France's Blut aus Nord offer an idiosyncratic vision of black metal at once loud, dissonant, and intense, as well as gloomy, haunting, and melodic. Their constants are musical experimentation and evolution. They employ everything from medieval liturgical music and gothic folk to noisy progressive metal, industrial electronics, and more. That experimental approach was taken for 1996's Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Ages and garnered an international fan base. 2003's The Work Which Transforms God ecstatically proved to be the first wholly industrial black metal album. 200...