Judd voiced critical opinions towards modern black metal. Also, Judd played guitar on Obscurus Advocam's 2007 album Verbia Daemonicus. Judd for many years performed under the pseudonym "Azentrius". Additionally, Judd was a session musician on Krieg's final album Blue Miasma (2006). Twilight featured Wrest from Leviathan, producer Sanford Parker, Stavros Giannopoulos of The Atlas Moth, Imperial of Krieg, Malefic of Xasthur, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. In 2005, he was commissioned by the Swedish underground label Total Holocaust Records to create the black metal " supergroup" Twilight. Outside of Nachtmystium, Judd founded an independent record label, Battle Kommand Records, with Rebecca Clegg in St. Nachtmystium became Judd's primary focus and his most successful music project. Judd incorporated psychedelic elements into the band's material, influenced by his love for progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and The Allman Brothers Band, while also using various black metal elements. He started to become more involved in Nachtmystium, then a raw black metal band, after receiving positive feedback from his audience. Judd eventually founded Nachtmystium with a friend as a side-project, which he originally operated out of his parents' basement.
In his spare time, he worked at Metal Haven, a heavy metal record store in Chicago. He served as the vocalist and guitarist for Ezurate and in the now-defunct thrash and black metal band Helms Deep. He began playing in bands in his late teens. Judd took up the guitar when he was twelve years old, and began to listen to heavy metal shortly later. He saw The Allman Brothers Band perform live when he was in the second grade, and cites it as a major influence on his musical career.
Judd was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and took an early interest in music due to his parents' taste in classic rock. He later reunited Nachtmystium in 2017 to perform two live shows and record a new studio album before dissolving the band in 2020. Judd later admitted to deceiving fans and left the music industry in 2014. His reputation was further damaged when fans, band mates, and business partners openly accused Judd of conducting fraudulent business practices. Judd's heroin addiction was publicly exposed in 2013 after he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft. He previously performed under the stage name " Azentrius".
Formerly the lead vocalist and frontman of the metal band Nachtmystium, Judd also contributed to musical acts and projects such as Twilight, Krieg, and Hate Meditation. Blake Judd (born November 13, 1982) is an American musician and co-founder of now-defunct Battle Kommand Records.
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