DODSFERD
Cursing Your Will to Live
(Moribund)

THE WARRIORS
Genuine Sense of Outrage
(Victory)

CRUSHING THE
GRINDCORE
TRADEMARK
3-Way Split
(BlastAsFuk)

BLUT AUS NORD
Odinist
(Candlelight)

CREATURE FEATURE
The Greatest Show Unearthed
(Sumerian)

FACE THE PANIC
The Reclamation 

(Reaper)

PHASED
Medications

(Elektrohasch)

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Things just keep on getting uglier and weirder in the black metal camp. The most experimental of units seem to be reaching in desperation for fucked up sounds that will hopefully be able to convey more ugliness and plethora of dark thoughts and bad intentions.  French metallurgists Blut Aus Nord are of the most unique sounding bands. Their scrofulous music sounds like bleached black and white noise with a male witch for a singer and is quite unique in its own awkward ways. Blut Aus Nord’s previous Mort was a mid-size triumph and their latest work Odinist is…well, if you have heard Mort and loved it chances are you will love this too. If you thought it was OK but were intrigued by their bold ventures, this is just more of the same so it may go both ways, you may love it or you may simply find it deficient because it sounds like more tracks that could be tagged at the tail end of Mort.

In that note, Odinist sort of feels like Blut Aus Nord stopped exploring and is now focusing on exploiting a formula that has already proved to work for them. This is not pushing the envelope any more than Mort did, but the ugliness is maintained. The guitars sound as if they are getting detuned and there is no exponential metal riffing of any sort here, which is actually quite refreshing. The result is an unclean sound that touches on the nightmarish and psychedelic.  The drums are straight out of the work of Godflesh, it has that simplistic basic beat. Curiously enough, the most inhuman aspects of Blut Aus Nord’s sound distance the band’s sound from the deafening industrial sound of Godflesh.  The voice is necro to the max. Cold and austere our man Vindsval uses his throat to chill the room and walks us through his paced delivery. Odinist is very interesting, it is just that after having experienced Mort I was expecting another step forward. Instead it sound like the same record, but with slightly different chord arrangements.

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