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8: Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab

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.jh
on 2023-12-16 07:07:00

Blut Aus Nord return with part two of their latest trilogy of albums again tackling various Lovecraftian horrors. BaN have almost a tick-tock pattern to their albums (or group thereof) where they’ll release one atmospheric album and then one dissonant one (or as is the case here a trilogy). So after the atmospheric tick of Hallucinogen we are now in the dissonant tock with the Disharmonium trilogy, while I generally prefer the former the latter is always interesting and more importantly often challenging requiring concentrated attentive listening, this isn’t something which really does well as something to have in the background. Giving it your full attention is generally a rewarding if often discombobulating process.

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<a href="https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/disharmonium-nahab">Disharmonium - Nahab by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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2: Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

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.jh
on 2019-12-16 11:07:00

When I first read the press release from Debemur Morti announcing the new Blut Aus Nord album this summer I was utterly unsurprised. Blut Aus Nord have always gone their own way and on many releases have strayed not just far from black metal but strayed from what most people would even consider metal. So them finally putting metal behind them and going off to do something different was not unexpected. I shrugged and moved on. When Hallucinogen was finally released later in the year and I heard it this is when I got surprised. Not only was it far more metal than the PR had let on, it was often much more black metal than could have been expected. Now sure just as the album name hints it’s often a serene experience, they’ve gone from mostly experimental chaotic black metal to experimental atmospheric (hallucinogenic?) black metal. In the end Blut Aus Nord simply show they are very good at what they do, regardless of what they do. Since this came out I’m not sure I’ve listened more to anything else, a magnificent and beautiful album.

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<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/hallucinogen">Hallucinogen by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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7: Blut Aus Nord - Deus Salutis Meæ

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on 2017-12-14 04:19:25

Another year, another Blut Aus Nord album, or so it seems sometimes (fun factoid 2002 and 2008 are the only years in the past 17 when they’ve not had a release). The Blut Aus Nord pendulum swings rather violently between traditional, experimental, and well very experimental. This one harks back more towards releases such as Odinist or Mort, which suits me just fine, that tends to be my favourite version of them. However perhaps I’ve not given it enough time, but I just don’t feel it fully here, if I want this version of Blut Aus Nord I’d most often just turn on The Work Which Transforms God. That said even when Blut Aus Nord aren’t firing on all cylinders they’re still better than so much else out there.

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<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/deus-salutis-meae">Deus Salutis Meae by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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6: Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

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on 2014-12-24 12:48:13

The long running series of Memorial Vetusta albums has always been a fan favourite with it’s more predictable black metal sound. While I like and appreciate the more experimental stuff you find especially in the 777 trilogy this does sound and feel like a natural sound for Blut Aus Nord. It’s often quite beautiful and sweeping, and while I don’t often comment on it the artwork needs mention here, it’s a astounding piece. If you’ve not already done it, do yourself and pick this up.

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<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/memoria-vetusta-iii-saturnian-poetry">Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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5: Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was ... Liber III

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on 2013-12-20 06:18:22

Perennial favourites Blut Aus Nord returns this year with the third installment of the What Once Was …Liber series of EPs (one can quibble with calling this an EP since it’s longer than some albums), and once again this is for those fans who perhaps find the regular Blut Aus Nord releases too progressive and modern. Like it’s two predecessors this is harsh and industrial, there are no melodic interludes or anything to catch you, it’s droning, uncompromising, and unmistakably Blut Aus Nord. Like many great albums there is no love at first listen here, it’ll take a few times to find what you like about this release, but once you hear it, it’ll be hard to shake.

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<a href="http://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/what-once-was-liber-iii">What Once Was... Liber III by BLUT AUS NORD</a>
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3: Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

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on 2012-12-22 15:19:51

Of the 777 trilogy, this might rank as my least favorite one, however it’s a very good ending album, it’s mostly slow and gives you that winding down feeling. My complaints are mainly that BaN’s will to experiment sometimes takes them in directions I find brings little to the table. There is ample clean(ish) singing as well as quite a bit of electronica. None of this really accents the music much, it’s mainly an annoyance and a track you quickly skip. As a whole the 777 trilogy is very well made, I have minor quibbles as stated above but they shouldn’t detract from the whole.

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<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/777-cosmosophy">777 - Cosmosophy by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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1: Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

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on 2011-12-15 04:16:11

I feel slightly uncomfortable including this album, it’s the first of three of a trilogy, part two has already been released (part 3 is due out in 2012), and it seems pretty clear that all three are meant to be a single album, so reviewing just one third seems unfair. However they are released as separate albums and as such I decided they were fair game. As with all Blut Aus Nord albums there are aspects to love and hate here, there are times I think it gets a bit too soft, but for every part that you might not like they come back in spades with their very special brand of black metal that blows most other bands away. As truly amazing as this album is I think once part three gets released and we get to experience the full trilogy, that’s when this will really come to shine as perhaps one of the greatest albums in a long time.

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<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/777-sect-s-2">777 - Sect(s) by Blut Aus Nord</a>
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3: Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars

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on 2009-12-10 14:50:14

Compared to much else on this list, as well as most of Blut Aus Nord’s back catalog this must be classified as easy listening. If Anaal Nathrakh is a jack hammer pulverizing your skull, Blut Aus Nord is a carnivorous earwig slowly turning your brain to mush. Never really staying too long on the same path, this album is quite a far cry from previous ones, I still hold 2003’s The Work Which Transforms God to be their finest moment but this isn’t far behind.

Blut Aus Nord

<a href="http://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/memoria-vetusta-ii-dialogue-with-the-stars">Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars by BLUT AUS NORD</a>
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