Entry 244 - Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses

 

Blut Aus Nord is one of those bands that is so incredibly hit or miss with me that I can easily skip over half their discography. They have some absolutely brilliant moments of dissonance... The Work Which Transforms God remains a landmark in the field of non-musical black metal. Sometimes though they just go off the deep end and I can't follow, either that or the music is just plain uninteresting to me.

Halluciongen is one of those albums that showed potential at first but then just became boring after a while. I felt that while it was a cool direction for the band it lacked any sort of urgency. The songs blended together eventually, and with the exception of Haallucinählia the album really felt lost.

I was very cautious about Disharmonium at first when I heard that it was a continuation of the Halluciongen style, but with a bit more dissonance. While that description is technically correct it does not even begin to describe the true sense or scope that this album has.

Disharmonium is twisted. It fulfills the potential that Hallucinogen had and then some. It takes the urgency of Haallucinählia and combines it with the horror of a panic induced mental breakdown... one that would be onset by staring at something so inhuman that the mind cannot handle it and simply breaks.

There isn't just urgency in these songs... there is paranoia. There is fear. There is base emotions that are made on instinct, not on any rational thought. These songs chronicle the decay of the human mind... and we as listeners can only listen as we are swept into the insidious vortex.

To say that this is a step up from the previous album is doing it a disservice. The band has not had this level of quality shift since they went from Odinist to Memoria II. This is the band firing on all cylinders... this is the true Blut Aus Nord.