#98 - A chat with Kyle Spanswick aka Naas Alcameth ( AKHLYS / NIGHTBRINGER )

[@rjcbh23]

A little bothered by the continued pressing of political talk. Naas is one of the most talented Black Metal musicians out there. I want to hear more about his music than what a few assholes years ago labeled him as.

[@iblismanifestations231]

Hi there, Thank you for the comment and feedback. I must admit that, we are on the same page, as I never intended for this channel to have any form of political content - but in the light of the recent cancellations, these conversations are necessary to have. Of course, my main goal, as always, would have been to speak about music, life, philosophy, the spiritual and the esoteric - but imagine if I had Naas on and didn't dare to mention the subject, that would have been a disservice to the channel and everyone else tuning in, because at this rate it would have been a blatant attempt of silencing the conversation, which is the exact opposite of what I've always stood for. I like to probe and ask questions directly and do so without hesitation, and it's in my nature to do so. This is why I do this podcast and my goal always has been, and will be, the truth. This rubs some guests/people off the wrong way, as it has happened on and off camera in the past... With that considered, Naas took my questions like a champ and answered them as directly as I had asked them. If at any point, this channel stops being a vessel of honest and open discourse, I will personally volunteer to shut the whole thing down. Thank you and to everyone else reading this for tuning in, as always!

[@robinvegas4367]

I don't want it either but it has been forced upon me. "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who wants to be left alone. He doesn’t want to be a part of anything, he doesn’t want to be involved in politics or government. But when his quiet life is intruded upon, he will respond with anger and force, because he simply wants to be left alone."

[@mariarosabuffoni8201]

Great interview and great topics, we live in strange times and i think the future will be worse unless we start to use our mind/intelligence properly. Anyway, house of the black geminus Is beautiful and i think akhlys are among the best black metal bands today. I Hope to see them in Italy someday! Thanks a lot for the music & the interview, greetings from Italy! 🤘

[@iblismanifestations231]

Agreed with all of the sentiments above. Cheers!

[@EmmersonCole]

There's a thing called "the curse of cancel culture" where if you try to cancel someone who doesn't deserve it, you'll eventually be cancelled in the future. The guy who wrote the article that Naas mentioned was cancelled a few months ago. A guy from Adelaide who was actively involved in getting Akhlys' tour of Australia at the start of last year shut down, he was cancelled around the same time as well.

[@Robasaibot]

Thanks for bringing that to attention and fuuuuuuuck THAT guy 🤘🏻

[@p1nkishninja]

Love all of naas' projects. The new Akhlys album is absolutely killer. I had no idea about people about whining about nazi claims, ive delved pretty deep into Nightbringers lyrics, and was already pretty deep into the subjects they talk about before i ever heard any of the music. And like....what? The reddit posts i read were ridiculous. People are just ridiculous. Anyway, im just going to enjoy the music and delve deeper into esotericm.

[@iblismanifestations231]

The rest is just noise, as they say.

[@hohepriestersulyvahn1749]

I absolutely enjoy every episode with him. It's always interesting to listen. And yes, House of the black geminus is definitely fantastic, my favourite album this year so far.

[@pan.satyros131]

Great interview. Thanks Naas and Shayan. Now if we could get a proper Akhlys tour in the USA that would be great!

[@SardonicWrath]

Interesting episode as always lad! Akhlys really delivered a phenomenal show at BtG. I can see myself headganging at the front row in your footage from the show here, like the absolute goof that I am.

[@yovaalvarado9773]

Cool! You are an Amazing host and always guide in a great manner these interviews/conversations

[@iblismanifestations231]

@@yovaalvarado9773 Thank you very much!

[@valkiridr2583]

as a fan of him who lives in turkiye which unfortunately nowadays has a mild but similar islamic culture and politics with iran but thanks to universe still a secular middle eastern european hybrid country I ve never ever thought that he is a nazi...but it was great to hear his perspective to these criticisms with all his sincerity and clarity...thank you so much for this great interview and I hope that iran gonna be secular again one day!🤘

[@iblismanifestations231]

@@valkiridr2583 Tesekkur ederim!

[@valkiridr2583]

@@iblismanifestations231 rica ederim! :D

[@BROTHERBEASTUS]

Very interesting to hear the perspectives of both artists on politics, music, spirituality, entheogens, and live performance

[@iblismanifestations231]

Appreciate it! Thank you for listening.

[@Hardyboi-h8x]

Fucking killer episode brah!

[@----t----1234]

Can’t place Naas’s accent I know he grew up in Colorado but sometimes I hear little bit of Irish/British. I loved the interviews you did with him before, the political/cancellation stuff is less interesting though

[@elitarny134]

waiting for Owls Woods Graves!

[@iblismanifestations231]

We haven't already recorded one, but of course, I'd happily welcome those guys!

[@elitarny134]

glad to know that!

[@withinthrall1445]

Again!

[@shaunsmith7503]

Interesting chat and nice work for trying to put some of those questions to him surrounding some of the controversy. I have heard some things regarding some of the characters Naas is involved with but I haven't really done much of my own research. Calling everyone a Nazi doesn't seem super productive and dilutes the meaning of the word when it just gets flung around to anyone that doesn't agree with you. Also when the best things some of these people can come up with is looking at the lyrics and trying to assume intent, which is funny enough the same thing Tipper Gore did with the PMRC fiasco way back when. I enjoy Akhlys and Nightbringer and other works he is involved with but he clearly doesn't see the echo chamber he is also a part of listing off the buzz words/phrases "cancel culture" "gender ideology" "left eating itself" "cultural marxism". Just missed out on "get woke , go broke" and that conservative chud bingo card would be complete. Cool music but the guy loses me when he starts talking politics.

[@MetalDP]

Ironically you using the buzzword "chud" dilutes any point you were trying to make.

[@j.langer5949]

We are all part of some echo chamber and products of what we consume physically or mentally. The question is what kind of society a given ruling ideology produces and by what metric we judge it.