Xasthur
Sign in to saveXasthur () is the project of American musician Scott "Malefic" Conner. Conner formed Xasthur in 1995 and released eight studio albums of black metal by 2010, when he announced the end of the project. However, he began using the name once again in 2015 to instead perform acoustic neofolk music. The first album with this new style was entitled Subject to Change, released in 2016.
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- Xasthur
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- Alhambra, California, United States
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians >.genre
- Black metal, dark ambient neofolk (2015–present)
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- 1995–2010, 2015–present
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- Profane, Blood Fire Death, Bestial Onslaught, Moribund, Total Holocaust, Profound Lore, Battle Kommand, Autopsy Kitchen, Southern Lord, Hydra Head, Turanian Honour, Avantgarde Music, Disharmonic Variations, Lupus Lounge
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- Twilight
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians >.current_members
- Scott "Malefic" Conner
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians >.past_members
- Mike "Ritual" PardiRobert NussleinChristopher HernandezRachel RoomianJoe Larriva
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- Official website
- xasthur.mercurous.net
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- inception
- 1995-00-00
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
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- Past session musicians
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- As Nocturnal Poisoning
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Xasthur () is the project of American musician Scott "Malefic" Conner. Conner formed Xasthur in 1995 and released eight studio albums of black metal by 2010, when he announced the end of the project. However, he began using the name once again in 2015 to instead perform acoustic neofolk music. The first album with this new style was entitled Subject to Change, released in 2016.
== Etymology == The name "Xasthur" is a combination of "Hastur" and "Xenaoth". Conner explained that he found the former name in a Necronomicon paperback and believed that it referred to "a demoness who kills people in their sleep". The latter name referred to a celestial deity he read about in a book on the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería.