Blut aus Nord's MoRT out on vinyl
I’m sick as a dog right now, and MoRT (Candlelight, 2006) is the perfect soundtrack. It’s one of the “sickest” metal records I’ve ever heard, up there with Gorguts’ Obscura and anything by Portal. Guitars catch disharmonic diseases, groaning and straining all over the place. A woozy drum machine, perhaps drunk after a Godflesh gig, lurches about. Vocal incantations swoop past in great strokes of reverb. This is illness as music.
Handmade Birds, the new boutique label of R. Loren of Pyramids, has pressed MoRT on vinyl for the first time. This is interesting, as MoRT is not the first thing that comes to mind for vinyl. When I think “vinyl”, I think “natural”. MoRT is about as unnatural as it gets. Does the vinyl warm up or otherwise humanize the sound?
Maybe one of you could tell us. This is a pressing of 250 gatefold LPs available in two colors (white with black splatter and black with hint of brown). James Plotkin remastered the album for vinyl, and David Cragne and Aaron Turner designed the gatefold packaging.
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HEAR MORT
– Full album stream –
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=33164904EA5FEEC6
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BUY MORT (LP)
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