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Blut aus Nord is a french progressive black metal band.

Vindsval, the vocalist and guitarist, made the following statement:

Blut Aus Nord is an artistic concept. We don’t need to belong to a specific category of people to exist. If black metal is just this subversive feeling and not a basic musical style, then Blut Aus Nord is a black metal act. But if we have to be compared to all these childish satanic clowns, please let us work outwards [from] this pathetic circus. This form of art deserves something else than these mediocre bands and their old music composed 10 years before by someone else.¹⁾

In addition to rejecting Satanism, BAN have distanced themselves from nationalism - another common black metal theme - instead recognising a kinship with “environmentalist black metal” groups such as Wolves in the Throne Room.²⁾³⁾