Advantages: Hugely atmospheric, original, well executed Disadvantages: Its abstract nature will not be to everyones taste
After the interesting if not wholly successful flirtiation with ambient/industrial that was their 2005 EP 'Thematic Emanations of Archetypal Multiplicity', the ever esoteric Blut Aus Nord collapsed in upon themselves once more with this, their 2006 full length 'MoRT'. Whilst some elements from the earlier EP do remain- the disturbing chanting, swathes of eerie feedback ambience and periods of silence, weird, lethargic, tortured riffs and meachanical, ... ...like some ancient malfunctioning machine- 'MoRT' pushes this weirdness to a whole new level that has alienated and delighted the band's fans in equal measures. On the cover of the album (the version I have anyway) there can dimly be made out a severely decomposed figure slumped against the wall, with the word 'MoRT' scratched into the wall above his head. This always reminds me of a scene from Hellraiser 2, in which a character on the run from the ...
Burning_Darkness 01.07.2009
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