Artist: BLUT AUS NORD
Album: DISHARMONIUM - NAHAB LTD. EDIT. (DIGI)

Year: 25.08.2023
EAN/UPS: 0652733504128
Media type: CD

"The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound..." (HPL)

"Nahab" – the second part of the Disharmonium cycle - finds BLUT AUS NORD returning, as if by compulsion, to the Weird nightmarish otherworlds of H.P. Lovecraft to reflect them through a new mirror of terrifying Black Metal lunacy.

Descending into abyssal terrain akin to the twin dark chambers of 2022's first instalment "Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses" and companion-piece-of-sorts compilation "Lovecraftian Echoes", this latest emanation is similarly womb-like, detail-rich, disturbed and transformative.

Musically influenced only by the band’s own extensive oeuvre, in comparison with BAN's recent Lovecraftian explorations "Nahab" has an increased presence of deranged vocal mania, the eerie dynamics are more fully realised, the band's unmistakeable melodic power amplified, the guitars - lower slung for extra resonance - flow in tandem with splendidly lurching grooves like some Stygian wooze-tsunami.

In the dead-eyed trance of one demonically summoned, BLUT AUS NORD have once again channelled esoteric folklore and modern violence into another phenomenal slice of outsider art which befits their own Mythos and monstrosity. A Crowning Horror indeed.  

Recommended if you like: LEVIATHAN, AKHLYS, THE RUINS OF BEVERAST, GODFLESH…

CD/ LP:

01. Hideous Dream Opus #1 01:02
02. Mental Paralysis 04:21
03. The Endless Multitude 06:28
04. Hideous Dream Opus #2 01:20
05. The Crowning Horror 03:34
06. Queen of the Dead Dimension 05:33
07. The Black Vortex 04:50
08. Nameless Rites 04:55
09. Hideous Dream Opus #3 01:14
10. The Ultimate Void of Chaos 05:06
11. Forgotten Aeon 05:37