Hysteron-Proteron (Stripped) Nostromo

• 1 Rude Awakening (Stripped) 07:01
• 2 Epitomize (Stripped) 04:04
• 3 End's Eve (Stripped) 04:26
• 4 Sunset Motel (Stripped) 05:16
• 5 Selfish Blues (Stripped) 07:19
• 6 Turned Black (Stripped) 06:53
• Total Runtime 34:59

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In 2004, Nostromo caught everyone off guard with Hysteron-Proteron, an acoustic record that grew out of a one-off festival performance. “The idea didn’t come from us in the first place,” the band explained at the time, initially skeptical before getting into it.

The point wasn’t to make Nostromo more accessible, but to let these songs exist in a different way. As the band put it back then, it was about “removing all the ultra-violent aspects created by distortion” to hear what these compositions could become “with different means and intentions, but played by the same people.”

The band didn’t rewrite the songs: “We only worked on the arrangements, not on the compositions.” That’s what gives Hysteron-Proteron its particular strength: the songs stay the same, but everything changes in the way you hear them.

Nostromo

Nostromo
Formed in 1996, Helvetian four-piece Nostromo emerged in the middle of a bubbling hardcore scene powered by high-octane bands like Knut or Shora. They quickly demoed and released a two-track 7", followed a few years later by their debut studio album 'Argue' (1998, Snuff Records). Their EP 'Eyesore' came out in 2000 via Mosh Bart Industries/Bisect Bleep, before their split EP with French grindcore quintet Blockheads (2002, Shogun Records). Complex and technical, their masterpiece 'Ecce Lex' was released the same year through Overcome Records. The blue-chip musicianship as well as the uncompromising production - engineered by Mieszko Talarczyk of Swedish grindcore unit Nasum - raised the album to the rank of extreme metal reference. Somewhere between Napalm Death and Meshuggah, Nostromo's skillfulness and fury hit the nail on the head. They started to tour relentlessly across Europe; live appearances alongside legends such as Slayer, Motörhead, Mastodon or Converge have fashioned the four juggernauts into a phenomenal live act. Nostromo released 'Hysteron-Proteron' in 2004 on Overcome Records. The album gathers acoustic versions of songs taken from their previous releases. A successful and acclaimed risk-taking.

In the mid 2000s, Nostromo split due to unsolvable tensions within the band. They reunited 11 years later for an informal private show. A few pictures posted on social networks were enough to spark things off: Gojira jumped at the chance to invite them on their tour, shortly before that the mighty Hellfest added them to their 2017 edition lineup. Galvanized by this substantial interest, Nostromo rose from the ashes and released their EP 'Narrenschiff' in 2019.

Nostromo recently inked a deal with Swiss record label Hummus Records (founded by the band Coilguns) and announced the release of their fourth studio album 'Bucephale' on October 28th 2022.

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