Description

The 2005 album from the Russian band Nord N Commander, Hermeneutics, is black metal mixed with archaic melodies of folk flute and ambient parts. Nord N Commander is a Russian incarnation of Ulver, Laibach and Depeche Mode. The band started in the late 90s as an otherworldly pioneering techno band Vanthit (which recorded two albums), after which, in 2001, having renamed themselves Nord N Commander and their debut, Sacred Spear Aftersounds, was a blackened industrial album with some avant-garde inclinations. The band then went into gothic territories still with lots of oddities added on the following albums. On the Hermeneutics album it seems like they have returned to experiments on the path of Black Art. Its a thoughtful multi-level work. Black metal pierces the heaps of industrial, gloomy dark folk dances with ambient and noise. Simplicity and complexity, genius and villainy, technogenesis and Tradition. Mind-blowing, extremely esoteric lyrics (there are even a few lines in Icelandic).

Track list:
1. The Omen Im In
2. Ein Vorzeichen Des Kommenden
3. Volkhv
4. Journey To The Pole Of Archetypes
5. Desolate Thalweg
6. To The Abyss Of Boiling Blood
7. Mistress Of The Ferry / A V Nashego Shuma
8. Drifting Into Pessimistical Sleep
9. Schlaff In Allem
10. War-tribute to Burzum
11. Crystal Mountain-tribute to Death
12. Brothers Of Metal-tribute to Manowar