Yet another Cold Spring rereleased album from famous black industrial musician Nordvargr discography spins in the player. It is packed in black digipack, externally looking the same as the whole series. There is also remastered sound and few bonus tracks added. Anyways, MZ.412 is classics and I'm very happy to hear it in better quality. Nordik Battle Signs is perhaps one of the most strictly structured MZ.412 albums. It's dark, smelling with fire of satanic industrial rituals, slightly mystified though not deviating from the overall order and norms album. Peculiar colors are brought by soft Tomas Pettersson from Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio voice in the track Algiz / Konvergence of Life And Death. Unconsciously it associates erotic and runology into one totality. But apart from that the album sounds more like the compilation of warlike marches of satanic reich. Most modern slobbery martial musicians and fans that wore out, demystified and desacralized runes and turned themes such as the ones explored in this album into vast emptiness could learn much from Nordik Battle Signs. While listening to the disc, there is not a thought about banality. Here primal elements are beautifully represented in new age perspective. What’s most important – it is done without mockery, post- or neo- prefixes. It's just primitive, dark mythology to the very roots. Another good thing in this disc is full and better sounding version of legendary Legion Ultra that is added as one of the bonus tracks. In the description of the disc there is written that there are four new tracks included though I find only three. Multiple Deity Worship - weaker track that does not quite fit into the whole for me. But the very last one, In Hoc Signo Vinces, fully matches the title. It is the song with persistent majestic impression in strict distorted monotonous rhythms, voices of choirs in the distance and metallic percussions. Quality end for quality album. Despite the fact that there is not a big problem to get older albums of MZ.412 and the prices are not that high, I must congratulate the initiative of Cold Spring to release newly sounding classics into the world.

Format: CD
Released: 2011
Label: Cold Spring Records