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threee1614
if we're redefining words in the fashion of the zoomer generation, then yes it's great
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AcidHorizon
Feeling like a selfish bastard because we've gotten two albums in the last 2 years but I keep looking for an announcement about the next chapter in the current era. I have really enjoyed the "Disharmonium" era because it truly does feel like the first time that they have merged their atmospheric black metal with their dissonant, industrialized hellscape sound. For years they bobbed and weaved between the two styles but never seemed to merge that much. For example, between 2009 and 2014 BaN had 5 full-length releases and 3 EP's. You had the final two entries in the "Memoria Vetusta" trilogy, which focused on their classic atmospheric black metal sound. the 777 trilogy, which is a meditative industrialized endurance test. Then the "What Once Was..." EP series which is some of their most aggressive work and borderline industrial death metal at certain points. So you have a lot of diversity but they exist within their own collectives. However, with "Disharmonium"..........
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AcidHorizon
......It almost feels like the atmospheric black metal and avant-garde works are two pit vipers, fighting in a hole. While I agree and understand that the "styles" of these albums are not new to BaN, their application of said styles is EXTREMELY different than what we had seen in the past. This merging has been absolutely excellent for me as a fan. Ranking BaN is impossible for me but both "Disharmonium" might be in my top five, alongside "The Work Which Transforms God", "Ultima Thulee" and "Hallucinogen". I know I am just talking into the void here but damn, the fact that they've been my favorite band since 2005 and three of my favorite albums were released by them in the last 5 years is extraordinary. How many bands have that consistency?
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ClassyMusicSnob
Disharmonium was frankly as boring as the worst parts of the 777 trilogy, Nahab is a nice return to form. It's fun to see how the apprentice has come to now influence one of the masters. The band has very obviously been listening to Imperial Triumphant and they have perfectly integrated some of the very atonal piano quality in IT's music that they obviously got from listening to a lot of atonal classical, hard bop and free jazz. Blut Aus Nord have crafted a fantastically perfect Lovecraftian soundscape by incorporating it into their already apocalyptic sound.
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TheWrathofThor
Blut Aus Nord is the band Ulver would have become if they had kept making black metal.
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nesnesitelnej
It's good music but their plethora of records just sound soooo samey. I find it harder and harder to spot any differences between the albums and even songs.
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Kaltenhoenn
BaN is an example of a musical realm. Everything they do sounds exclusively like BaN, no matter what it is. People who are closer to the band see all the variations. People who are further just see the "Vindsval" stickers all over it.
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nesnesitelnej
Well said Kaltenhoenn. For me TWWTG was revolutionary and I still love the record. I like some others a lot, too, like Vetusta 2 or Hallucinogen, but the vast discography is really just "more Vindsval stuff". Just a personal opinion though.
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AcidHorizon
It’s interesting, I have followed the band since maybe 2005 and the longer I sit with their records, the more I can appreciate the subtle differences. Example, The Mystical Beast…, MoRT, Sect(s) and Deus Salutis Meae are four records that exist within their more mechanical style, yet they can’t be lumped together because TMBOR and Sect(s) fuse more speed and melody to almost create a rusted over Darkthrone, while MoRT uses a slow and more lumbering atmosphere to create a nightmarish hellscape. “Deus…” also takes this idea but instead of trying to scare you like MoRT, it’s just an exercise in violent trauma, that record is just bludgeoning. I think it’s just a matter of how much free time one is willing to spend with the project, to better see their nuance.
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AcidHorizon
I love that album. It’s the first time I think all their influences and sounds fused together perfectly. In my opinion, that album has something for everyone interested in BaN.
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SiMonvmentvm
https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/disharmonium-nahab Preordered before listening.
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AcidHorizon
BaN instagram just posted a test press of the new record. I believe it's set for release this September. Over 25 years into their existence and they released what I believe to be their 2nd best record last year. Crazy.
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AcidHorizon
Way too underrated. Their melodic stuff is great but the 777 trilogy is cathartic and perfect imo.
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ahmetemin1994
That's how I got into them. Their dissonant stuff requires more dedicated listenings for a newcomer however Sects is just perfect. Simple compositions, melodic and relaxing.
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AcidHorizon
I couldn't agree more. Epitome VI is one of the best songs I have ever heard. worlds within worlds on that one. Hell of a way to close out Sects.
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Sammael_F_Hell
The 777 is exactly the same as the original Matrix trilogy. With a potent, original and breaking 1st part (Sect(s)), a 2nd part that goes further into power at a cost in the other departments (The Desanctification) and a 3rd part that is an absolute "What the Fucking Hell" level of letdown (Cosmosophy). I wonder when Vindsval is about to "bless us" with an utter shitty Resurrections of his own.
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Kaltenhoenn
Listen to Nahab and I'll listen to Cosmosophy another 300 times. You're free to do so.
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nfopuhfxir
My list: https://musicboard.app/list/8cb54dae-4dd1-47c2-bc09-55503b956c38?rel=copy
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Kaltenhoenn
Even DSO isn't remotely close to BaN. It's a league of his own. Any similarities are slim.
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moonspawn7
today I realized spotify had wrong track listing for MV II, it exchanged the titles of "Antithesis of the flesh" and "The formless sphere", my top scrobbled BAN track should be Antithesis, but thanks to spotify it's The Formless Sphere, and I always thought Formless sphere is the last second track of the album
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Mindscraper
They achieved something really unique on "MoRT". Chillout dissoblack for lethargic sleep. As relaxing as taking a formalin bath, as comfortable as an operating table with clean white sheets
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Schwarzmetall89
I never looked into this band until I stumbled over Disharmonium on Youtube and I was instantly hooked. Great album! I listened to Hallucinogen after that and liked that as well. I guess I'll have to sift through their whole discography now...
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Kaltenhoenn
Try their 2018 Servants of Chaos' track "Dimensions of Chaos". It goes very well with the new album.
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Kaltenhoenn
Very deep effort. It's like a vacuum from deep beneath the surface that relentlessly sucks all nearby matter in.
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Necrophant
Is this the first record theyve done with cthulu/horror/portal vibes? Always thought they were kinda boring but this new record seems pretty great.
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SwingBreed
gnarly, nightmarish vibes on the new album.... feel like I'm being spiritually disemboweled
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skalberg242
The master is finally back. The dissonant soundscapes on the new album are giving me vibes from TWWTG, or TMBOR even. But it's not a retread in sound either.
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wintersoul_
Not really lovecraftian horror vibes from the new one, but it’s a good heir of Hallucinogen ideas
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