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Memoria Vestusa III - Saturnian Poetry

Blut Aus Nord Format: Audio CD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Untitled
2 Païen
3 Tellus Master
4 Forhist
5 Henosis
6 Metaphor of the Moon
7 Clarissima Mundi Lumina

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Product details

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 4.99 x 0.37 inches; 3.04 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Debemur Morti Productions
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2018
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2014
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Debemur Morti Productions
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NB2BY1I
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Autonomeus
5.0 out of 5 stars Majestic black metal, a return to basics
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015
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Vindsval, the visionary mastermind of Blut Aus Nord, returns to his black metal roots with Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry, planting the sound back on the Earth after forays into space on recent albums such as  777: Cosmosophy  and the previous entry in this series,  Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars  (see my review).

This is not raw, rough black metal though. It is finely crafted with a huge, warm sound and majestic melodies conveyed by massed guitars. The relentless drums drive the songs forward with powerful momentum, and the screaming black metal vocals are placed over the top, rather than submerged as on MVII: Dialogue.

The cover art by Kristian Necrolord Wahlin is superb, a dark Tolkien-esque landscape. The impeccable 12-page booklet includes lyrics, some in French, and some in English. Included are poems by Baudelaire and Verlaine.

Here is an English lyric:

"By Her...
By Me,
I understand a being absolutely infinite,
a substance consisting of an infinity of attributes,
of which each one expresses an eternal and infinite essence.

And from the One,
substance of all things,
emanates the Divine."

One of the best metal albums of 2014, without a doubt!
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S Browne
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Effort
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
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Continues in the more prog direction of 777 Cosmophony. This album even features a human drummer. While Vindsval's compositional skills continue to expand on tunes like Tellus Mater and Forhist, the album is further away from the industrial and avant-garde roots of The Work which Transforms God and other earlier albums. This is the reason for the four stars as Vindsval continues to risk morphing to a sound that is much more of a generic post-black metal / shoegaze vibe than the crushing blackness of tunes like Inner Metal Cage or Epitome VIII
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MS
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best black metal albums I
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2017
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Incredible album, one of the best black metal albums I own
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Dee Zee
5.0 out of 5 stars Not my taste but niece loved it
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015
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Got this for my niece (thankfully didn't have to listen to it). She was thrilled with it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015
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This album has such a great feel and atmosphere to it !
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Chris Pikula
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015
Blut Aus Nord never disappoint. Another impressive album.
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Francis Desrochers
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2017
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Awesome return to form, a worthy addition in closing this epic trilogy that began so long ago !
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Barry Howie
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2015
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Keep it \m/ \m/
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Herve
5.0 out of 5 stars memoria vetusta
Reviewed in France on July 12, 2015
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le nouveau BLUT AUS NORD, la suite, et fin (?) de la saga Memoria Vetusta débutée il y a maintenant 18 ans. On l’écoute avec toujours un mélange de dévotion et d’appréhension. On digère ça, on réécoute. Ça demande du temps. Un peu de temps. On commence à l’assimiler, ça demande encore du temps. Beaucoup de temps, on aime mais sans plus. Puis on écoute encore, on commence difficilement à parler de ce nouvel album de l’un des deux plus beaux fleurons du BM hexagonal et puis vient le déclic. Et là, ce n’est plus pareil. On efface tout et on reprend depuis zéro. Il a fallu de la patience, mais jamais d’ennui, du temps et de l’attention pour comprendre ce disque qui pourtant n’a rien d’inaccessible. Une fois que vient ce déclic, heureux celui qui l’aura dès la première écoute, tout devient limpide et simple. Évident. « Memoria Vetusta III » est un beau disque. Magistral et majestueux. Comme peut l’être, toutes proportions gardées, un disque d’Emperor. Froid, mystique, symbolique, cosmique, sacré, païen, épique, mélancolique, ancien, désenchanté, poétique, luciférien… on pourrait en aligner des dizaines d’autres.
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franbar6
5.0 out of 5 stars ........
Reviewed in Germany on January 3, 2015
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...blut aus nord sind bisher an mir vorbeigegangen, bei der überfülle an guten blackmetal bands vielleicht auch verzeihbar..was ich sagen kann und muss, "saturnian poetry" ist ein tolles album geworden, und zusammmen mit paramnesia und great old ones kommt eine grosse französische welle auf uns zu..ich denke, alle haben den backkatalog von wolves in the throne room im schrank stehen, wobei blut aus nord mir an einigen stellen etwas zu sehr in die black/roll schiene gehen, was sie dann eher in satyricon gewässer führt..absolut empfehlenswert!
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