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Where to start with Blut Aus Nord?


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I would suggest looking through his bandcamp page, and to just begin listening to whatever catches your eye.  His sound changes among releases, which means that if you spend enough time with his material, you will eventually find what you like the best.

https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/music

Personally, I like Deus Salutis Meae and The Work Which Transforms God.

Hopefully this will help!

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7 minutes ago, H34VYM3T4LD4V3 said:

Where is he? I miss that guy ?

He was doing pretty well last we talked. I can definitely understand wanting to be off the internet for a while, hopefully he comes back around one of these days.

 

The BAN album that I dug the most was The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion. My phone tried to correct that to "the mystical beast of tenderloin", which doesn't sound half bad either when I'm hungry.

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Their earlier stuff is the closest to a familiar BM sound but the atmosphere already layers up solidly across their first 3 records.  I actually enjoy their more experimental stuff but with that having been said still have real issue enjoying '777 - Cosmosophy' but 'The Work Which Transforms God' and 'MoRT' are my 2 picks of the discography.  

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Me personally...  I´d say start with "Ultima Thulee" and all three Memoria Vetusta albums. Those albums are most the straight forward black metal sounding albums by Blut aus Nord and also my favorites for earlier mentioned reason. I thought "The Work Which Transforms God" was also quite an interesting experiment but not really my cup of tea and after that they lost me completely. 

The 777 trilogy was pretty enjoyable though, especially the last chapter "Cosmosophy" which had a real cool industrial, almost movie soundtrack-like soundscape. Don't know about the more recent stuff since i haven't followed the band since then. 

The new single sounds great though and reminds me a bit of his earliest stuff although more refined of course. I guess this could be the first Blut aus Nord album i would consider buying again.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/blut-aus-nord-debut-trippy-new-track-taken-from-their-forthcoming-album-hallucinogen

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I only have 'The Work Which Transforms God' and I hardly ever listen to it after its initial flavour of the month spins. I think I bought it around time of release. 

I guess I should give their older work some time and attention as those albums might be more my bag. 

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