Mutilation Rites Empyrean Prosthetic 22 May 2012 by Tom Dare Brief Guide On How To Make Black Metal In 2012: 1) Pick your basic influence. This should be a Scandinavian band active in the early 1990s or Bathory. 2) Decide whether to A) simply rip off said band or B) do something new. If A), you're done. If B), move on to number 3. [...]
All this week, Tom Dare has been guiding you through how Black Metal has evolved over the course of the last two decades (check out parts one , two , three and four if you haven't already). Now, as the week draws to a close, we've asked Tom to put together the songs that have made it happen into a Spotify Slaylist , and in doing to to lovingly cobble them together in an order that somehow tries to make sense of the wildly differing styles that constitute the genre these [...]
If every metal subgenre had its own table in the middle-school cafeteria, black metal would probably be the too-cool clique that wouldn't let you sit with them. Its slow, drone-like state says to thrash, "We don't want to be fast like you!" Its drawn-out tracks of 10 minutes or more say to grindcore, "We don't want to be choppy and short like you!" And its dark, cancerously evil tone says to prog and pop, "We don't want to have falsetto and wailing guitar solos like you!" That exclusivity is amplified when the music in question comes from France: the [...]
. . . Editor's Note: If any of you happen to be fluent in Norwegian, you could pick up the November 2011 issue of Metal Hammer (available only in Norway and only in Norwegian) and read this interview in its mother tongue. For our readers without this ability, we present a translation of guest contributor Bob Furtado's Q&A with Vindsval below. In the wake of true rebellion lies a purity and truth that I feel has long been abandoned by the blackened hordes. Blut Aus Nord carelessly warp the sound [...]
Since January 1, The Orchard has added over 60,000 UPCs to its digital distribution catalog. These ten grabbed our crate-diggin' hearts faster than we could say "Nyan Cat Triple Bypass." The New Mastersounds: Breaks From the Border [Tallest Man] Seventh album of warm retro-leaning funk and soul-jazz from these long-grooving Brits, this is The ...
Here are the facts as we know them: Blut Aus Nord is the one-man black metal project of a Frenchman who calls himself Vindsval. Vindsval debuted his whole thing in 1994, but he has allowed the public to learn basically nothing about him in the years since, which is fine, since guys who make black metal often turn out to be either (1) sociopaths or (2) boring nerds. (There are even some boring nerd sociopaths.) I hadn't heard of him before this year, when he released the first two volumes of his 777 album trilogy, which is getting [...]
First off, I feel obligated to preface this "Best of" list by admitting that this posting will in no way bolster my metal cred. If I presented this list to any of my metal friends, I would probably be laughed out of the room. I would prefer to consider this list as more of a layperson's guide to metal, a pair of floaties for those of you willing to get your toes wet in the vast, primordial ocean of metal. That being said, it's been a good year for metal. This year saw major releases from some of [...]
Cynic's Carbon-Based Anatomy EP highlights this week's release slate, while White Wizzard, Blut Aus Nord, Bloody Panda, Coliseum and more are also releasing new albums. Let's take a look after the jump. Bloody Panda – Summon: Invocation (self-released) Epic doom crew Bloody Panda are self-releasing an album of remixes to their 2009 album Summon. It's [...]
Blut Aus Nord released "777 - The Desanctification" today in Europe, and the album will see release on November 15th in North America. In celebration of the release, the entire album is now available for streaming via Pitchfork.com at this location or through the player below. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification by dmp666 The album's t... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Probablemente este sea una de las mejores cosas que estaran escuchando en las semanas finales de este año y ademas, sumenle un poco mas de misterio al hecho de que en la extensa trayectoria de Blut Aus Nord nunca han revelado sus rostros, podria tratarse de algun club de asesinos seriales tocando black metal industrial o gente perteneciente a un culto o incluso, podria ser alguna persona que se cruze con ustedes en la calle con su respectivo traje entrando a un edificio lujoso pero claro, esta ultima opcion podria descartarse cuando le den play a este onceavo material de [...]
Technically, summer isn't over until September 23. But to hell with that! Days are gonna get shorter, the weather's gonna get cooler, and everyone will soon celebrate the birth of the one true me. So there's really no point in hanging on to the last vestiges of summer. Good-bye and good riddance. What better way [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. . . . I'm not normally one for "promotional" material, as I'm already deluged by actual releases. But I'm still a fan, and some bands still make me do fan-like things: sign up for mailing lists, hunger for scraps of news, etc. Blut aus Nord is one. This band has never disappointed me. I love its disharmonic side, but its harmonic side, if precious, still engages me. Despite an anonymous front, the band works hard and piques my curiosity with each release. I love artists [...]
Before the quibbling starts: I didn't include YOB's Atma because it isn't out until August. It would be way up there. I've also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind quite a bit, but since it has an original release date of '09 before Prosthetic's 2011 reissue, I didn't include that either. On the other side of things, I've recently started listening pretty intensely to Servile Sect's Trvth (Handmade Birds), a collection that feels like it'll stick around for awhile. Otherwise, this is what I've found myself returning to [...]
Blut Aus Nord walk a path of relentless evolution. If you've traveled this road with them, you're certain to have an open mind and an appreciation for the stranger recesses of black metal. 777 - Sect(s) is an album whose allure is undeniable but difficult to grasp. If you described it to me on paper, ...
Last year (and the year before) I got way too busy with this thing called life and missed out on a lot of quality music. I am here to rectify the error of my ways, month by month. Here are the April 2011 releases that got under my skin, burrowed their way into my brain, made [...]
This week sees new releases by Graveyard, Periphery, Blut Aus Nord, Septicflesh, Winds of Plague, and tons more. MS new release expert Vic Vaughn takes a looksee at each after the jump! Arkan – Salam (Season Of Mist) A collaboration of heavy music and traditional Oriental instruments and songwriting, Arkan's second album continues the style [...]
I'm sick as a dog right now, and MoRT (Candlelight, 2006) is the perfect soundtrack. It's one of the "sickest" metal records I've ever heard, up there with Gorguts' Obscura and anything by Portal. Guitars catch disharmonic diseases, groaning and straining all over the place. A woozy drum machine, perhaps drunk after a Godflesh gig, lurches about. Vocal incantations swoop past in great strokes of reverb. This is illness as music. Handmade Birds , the new boutique label of R. Loren of Pyramids, has pressed MoRT [...]
News Two two-minute excerpts from the new BLUT AUS NORD songs "Epitome II" and "Epitome IV" are available for streaming at this location.
Hailing from Mondeville, Calvados, France, Blut Aus Nord plays black metal by their rules. Shunning the traps most BM bands fall into, they really distance themselves from the corpse paint, burning crosses, satanic themes of their contemporaries and focus on developing their sound from your run of the mill black metal to something more avant-garde, drawing from influences from shoegaze and even some free from. What Once Was...Liber 1 is less polished than previous albums. What Once was is super dark and foreboding, with fast tremolo picking, blast beats, evil, distorted vocals and a super dark album cover all [...]
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