Artist: BLUT AUS NORD
Album: WHAT ONCE WAS: LIBER III (DIGI)

Release date: 2013
Media type: CD

 - Blut Aus Nord has twisted the idea and essence of black metal into new shapes. (Pitchfork)  Blut Aus Nord is the sound of all of your musical expectations being ripped up and thrown away. (Omimetal) The most disturbing, nausea-inducing and  terrifyingly beautiful sounds to come from a “metal band” (Global Domination)  Blut Aus Nord have always pushed the boundary of what black metal is ! (Beer & Black Metal) [!]

The time is nigh for “Liber III”, the third chapter in Blut Aus Nord’s open-ended, existential “What Once Was…”odyssey. Although clearly analogous to the band’s core body of work, this series of works subsists in a parallel plane, presenting the messenger in a more stripped-down and organic state, exposing an aspect of Blut Aus Nord that would otherwise have remained hidden from the world. In keeping with the modus operandi of its predecessors, the third movement constitutes a bitter narration of pasts cold and lost; a nihilistic expression of the soulless, empty nothingness that prevails today; and a harrowing glimpse of a dystopian future, pregnant with pain and suffering. Raging tempestuously, tumultuously, these six outraged odes to oblivion epitomise instability and embrace chaos yet – oh so poignantly! - are masterfully controlled.

TRACKLIST:

1. I 5:11
2. II 4:28
3. III 5:16
4. IV 4:33
5. V 3:50
6. VI 4:47