Southern Lord Records re-released a remastered double-LP version in 2005. The band's first album, Nocturnal Poisoning (recorded April–September 2001), was released by the Blood Fire Death label in 2002. While the original of that tape was destroyed, some tracks appeared on re-releases of later albums.įor a self-released split album with Orosius, Conner was joined on drums and vocals by friend Mike Pardi from the band Draconis, who used the stage name "Ritual." Subsequently, Xasthur became Conner's solo project, although Khaija "Blood Moon" Ausar (of Dacon and Crimson Moon) later appeared as a session musician on the song "A Curse for the Lifeless" (from Nortt/Xasthur) and the EP Xasthur, Mark "M.H." Hunter performed on Defective Epitaph and All Reflections Drained, and Marissa Nadler sang on Portal of Sorrow.īefore releasing their first official full-length album in 2002, Xasthur recordings were distributed in limited editions, which were later re-released by the Swedish Total Holocaust Records and other small underground labels.
A 10 track tape of these early rehearsals was circulated on the trade scene. Initially, the band began rehearsing and recording in a home studio with an unstable lineup. Xasthur was created in December 1995 in Alhambra, California, after Conner had played with several local death metal groups in Southern California. The latter name referred to a celestial deity he read about in a book on the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería. Conner explained that he found the former name in a Necronomicon paperback and believed that it referred to "a demoness who kills people in their sleep".
The name "Xasthur" is a combination of " Hastur" and "Xenaoth". The first album with this new style was entitled Subject to Change, released in 2016. However, he began using the name once again in 2015 to instead perform acoustic neofolk music. Conner formed Xasthur in 1995 and released eight studio albums of black metal by 2010, when he announced the end of the project. Xasthur ( / ˈ z æ s t ər/) is the project of American musician Scott "Malefic" Conner.
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