Blut Aus Nord‘s new single “The Ordeal” was offered up to the public today, October 21st. The avant-garde French black metal band will have that song featured on their upcoming 16th full-length album “Ethereal Horizons“, due out November 28th. A video for this latest song from that record was shot with director Alex Moreán (Aversio Humanitatis). The band’s vocalist/guitarist Vindsval said of it:
“‘The Ordeal‘ refers both to judgment — not necessarily divine — and to suffering. Any profound spiritual journey involves a form of trial; you cannot avoid that pain. Seeking to understand, to rise, to give meaning to our existence inevitably means confronting our own flaws and a certain inner anguish. But this pain is not in vain — it is essential to transformation and transcendence. Religion, and more broadly spirituality, is not torment in itself; it reflects the perpetual inner struggle between our shadows and our light.”
