MoRT explained

MoRT
Type:studio
Artist:Blut Aus Nord
Cover:MoRT cover.jpg
Released:October 23, 2006
Genre:Avant-garde metal, industrial black metal
Length:47:15
Label:Candlelight Records
Prev Title:The Work Which Transforms God
Prev Year:2003
Next Year:2007

MoRT (an acronym for "Metamorphosis of Realistic Theories"; Mort is also the French word for death) is an album by French black metal band Blut Aus Nord, released in 2006. The album showcases the band expanding upon the experimentation of their previous release The Work Which Transforms God by abandoning traditional songwriting in favour of free-form dissonance.

Album Information

Before the album was released, an alternate set of song titles was leaked, yet it did not correspond to the number of tracks that appeared on the finished album. This is perhaps a hint that this would originally have been a double album or part of a concept that is yet unfinished.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Chapter 1" - 6:04
  2. "Chapter 2" - 4:44
  3. "Chapter 3" - 5:08
  4. "Chapter 4" - 5:41
  5. "Chapter 5" - 6:35
  6. "Chapter 6" - 5:02
  7. "Chapter 7" - 6:39
  8. "Chapter 8" - 7:20

Pre-release track listing leak

  1. Ruins of the Genesis (Antiparticles)
  2. Dis-Harmonization of All Visual Echoes
  3. Fusion with the Zero
  4. Samsaric Ocean
  5. The Meditation of the Ghost (Samadhi)
  6. Le Cercle de Ceux Qui Pleurent
  7. Alienation of the Orphans

"Le Cercle de Ceux Qui Pleurent" translates as "The Circle of Those Who Cry".

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.metalorgie.com/metal/interviews.php?id=211