It is truly one of the eeriest albums I have ever heard - almost bordering on chaos at times. Melodic it most certainly isn't - it is a stark, cold, almost nightmarish soundscape. It has some origins in old Thorns material but this album is ruthlessly executed. The outstanding track is The Choir Of The Dead which is a truly stunning attack on the senses. Dissonant, almost rollercoaster like, it feels like being dragged headlong into a dark, surreal landscape, where everything that you ever believed is brazenly torn up in front of you, leaving only your worst fears intact. This is not easy listening and the album has a good knack of unsettling the listener on a regular basis.

The only let down, if you could call it that, is that I felt the short instrumental (ambient) tracks were not as well executed as they could have been. But this is a minor criticism and I would recommend anybody who fancies something quite radical to give this a try.

I am sure this album will polarise opinion. People will grow to love it or loathe it - there is no sitting on the fence. It will shock you on first listen, make no mistake. However, from there it will either make you curious, as happened to me, whereupon you are most likely to be drawn in and hooked, or you will recoil, reject, and regard it as little more than an exercise in noise pollution, as my mate did after he heard it. But go and download the track above and see what you think. I'm now busily searching out their back catalogue. Blut Aus Nord has me totally hooked.

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The new one is a MCd but it's really ambient stuff without Black Metal part anymore or even vocals , strange .....

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