Today, Purity Through
Fire announces April 22nd as
the international release date for Barditus'
striking debut mini-album, Dein Schwert, on
digipack CD format.
Barditus is a studio &
live project of Uwe Nolte, from the cult Orplid, together with Christian S.
from Stern des Bundes. While Orplid's sound is somewhere between neofolk and
neoclassical, with themes ranging from Germanic paganism and Greek mythology to
the Christian symbolism of the early Middle Ages and natural romanticism, here
with Barditus do the duo
explore a sound somewhere between paradigmatic neofolk and black metal - or
even "acoustic black metal," if you will. And while in Orplid the
occidental bastion was defended with the quill, Barditus take
up the sword and unconditionally profess heroism and love.
The passion and power of Barditus here
will be readily recognizable to fans of Orplid, with the
pastoral-on-the-surface acoustics joined in their soon-to-be-bubbling-over
frenzy by sharp shards of dungeonic black metal. That usually Spartan
soundfield gets further filled out by a chorus of incensed voices, pagan
percussion, and malformed synths that could be accordion or Harmonium or other
olde-worlde instrumentation. But, for all the bathos and pathos on display,
when Dein Schwert dips down in
intensity is where its truest power lays: solitude and repose reverberating
within the soul of the ancients.
All told, Dein Schwert is a good
foretaste of the upcoming album Nibelungentreue,
which will cast a spell on admirers of black metal and neofolk alike - because
it has always been Barditus' declared
goal to slay the sword of black metal in the fire reforging neofolk!
In the meantime, see & hear the brand-new video
for "Wald-Gang" HERE
at Uwe Nolte's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as
follows:
Tracklisting
for Barditus' Dein Schwert
1. Fragen an Dresden
2. Wald-Gang
3. Dein Schwert
4. Erwache
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