Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the stars

Releasedate: 23-02-3009; Label: Candlelight Records
By: Sabine van Gameren

Blut Aus Nord is a black metal creation from France, even though the band name might have suspect you they were German. They are releasing “Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue With The Stars” in February 2009.

The band has started in 1994 as a solo project under the name Vlad but now acts as a three-unit. On the release “Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue With The Stars” The first thing to say is that the band has quite some instrumental parts. The calmness, the ambience is scary. You know there will be violent black metal, but you don’t know when. Like walking in the darkness, when you know that someone will try to scare you but you don’t know where that person is hiding. You live up to that moment, you want to be prepared, you don’t want to be scared and in your angst of being seen as the fool that was scared you forget the actual point and yet you get surprised. That is what Blut Aus Nord is doing as well. Building up the tension and excitement to let you enjoy it all when the bubble bursts.
The instrumental tensions are vibrant and passionate. You feel it in your heart. The melody is gorgeous and somehow a bit dreamy as you never expect it to be.

No, I surely don’t mind that the vocals are far from dominant here. I am convinced, why can’t all black metal be that thrilling and surprising? Blut Aus Nord made a great album, that surprised me in many, many ways. Surely my favorite black metal release of the year already. Try hard to top that!

Line Up:
Vindsval – Vocals, guitar
W.D. Feld – Drums, electronics, keyboards
GhÖst – Bass

Links:
Blut Aus Nord MySpace
Blut Aus Nord Official