For their second album, Devil Master fashioned a mirror of their 2019 debut, Satan Spits on Children of Light. “Everything from the title to the instrumental in the middle of the album is a mirrored opposite,” guitarist and primary songwriter Darkest Prince of All Rebellion tells Apple Music. With a reconfigured lineup that sees new drummer and keyboardist Festering Terror in Deepest Catacomb (aka Chris Ulsh, formerly of Power Trip) joining the band while vocalist Disembody Through Unparalleled Pleasure takes on bass duties, Devil Master set out to create a more immersive experience with their signature blend of black metal, goth, and Japanese hardcore influences. In keeping with the band’s ritual magic practices, they finished recording Ecstasies of Never Ending Night on Walpurgis Night. “The way the release date worked out, the album comes out almost exactly a year later,” Darkest Prince points out. “The magician doesn’t believe in coincidences.” Below, he discusses some key tracks.
“Ecstasies…”
“Because we lost our touring keyboard player, this album is more guitar-oriented than the last one. We wanted to establish that with the opening track and this beautiful guitar melody.”
“Enamoured in the Throes of Death”
“This was written by our bassist and vocalist Disembody Through Unparalleled Pleasure, and it’s one of my favorite songs on the album. It fits the mirror pattern because he wrote the song after the instrumental that opens the last album, ‘Nightmares in the Human Collapse,’ and this is the only song he wrote for this album, just like that was the only song he wrote on that album.”
“Golgotha’s Cruel Song”
“Golgotha is where Christ was crucified, and the name means ‘place of skulls.’ I just imagine the skulls crying out for a crucifixion. It’s an anti-Christian song in the sense that we feel Christianity is the real death cult.”
“The Vigour of Evil”
“This is a song about fucking. I think we should leave it at that.”
“Abyss in Vision”
“This is the first song on side two of the vinyl, and just like the first track on side two of the last album, it’s a death-rock song.”
“Acid Black Mass”
“I wrote and demoed this song and the next one on K2 spice. Now that it’s illegal, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone try it. It’s killed more people than anything at this point. But I think this is a crazy-sounding song, and that’s why.”
“Funerary Gyre of Dreams & Madness”
“I got the word ‘gyre’ from the opening line of ‘The Second Coming’ by W. B. Yeats, and I like it because it means ‘vortex.’ We thought it would be funny to give the most elaborate black-metal title to the most punk song on the album.”
“Never Ending Night”
“We wanted the last track to be a goth dance song that you never want to end, like Trisomie 21’s ‘The Last Song.’ I also took inspiration from Selda Bağcan and Atabay Cargulyyew. Along with ‘Enamoured,’ it’s my favorite on the album.”