BluT AuS NoRd

My first ever like from French Dark scene, Blut aus Nord is a black metal band from Mondeville. This was introduced to me by my buddy, their musical style is described as the “sonic equivalent to Thorns injecting Streetcleaner-era Godflesh with an evil unpredictability"

Formed: 1994

Genere: Black Metal

Well! after listening to one of their tracks I Couldn’t hold my self without knowing more about this band. Blut Aus Nord was a solo project started by Vindsval in 1994 under the Name of “Vlad”,Vindsval is head of the underground French record label Appease Me, which is home to several extreme metal acts, in addition to Blut aus Nord.

Coming to their name, The name "Blut aus Nord" translates from German as "Blood from the North", though the non-standard grammar suggests nautical jargon (a more standard phrasing would be "Blut aus (dem) Norden" or "Blut von Nord(en)," though cardinal directions are seldom used in spoken German to begin with).

Musical History:

Vlad released 2 demos under this name. After the rename of Vlad to Blut Aus Nord, they recorded 3 albums with guest memebers


They released a concept album The Work Which Transforms God which was most critically acclaimed release.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 and various metaphysical subjects.The album was named by Terrorizer Magazine as one of its top 10 albums of 2003. So far, Vindsval has only allowed the lyrics from one of Blut aus Nord's full-length releases, Memoria Vetusta I, to be made public. According to journalist Avi Pitchon, "Blut Aus Nord are responsible, perhaps more so than any band, for the most recent evolution within black metal. 2003's 'The Work Which Transforms God' introduced us to the warped, collapsing mutation of 'black hole metal'; nowadays also called shoegazing BM."

On their followup release, 2006's MoRT, Blut aus Nord moved even further away from traditional black metal. The sound on MoRT is closer to avant-garde metal, comprising a mixture of dark and surreal noises and sounds that create a disturbing and bleak atmosphere.


Blut aus Nord's 2007 album Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination (the subtitle being 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 sequel to Memoria Vetusta I, subtitled Dialogue with the Stars, was released in February 2009. In June 2010 they released a LP entitled "What Once Was...Liber I" on Debemur Morti Productions. They are currently scheduled to re-release The Mystical Beast of Rebellion in early 2011 thru Debemur Morti with an additional CD of newly recorded material meant to act as a complimentry work to the original.

Musical style

Vindsval, the vocalist and guitarist, Described their muic when asked “Blut Aus Nord is an artistic concept. We don’t need to belong to a specific category of people to exist. If black metal is just this subversive feeling and not a basic musical style, then Blut Aus Nord is a black metal act. But if we have to be compared to all these childish satanic clowns, please let us work outwards [from] this pathetic circus. This form of art deserves something else than these mediocre bands and their old music composed 10 years before by someone else”


Current line-up

• Vindsval - vocals, guitar (Also in: Children of Maani, The Eye)

• W.D. Feld - drums, electronics, keyboards

• 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

Studio albums

• Ultima Thulée (1995)

• Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers of the Icy Age (1996)

• The Mystical Beast of Rebellion (2001)

• The Work Which Transforms God (2003)

• MoRT (2006)

• Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination (2007)

• Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars (2009)

• What Once Was... Liber I (2010)
• 777 - Sect(s) (28 April 2011)
• 777 - The Desanctification (September 2011) (expected)
• 777 - Cosmosophy (November 2011) (expected)

Ep’s:

• Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity (2005)

Split releases

• Decorporation 10 (2004) – split with Reverence
• Dissociated Human Junction (2007) – split with Bloodoline, Reverence, and Karras

Oficial page: http://www.blutausnord.com/
Myspace: www.myspace.com/thehowlingofgod