DARKTHRONE

Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: raw grim atmospheric black metal

after a handful of fundamental recordings in earlier nineties, with Fenriz determined to try more diverse means of expression, diving into no less than three side projects, Norwegian black metal godfathers have come to a breaking point and eventually have restricted their activities for couple of years, yet before that the celebrated duo have released this deadly eight tracker [1996] that sounded quite different from what their typically ferocious and devastating releases were offering at a time, aiming at ill-natured atmosphere coming out of raucous, underground, imperfect sound, creating a recurring sonic foundation, spreading bleak, hypnotic desolation of northern darkness filled with despair, yet baring a tighter, somewhat more technical approach; recent British super jewel box edition comes with God of Disturbance & Friction bonus from label compilation and additional disc, where Fenriz and Nocturno Culto comment and reflect on the recording process, as well as make insight on time of the recording itself