Comes in a 4-panel digipack with an O-card and a 16-page booklet containing artist testimonials and an extended interview with Vindsval.

“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.

Tracklist:
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

Deus Salutis Meæ (“God of my Salvation”) is the truly mesmeric new emission from BLUT AUS NORD, the great Black Metal innovator renowned for disdain toward convention and a murderous relationship with boundaries.

Using frightening alchemy and predatory cruelty, BLUT AUS NORD fuses each distinct era of its 23 year existence with innovative readings of cavernous, arcane Death Metal, the occult excesses of outsider Industrial and the abject hauntings of psychotropic Doom.

Ouroboros riffing loops in the incessant lurch and roil of renewal; astonishing microtonal harmonies ripple with the void-cadence of analogue synth; demented Hanneman/Belew leads slur in tangled abstraction; heads are remoulded in a percussive vice of beat-driven ecstasies; chanted incantations invoke the serrated mania of holy knives; tortured bodies speak in tongues of tether-end lunacy.

Held rapt, the unmistakable vestige of melodic grandeur lurks within each distressingly addictive phrase. This is a work of singular class from an artist who continues to remain vital.

Deus Salutis Meæ: the crepuscular entombment, the nocturnal ascension, the extraordinary apotheosis?

Legendary US Black Metal
2023 Reissue with bonus track