Blut Aus Nord is a French black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, that has incorporated avant-garde and industrial elements in its music.
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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.
Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons (2025) (FLAC 16bits/44100Hz) 1.Shadows Breathe First 07:15
2.Seclusion 08:17
3.The Ordeal 07:17
4.The Fall Opens The Sky 07:47
5.What Burns Now Listens 06:22
6.Twin Suns Reverie 02:21
7.The End Becomes Grace 12:23
Released November 28, 2025
"I've learned over the years that, when it comes to my own musical creativity, the truth of today is rarely the truth of tomorrow." Vindsval
The wonderful 16th album from legendary Avant Black Metal paragons BLUT AUS NORD is the culmination of a 30-year vision - as mainman Vindsval connects each element of the band’s history to launch yet another intrepid exploratory evolution.
"Ethereal Horizons" is BLUT AUS NORD fully realised: richer, deeper, grander, more enigmatic and simultaneously more human than ever. Intermeshing the earthen and the futuristic as a vessel for the dark dreamer, soaring and ascending to vivid realms.
After spending the preceding few years immersed in the wyrd and uneasy world of Lovecraft, this guitars-forward and melodious new album feels more akin to the organic, intoxicating terrain of 2014’s "Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry" or 2019's "Hallucinogen" - a cosmic and consonant antidote to our incessant psychic battering from the bleak, cacophonous biosphere in which we reside.
"Ethereal Horizons" incorporates otherworldliness from all eras of BAN - traces of churning dissonance, subtle industrialised elements, the weeping of celestial leads, V's spectral & subliminal snarl - but brings in a suite of new and more grounded feels too. Far-reaching melodic themes turn inward and outward, frequently resolving into the swing of classic, prog and post rock. The warmth of swirling psych-organ and expanses of kosmische synth provide a bed for emotive themes to build and release into full-throttle ruthlessness. Vocal stylings are wide-ranging as ever, utilising the distinctive cloudbusting cleans and choirs, but this time with a lazer-focus on wistful transcendent melodies, refrains and even out-and-out hooks.
Essential.
BAND
W.D. Feld Drums, Electronics, Keyboards (1994-present)
See also: Yerûšelem
Vindsval Guitars, Vocals (1994-present)
See also: Ershetu, Forhist, ex-Children of Mäani, ex-Karras, ex-The Eye, ex-Eitrin, ex-Vlad, The Meditant, Yerûšelem, ex-Social Infected Nerve, ex-Xezbeth
GhÖst Bass (2003-present)
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