ZEMIAL (Gr) – ‘Nykta’ CD

One of the most widely respected names in the international metal underground, Greece’s ZEMIAL make their long-awaited return to the full-length front with the vast ‘n’ visual NYKTA. Seven years on from their last album, 2006’s towering In Monumentum, ZEMIAL’s highly anticipated NYKTA stylistically ranges the band’s entire, 25-year history but with bold, new strokes entirely fitting with the band’s ever-evolving lyricism. From gritty blackthrash to epic heavy metal, from art-music experimentation to moments of prog-inflected psychedelia, from soundscape ambience to realms completely uncategorizable and many mesmerizing points in between, NYKTA displays ZEMIAL in all their austere, multihued glory