If you don’t know Mysticum: The Norwegian band is one of the pioneers of industrial black metal. The trio uses typical black metal riffs in the instrumental field, but combines them with a pounding drum computer that sounds quite deliberately artificial, adding a few synthesizers here and there. Although Mysticum was founded in the early 1990s, the output remains manageable: there are only two official studio albums – “In the Streams of Inferno” (1996) and “Planet Satan” (2014) – but several demos, splits and compilations. Unrecorded live album “Never Stop the Madness – The Roadburn Inferno”. The sound quality is good, as expected, the songs do not differ from the studio versions in the arrangements – the programmed drums finally set the basic structure, there is no room for spontaneity. But it’s nothing, a more than orderly work is “Never Stop the Madness” nonetheless.
By the way, the concert was recorded not only in sound, but also in pictures: therefore, in addition to a CD, a DVD is also part of the album. As on the cover, you can also see in the film recordings how the three musicians stand on podiums, on and behind which moving images take place. It’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, the image quality is pretty mou, some cuts also seem to happen rather arbitrarily. But if you consider the DVD only as an input, the whole package will fit.