studio Seven - Seattle, Washington
Dec 10 2009 - Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom - Denver, CO
Dec 11 2009 - Riot Room - Kansas City, Missouri
Dec 12 2009 - Reggie’s Rock Club - Chicago, Illinois
Dec 13 2009 - Station 4 - St. Paul, Minnesota
Dec 14 2009 - Blondie’s - Detroit, Michigan
Dec 15 2009 - Peabody’s - Cleveland, Ohio
Dec 16 2009 - Gramercy Theater - New York, New York