[EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM] NIGHTSATAN and The Loops of Doom: Deranged & beautiful laser future past

It is with great honour, pride and joy Halifax Collect is able to present to you Nightsatan and The Loops of Doom streamed in its entirety (below), sure to captivate your mind and imagination. 

When bestowed upon me, this original movie soundtrack from Finland immediately tugged at my heart strings and set in motion images and feelings from my past that were originally cemented by my exposure and fanatic engagement with '80s horror, sci-fi, synth and keyboard driven atmospheric soundtracks and of course, metal. I was taken aback by Nightsatan's heartbeat-like flow and dark mystery much like John Carpenter's music in The Thing and Prince Of Darkness, but in the hands of this synth-trio from Turku, Finland, Nightsatan and The Loops of Doom offers something far richer in mood, ripe with ideas and evolved musically, as only serious musicians and songwriters can muster. And let's be honest here, Carpenter is a true master and inspiration, but a film director, screenwriter, producer first and foremost. This is where Nightsatan comes in and excels!

Nightsatan is a full-blown and air-tight concept from top to bottom. Aesthetically menacing, impressive, bloody and often hilarious. As it is written in their very own annal of history: In the beginning, the synth warrior Wolf Rami envisioned the band's music as "the soundtrack to Miami Vice meets heavy metal." End quote. You see, Nightsatan and The Loops of Doom is so much more than that. Nightsatan's cinematic musical leanings soon collided with the obvious, their full-blown film soundtrack (the one you are listening to below!) demanded an actual film to accompany it. Who better to star in it but the band itself?! "Directed by Chrzu, better known as the director of animated films such as Curse of the Remote Island (2008), Nightsatan and The Loops of Doom is a proud tribute to vintage Italian post-apocalyptic sci-if. It is a very unusual short epic, full of sex, violence, and general sense of wonder" (per PR release). Watch the movie trailer at the end of the post.

Furthermore, below the album stream you'll find comments and impression from noted experts.


Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom is out on Svart Records (site), order here. Nightsatan's facebook.

*** This is a perfect score for horror movie adventure in the Amazon with zombie cyborgs wreaking havoc that have escaped from a hidden laboratory where a recluse disfigured insane scientist with a rare deadly skin disease plots to take over the world and cure his horrible skin condition and reclaim his daughter from the government that have taken her to get close to him and his experiments. Dr Night Satan. I can hear the despair for the future.  Fabio Frizzi (Zombie and more..) is all over this which is a really good thing. Also there is some Goblin in there. Unavoidable when doing '80s synth soundscapes. Nothing beats vintage synths and 4/4 beat from an old drum machine and some epic arrangements. I call it Apocalypsecore. I can hear that this is going to be some great '80s synth journey. - Krummi Björgvinsson - musician and ever moving renascence man with a penchant for gloom and dystopia (twitter). His most recent endeavours of note are Legend (band) and Döpur (solo).

*** When presented with an opportunity to take a breather from my recent country music binge of late, this was a really pleasant spin. Off the bat, I immediately got a Vangelis/Blade Runner vibe and atmo from it, and it stuck with it. The sci-fi element is dominating, but the horror element is certainly there, some Goblin, a touch of Carpenter, toss in a great homage to the vintage Elektonik Sataniks synths and sounds of early Depeche Mode, OMD and Kraftwerk and last, but not least, the old Amiga style demoing and tracking. There were some instant favorites, like "Secret Of The Mystery" and "Rejects of the Wasteland", but as a whole this soundtrack is nothing short of amazing. The film immediately reminded me of the great Castellari classic I nuovi barbari from '83, a film so bad it's awesome. The costumes and effects are fantastic and I specially liked the vocoder voice of Mazathoth. Great fun! Love it to deth! - Atli Jarl - Musician, metal, horror, sci-fi scholar, ThinkPad enthusiast, trucker, butcher, Decepticon (twitter)

*** While Umberto, Zombi, Ensemble Economique and Zombie Zombie above have looked to slasher Horror and Giallo movies, Nightsatan have ploughed a slightly different trough for inspiration, that of Z-grade post apocalyptic sci-fi films that abounded in the early and mid '80s. Films such as Endgame, Stryker and Warriors Of the Wasteland, were a magpie mix of influences such as Mad Max and The Warriors, where future society had broken down (usually to nuclear war) and the survivors often sported natty leather stud ensembles with matching tribal facepaint. These films would eventually reach their zenith with the cult film Steel Dawn in 1987 with Patrick Swayze.As with all these "imagined" soundtracks, the question is never how original they are, but rather do they manage to truly capture the "feel" and "atmosphere" of these genre styles. And on that score Nightsatan manage to acquit themselves very well with this album. there are plenty low level moog style bass throbs and drones that are accompanied by chewy, pitch shifting melody lines and arpeggios, using synth sounds that are definitely '80s sounding in their clarity and make up, all "zingy" and "neon." You definitely hear some of the traces of the '80s soundtrack work of Jan Hammer and Tangerine Dream in there along with some of that post-Moroder hi-NRG thumps when it picks up the pace. There are even moments when it gets nasty as they add some heavy guitars which are a nice counterpoint to the dreamy electronics. - Bob Cluness - Musicologist, film theorist, pop culture sponge and editor of the consistently impressive Reykjavík Sex Farm! (twitter)

*** The album is kind of a soundtrack and kind of a concept album loosely built around a 25 minute short film. This means that the soundtrack album is a good 20 minutes longer than the film itself. The film is actually far, far better than I had expected. The story would fit on a napkin but it’s basically about a trio of cannibal weirdos travelling a futuristic desert hellscape, fighting cyborg monsters and saving people trapped as looped samples. There’s full-frontal nudity, gore, stylish production design, goofy humor and plenty of surrealism. So far - so Italian.
It's an excellent pastiche of that genre of music. And they are far more skilled as musicians and composers than 90% of the people splashing in that pool of decomposing zombie guts.
Three Finnish boys with a sincere love of John Carpenter, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi and Tangerine Dream team up to salute this style of music and tame their rampant nostalgia into a new pleasing form while surreptitiously masturbating over the whole thing. - Ragnar Egilsson: Culture critic, copywriter, translator, connoisseur of sketchy, offensive, questionable and thought-provoking pop culture in its many formats. 

Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom - Trailer from Twisted Films on Vimeo.