MoRT is an avant-garde metal album by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Blut aus Nord

Blut Aus Nord

Blut Aus Nord is a black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, France, which has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music.-Biography:Vindsval began a solo project, under the name "Vlad", in 1994. He released two demos before changing the project's name to Blut aus Nord, before the release of...

, released in 2006.

Style

On this release the band completely abandons traditional black metal songwriting and structure for a sort of free-form dissonance which, while intricately structured, confounds the listener's traditional perceptions of what constitutes structure. Some listeners hailed it as a masterpiece, claiming that it took the experiments on previous Blut aus Nord releases to their logical conclusion and represented some of the most terrifying music ever set to record; others dismissed it as a pointless exercise in weirdness for weirdness' sake, or argued that the removal of traditional structure from the band's song material also removed what was most interesting about the music in the first place. 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.

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.