French black metalers BLUT AUS NORD will release their new album, entitled 777 - Sect(s) on April 18th in Europe and April 19th in North America via Debemur Morti Productions. Complete album details to follow.

The band recently launched their new website with the following message:

"For Dogmas Of Time obsess us all... The virtual source opens its gates again, it all starts at BlutAusNord.com. ."

Originating in 1994 from the ashes of VLAD (who released two demos), BBlut Aus Nord are undisputable French black metal pioneers, always managing to progress and move forward, evolving in perpetual mutation, developing their own vision of black metal. Choosing, from the start, the total opposite path of regressive bands (who copy what others have done ten years earlier and ten times better), Blut Aus Nord eschews all the inherent clichés belonging to the genre. Blut Aus Nord's black metal approach is a fist in the face of mainstream mediocrity, becoming more macabre and sinister through a blend of innovative musical research, subliminal mental manipulation, and an incredible haunted, nightmarish feeling based on disharmony. Blut Aus Nord are creators of a hallucinogenic universe, erasing all preconceived ideas of black meetal - and extreme music in general. They redefine the rules...

Debemur Morti Productions has reissued the Blut Aus Nord classic, The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion. The album is currently available on vinyl through the label's website. The 2xCD version of this black metal masterpiece, the second disc of which features brand new material, The Fall (Chapters 7, 7 & 7), was released on January 17th in Europe and will be available on February 8th in North America. A new t-shirt design is available as well.

A bundle containing both the 2xCD and the t-shirt is also available.

Debemur Morti Productions has also made the vinyl edition of Blut Aus Nord's spell-binding debut, Ultima Thulée available for order. For more details or to purchase either release, visit Debemur-morti.com.

'The Son Of Hoarfrost'

'The Plain Of Ida'

'From Hlidskjalf'

'My Prayer Beyond Ginnungagap'

'Till' I Perceive Bifrost'

'On The Way To Vigrid'

'Rigsthula'

'The Last Journey Of Ringhorn'

In 1995, Ultima Thulée marked the beginning of Blut Aus Nord's bold journey toward transcendence through Black Metal. One of the first albums - if not the first - to emerge from the now-legendary French scene, Ultima Thulée displays a much different Blut Aus Nord than the twisted, dissonant trailblazer evident on more recent releases. Nevertheless, the fires of creation burn ever-brightly within mainman Vindsval as he explores pagan mysticism through epic song lengths and a thick, morbid guitar tone. The imagination takes flight, exploring sombre textures drenched in blood and moonlit with majesty. Recorded in 1995, the ground-breaking decadence of Ultima Thulée is presented here in its original, unaltered state. Never released on vinyl before, now hear Blut Aus Nord's Ultima Thulée in its definitive form.

The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion

'The Fall: Chapter I'

'The Fall: Chapter II'

'The Fall: Chapter III'

'The Fall: Chapter IV'

'The Fall: Chapter V'

'The Fall: Chapter VI'

'The Fall: Chapter 7'

'The Fall: Chapter 7'

'The Fall: Chapter 7'

Considered by many to be the band's greatest work, Blut Aus Nord's The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion marked a crucial transition from the French enigma's Black Metal genesis toward a discordant, forward-thinking future. Originally released in 2001, The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion surges with hypnotic fury, inducing trance-like states through increasingly dissonant riffing. Now buttressed by an entire bonus CD/LP's worth of new material (that slows proceedings to a murky crawl), Blut Aus Nord's The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion has become an even taller monolith of obsidian dread. With this reissue, Blut Aus Nord consummates the original work, delving deeper into the abyss first entered almost a decade ago. Three new songs have been written - "The Fall (Chapter 7, 7 and... 7)" - comprising an exclusive new album that plots a divergent path to the same destination. In conjunction with the brutal, hypnotic minimalism of the first six chapters, these crawling, cavernous pieces give the masterpiece a more wholesome dimension. In line with the defiant mindset of today, the second part of this release sees the band try new things, writing the thickest track of their history: a painful progression subtly roaring over 19 oppressing minutes. In order to establish an equilibrium, every artist should be afforded an opportunity to showcase the antithesis of his work. With this surprising reissue, Blut Aus Nord takes up the mantle and presents The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion in an intriguing new light.