Blut aus Nord
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Biography
Hailing from Mondeville, in the Calvados region, Blut aus Nord is a French experimental black metal band. Founded in 1994 by multi-instrumentalist Vindsval under the name Vlad, in reference to Vlad III the Impaler, the project changed its name after the recording of two demos and became a band completed by GhÃst (bass) and W.D. Feld (drums, keyboards), with the assistance of other musicians as and when required. From the outset, the band prioritized the experimental aspect of its music over its eventual success, and eventually established itself as a model of the avant-garde European metal scene, developing an atmospheric, dissonant and esoteric sonic aesthetic. The band's discography is distinguished by several conceptual cycles. The first album, Ultima Thulée (1995), already laid the foundations for cold, atmospheric black metal, while Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age (1996) and its follow-ups Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars (2009), then Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (2014), developed a more melodic, cosmic orientation. From the 2000s onwards, Blut aus Nord opened up a more dissonant, oppressive side with the pivotal album The Work Which Transforms God (2003), a major work of avant-garde black metal. This style continues in series such as the 777 trilogy - Sect(s) (2011), The Desanctification (2011) and Cosmosophy (2012) - which explores an esoteric spiral of sound, blending mechanical rhythms, corrosive harmonies and ritual atmospheres. Other albums illustrate the project's diversity: MoRT (2006), a radical work with deconstructed structures; the more melodic Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination (2007); Hallucinogen (2019), which takes a luminous, psychedelic turn; and Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses (2022) and Disharmonium - Nahab (2023), plunging into a Lovecraftian universe of dreamlike horror and liquid dissonance. Far from the trends, the band continues its mysterious and visionary artistic trajectory with Ethereal Horizons in 2025.
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- Level - 1 (Nothing Is)
- Level - 2 (Nothing Is Not)
- Level - 3 (Nothing Becomes)
- The Alcove of Angels (Vipassana)
- Acceptance (Aske)
- End
- The Choir Of The Dead
- Antithesis of the Flesh (...And Then Arises a New Essence)
- Metamorphosis
- The Supreme Abstract
- The Cosmic Echoes of Non-Matter (Immaterial Voices of the Fathers)
- Axis
- The Fall
- The Howling Of God
- Inner Mental Cage
- Our Blessed Frozen Cells
- Devilish Essence
- Density
- Translucent Body of Air (Sutta Anapanasati)
- Procession Of The Dead Clowns
- Mystic Absolu
- Odinist
- The Fall: Chapter 7.77
- An Element of Flesh
