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Blut aus Nord


Blut aus Nord are a black metal band from Mondeville in France who have embraced avant-garde metal on some of their later releases.

Biography

The band started in 1994 as a solo project, with Vindsval playing all instruments under the name Vlad. He released two demos under this title before changing the projects name to Blut aus Nord before the release of Ultima Thulée in 1995. The next three albums were recorded with the aid of session musicians: It is only fairly recently that the group has had any permanent members apart from Vindsval.

The project's most critically acclaimed release is The Work Which Transforms God, a concept album which - in spite of being mostly instrumental with none of the lyrics made public - is meant to challenge the listener's prejudices and preconceptions about reality, life and various metaphysical subjects. The Work Which Transforms God has been almost unanimously praised in reviews and was named by Terrorizer Magazine as one of its top 10 albums of 2003. Another point of interest is that Vindsval has only allowed the lyrics from one of Blut aus Nord's four full-length releases, Memoria Vetusta, to be published and thus made public.

Vindsval is head of the underground French record label Appease Me..., which is home to several other obscure extreme metal acts, including Blut aus Nord.

On their followup relase, 2006's (MoRT), Blut Aus Nord moved even further away from what is considered Black Metal. The sound on that album is a lot closer to avant-garde metal. It's a mix of dark and surreal noises and sounds that create a disturbing and bleak atmospheric, and its dissonant harmonies frequently flirt with atonality, which makes it even less accessible for most people, whose ears are used to the grammar of tonality.

Blut aus Nord's latest album, 2007's The Destruction of Reason by Illumination (the subtitle is a quote from Aleister Crowley), was leaked to the Internet on September 10, 2007. While the album's superficial sound is similar to that of MoRT, the album demonstrates a return to more traditional black metal songwriting and structure.

The name "Blut aus Nord" translates from German as "Blood from north" (navigation term).

Current line-up

  • Vindsval - vocals, guitar (Also in: Children of Maani, The Eye)
  • W.D. Feld - drums, electronics, keyboard
  • GhÖst - bass guitar


Session musicians

  • Ogat - session bass on Ultima Thulee
  • Ira Aeterna - session bass on Fathers of the Icy Age
  • Taysiah - session vocals on The Work Which Transforms God
  • Nahaim - session guitar on The Work Which Transforms God


Discography

  • As Vlad:
    • In the Mist – Demo, 1994
    • Yggdrasil – Demo, 1994
  • As Blut aus Nord:
    • Ultima Thulée – Full-length, 1995
    • Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers of the Icy Age – Full-length, 1996
    • The Mystical Beast of Rebellion – Full-length, 2001
    • The Work Which Transforms God – Full-length, 2003
    • Decorporation 10 – Split with Reverence, 2004
    • Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity – EP, 2005
    • MoRT – Full-Length, 2006
    • The Destruction of Reason by Illumination – Full-Length, 2007


External links



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