Nightshade - WIRED 2025 Remaster
WIRED brings heavy guitars, synths and electronics merged into intricate arrangements and melodies. It was originally released in 2003 as an EP and distributed by the French label Adipocère. Recorded on a 16-track tape machine, with no editing or production artifacts, WIRED offers a distinctive vintage analog sound stamped with a bombastic drum machine. At the time, the release led to comparisons with their main influences, swiss electro-metal fellows Samael or Kovenant.
In the 2025 remaster, the drum machine has been entirely reprogrammed using 25 years old original equipment and reintegrated in the music with the help of AI.
A new video lyric for “Glass” will be re-issued on March 5, followed at the end of March by an upscaled video of “Inside of You” recorded live at the Swiss television in 2004.
WIRED (2025 Remaster) will be available on vinyl disc and in all digital stores.
Biography
Blending prominent synthesizers, heavy guitars and originally drum machines, Nightshade adventurous eclecticism has been standing out in the metal scene for over 25 years.
Chief songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wacinski, vocalist Dave Genillard and bass player Al, three outsider 90’s teenagers with an affinity for heavy music and a rebellious need to craft a different sonic art, founded Nightshade in 1998.
Emerging from the burgeoning 90’s Swiss black metal scene, the group forged their own electronic-industrial dark metal style with extravagant synths, imagery and lyrics. While vocals appealed to extreme metal fans, the songs also had an undeniable sense of rhythm and melody that stood apart from most metal acts of the time and infused a combination of curiosity, talent and musical freedom.
In 2021, Sounds of Dark Matter, their latest LP to date, refreshed the band’s unique aesthetics, progressive compositions with uncanny energy, as if the original band had never wavered in their sound and vision. This revival was made possible sonically thanks to Sebastian Has, known for his work on the late Behemoth albums, who masterfully combined the band's heavy guitars with complex, multi-layered synth orchestrations.
Recently, the band announced it was working on the follow-on album to “Sounds Of Dark Matter”, released in 2021 via My Kingdom Music.
