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:
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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