DARKTHRONE

Release Year: 2018
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, yet baring a tighter, somewhat more technical approach; recent British black 180g vinyl edition comes with a new black/white cover artwork and a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve