French black metal visionaries Blut Aus Nord are getting ready to release Hallucinogen, their 13th full-length studio album, and they’ve dropped the record’s debut single and opening track, “Nomos ...

Blut Aus Nord walk a path of relentless evolution. If you've traveled this road with them, you're certain to have an open mind and an appreciation for the stranger recesses of black metal. 777 – ...

You can’t really talk in superlative terms when discussing entire genres populated by several nations’ worth of subgenres, but if you were forced at gunpoint to identify the “best black metal band in ...

"Their new album is a fascinating and gripping work of black metal art that opens up a vortex only Blut Aus Nord could let ...

At a glance, what’s more exciting: A 21-minute EP with four or five tracks, or one 21-minute mega-song? One is common and may convey “the night before deadline” or “experiment that didn’t totally work ...

For many years, Blut Aus Nord, a mysterious French project led by a man who calls himself Vindsval, have been making a warped, experimental form of black metal. From album to album, Blut Aus Nord have ...

For a genre whose fans are so often labeled (sometimes rightly) as rigid constructionists, metal’s last few years have been marked by an unprecedented burst of boundary-pushing experimentation. While ...

September 24, 2019 • On this week's playlist, Koenjihyakkei's operatic punk-prog opus gets a vital reissue, Lacing bursts a sweet melody through cloudy shoegaze and a Swiss-Togo duo injects noise into ...