Blut Aus Nord to Release Back Catalogue in US

Candlelight Records confirms June 28 as the US release date for Ultima Thulee and Memoria Vestusta, the previously unavailable back catalog from French extreme metal band Blut Aus Nord. The releases follow the recent reissue of the band's current album, The Work Which Transforms God with the value-added bonus of the band's amazing new ep Thematic Emanation Of Archetypal Mutiplicity, sold separately in Europe.

Ultima Thulee and Memoria Vestusta found initial release in Europe circa 1995. Each contains the band's now signature sound - bleak, dynamic and thoroughly impressive. Kerrang calls it, "the sound of underground metal's black heart, twisted beyond all recognition." Ink 19 continues by calling Blut Aus Nord's music "the soundtrack for a chemical induced meltdown. This is a soundtrack for watching the walls melt, the sky constrict, grow red and dim. That other sound, the sound between tracks, that's the sound of your brain cells dying."

Formed in 1994, Blut Aus Nord redefines music as any extreme music fan (metal or otherwise) knows it. Their macabre creations throw ardent fists in the face of mainstream and mediocrity, resulting in a nightmarish voyage of sonic disharmony. England's SonicDeath says it best when noting, "listening to Blut Aus Nord is like watching your own funeral in slow motion... a great sucking veil of endless, foreboding darkness."

Confirmed track listing for each reissue is noted below.

Ultimate Thulee: 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

Memoria Vestusta: Slaughterday (The Heathen Blood Of Ours), On The Path Of Wolf' Towards Dwarfhill, Sons Of Wisdom, Master Of Elements, The Forsaken Voices Of The, Ghostwood's Shadowy Realm, The Territory Of Witches / Guardians, Of The Dark Lake, Day Of Revenge (The Impure Blood Of Theirs), Father Of The Icy Age

Blut Aus Nord is currently working on material for their next record. Titled MoRT it is expected for release in early 2006.