Blut Aus Nord
Ethereal Horizons
A luminous and expansive reconfiguration of avant-garde black metal that replaces claustrophobic dread with cosmic elevation and melodic transcendence.
Country: France
Genre: Avant-garde Black Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal
Album Title: Ethereal Horizons
Release Year: 2025
Label: Debemur Morti Productions
Context Note:
As the project’s sixteenth full-length under Vindsval’s direction, Ethereal Horizons consolidates more than three decades of experimentation into a more open and emotionally resonant form. Departing from the oppressive, Lovecraftian density of recent works, the album gravitates toward the melodic and psychedelic sensibilities of Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry and Hallucinogen, incorporating progressive structures, kosmische synth textures, and choir-inflected vocal arrangements. While traces of the band’s earlier dissonant and industrial tendencies remain, they are recontextualized within a warmer and more grounded sonic architecture.
Thematic Axis:
Cosmic transcendence, metaphysical expansion, post-Lovecraftian luminosity, spiritual elevation through abstraction.
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