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| | Mort | | | Music Artist : | | Blut Aus Nord | | Music Style : | | Death Metal | | Record Label : | | Candlelight | | Release Date : | | 2006-10-17 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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 HAUNTING....
Submitted on: 2009-06-30 |
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| This is the word that best describes the 2006 release of Blut Aus Nord's "MoRT". The name comes from the acronym "Metamorphosis Of Realistic Theories". Like the album title the music itself is very well thought out and very complex.Listening to this album is like spiraling on the event horizon and heading into total darkness it is both frightening and beautiful at the same time depending on how you look at it. Out of ALL of the B.A.N. releases this album stands out as the most abstract and although there are a few melodies here and there it is the absolute furthest thing from Thier earlier melodic Black Metal days. This album is a dark,ambient,haunting album that You may have to listen to several times to finally see the vision that B.A.N. is presenting.The album consists of 8 tracks total titled "Chapters 1-8".Lead Vocalist/Guitarist-"Vindsval" combines His tortured Black Metal screams with haunting whispers that add so much to the atmosphere of this record.His songwriting style and Guitar playing is so non-traditional and chaotic but yet complex that it takes several listens to grasp How much work He puts into the Bands recordings. Bass Guitarist-"GhOst" really does some great work on this album.His playing on the album really stands out in the background and He does some really cool "fills" over Vindsval's guitar work. Drummer-"W.D. Feld's" timing changes on this recording are absolutely insane (everything from Blast beats to strange out of sync timing that works PERFECTLY!). The album is heavily layered with ambient sounds that create a more "Industrial Black Metal" sound the recording and production itself are really well done. If You are familiar with B.A.N.'s previous work or recent work then You will definitely appreciate this album. The album is really abstract in the sense that it is NOT a traditional ambient Black Metal album or heavily melodic in anyway it is "advanced darkness" for music and it may take a couple of times listening to it from start to finish to let it sink in, but I promise you if You are a Fan of the Group or are opened minded enough this album will become one of Your favorite Blut Aus Nord albums.This album("MoRT")and "Mystical Beast Of Rebellion" still remain to be two of My favorite B.A.N. recordings to date. A highly artistic and complex non traditional vision of ambient musical darkness brought to You by the Entity that is France's.... Blut Aus Nord. |
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 this cd sucks!
Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |
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| the title of my reveiw says it all:this cd sucks. i've got two of their other cds, and both of them i like, but Mort is terrible. i threw it out the window of my car the day i got it. worst five bucks ive ever spent. save your money for one of their other cds, because Mort is fit only to be a coaster. |
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 Nothing Special
Submitted on: 2007-03-27 |
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If your looking for good ole Black Metal, check out Blut Aus Nord's other album - The work Which Transforms God.
This album is basically the same mode and repetition. Terrible recordings that have very little resemblence to anything Black Metal.
All I listen to is experimental music and styles that are generally difficult and draining for the amount of concentration required, but this album was only draining in low grade repetition.
No offense to the band what so ever, just didn't feel this album at all. |
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13th on my 2006 list
Submitted on: 2007-03-15 |
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(complete title: Metamorphosis of Realistic Theories)
"New functionalism" was an avant-garde filmmaking movement in 1920's Germany, connected to the infamous and minimalist Bauhaus design movement, and devoted to non-narrative, lyrical, and abstract concepts. What a "New Functionalist" filmmaker would do, as I understand it, is take pictures frame by frame, light, photograph and map them in different mathematical patterns, thus creating visual "themes" which could be repeated, run forward or in reverse, mixed and matched with other thematic elements, sometimes randomly, but most of the time arranged in odd mathematical sequences that would skip, repeat and leap over one another.
Now take that idea, switch the visuals to sounds, and then apply it to black metal and you have Blut Aus Nord's "MoRT. ". Anyone familiar with this band already knows that they are abstract, dark and sort of ambient. In this album the abstractions are melded together as thematic elements, sometimes repeating from one track to the next. Sometimes played backwards, as well as the submerged vocal tracks. Oh yes, the "songs" on this album, in keeping with the spirit of abstract minimalism, are aptly titled "Chapter 01" Chapter 02, etc., and ending with "Chapter 08".
All of the instruments you would expect on a black metal album are present here, just not played the way you would expect. I would have to describe this as black doom industrial avant-garde. Many elements are blended here, as well as bizarre and strange samples, some of which I think I can identify, others not. Chapters 03 and 04 share a thematic element, rhythmically repeated, that sounds to me just like one of those old dot matrix Epson printers. This screechy beep is utilized almost percussively, frosting over droning keyboards and bass. Don't by any means think that MoRT is devoid of melodic substance. There is plenty of trippy, stoner-metal guitar leads interspersed with all the buzz, drone and menacing rasps and whispers.
Oh, and did I happen to mention that this album is creepy as the Lovecraftian catecombs of R'ylea? My favorite time to listen to this is on headphones, walking around downtown. Gives a whole new perspective to the rush hour grind, like looking at the world though swamp colored glasses. It makes the day a little darker, people look stranger, and I get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, Cthulu and his minion DO exist after all. Very cool. |
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Like a bad acid trip that is worth taking over and over again....
Submitted on: 2006-11-19 |
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| Blut aus Nord emerges once again out of obscurity to unleash Mort upon a world of unsuspecting listeners. Well, actually, if you are familiar with this band then you should already have an idea of what to expect here -- something very bizarre and abstract in nature. Blut aus Nord have created the ultimate acid trip; an album that plays out more like a dark, murky, and decadent surrealistic "dark ambient" record than a black metal record. Indeed, Blut aus Nord have left the black metal genre behind with this release and have ventured into completely unorthodox territory. I have to say that I admire this band for progressing. Mort isn't exactly the kind of record that the usual metalheads or kvlt kiddies will take an immediate liking to, but if you are a fan of experimental music or dark ambient, then it should be right up your alley. This music is like a slow moving downward spiral into discordant insanity. Or maybe it is spiritual transcendence? I guess that is left up to the listener to decide. In any case, this album is like a car crash. It is totally captivating and bizarre in its own surrealistic, yet nightmarish beauty. And you don't necessarily have to drop acid in order to enjoy this release, I find that this record can easily enwrap you in an atmosphere while you are sitting alone in an empty room. Blut aus Nord have put out the ultimate "surrealist" black metal album. I have never heard of anything that sounds quite like this before. This is an album that completely destroys our notions and ideas of what a black metal band can be, or even what music should sound like... This is music that makes us question the reality that exists all around us. It makes us ponder and question what is really real. |
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