Swedish Atmo/Ambient black metal band LUSTRE will release the next 26th August “A Thirst for Summer Rain”. LUSTRE’s eighth album is one more milestone added to a rich discography that has been unfolding masterfully since 2008. The album is the first of Nachtzeit’s releases to have been recorded, mixed, and mastered in a professional studio.
“A Thirst For Summer Rain” has a balmy, ethereal ambience crux but is coated in the eerie and harrowing darkness of ’90s Black Metal.

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Produced at Odeholm Audio and featuring cover artwork by Benjamin König of Sperber Illustrationen. The CD and digital version come on 26th August, and the vinyl is due for release on 28th October.

LUSTRE was founded 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 always 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.