Customer Reviews
True Unholy Black Metal
Culto's voice seems to have gotten more deep and dark vs. This isn't their greatest work, but N. previous work. Fenriz stays with his insane Satanic poetry making this album a step better than Ravishing Grimness.
6 tracks of pure norwegian black metal
In comparison to "Under a Funeral Moon" it is very obvious that Darkthrone has progressed as a band since their earlier years. This is my second Darkthrone CD that I own, the first one I bought was "Under a Funeral Moon". While many black metal elitists would argue that Darkthrone's old, repetitive, primitive, and massively underproduced sound is what made them great, anybody who truly appreciates the music has to admit that this album is great. The production is still not that great, but the music is far more intricate. The songs on this album are about 8 minutes each, and they are all amazing. It is true that you don't get the same totally evil, grim sound that you get from old Darkthrone on this CD, but this album has their older CDs beat in musicianship by far. If you are a true fan of black metal you should still enjoy this even if it isn't quite the same grim black metal sound that they started with.
Fuzzing EVILution
Animalistic but definitely not awkward or clumsy the song-structures are cyclic, energetic and in many times carried by the retro-attack of Fenriz pounding drumming and Nocturno Culto genius riffs. Norse grim rippers are back with another devastating piece of swirling harshness & kult riffage! Indeed I was anticipating this album for a while and it is no more no less THE panzer Darkthrone we are all accustomed to hear, hail & honour! Again the listener is transported to a Void filled with hatred, utter disgust and most importantly the fuzzing garage sonority that launched Black Metal to the genre we all know today.
"Plaguewielder" is also a necessary return to previous ideas and in many ways a step back to construct what was left undone or completely not experimented before. An EVILution on the same pace as "Ravishing Grimness" but that I perceive as a constant return to the uglier origins to bring back the repressed & dirty elements of the past in order to establish the path to a darkened continuation. A move of pure dementia, but one clearly understands that! This is why every album is/has it's own reference point, exhibiting the varied faces of rawness but always belonging to the same necrotic womb.
If one were to explain Darkthrone position within the scene any further it probably wouldn't make any sense weren't they such an influential basis standing aside any trends and always a relief to the ears of the listeners, because the more do you get from them the more do you want, and one never suffers from disillusion by what this due delivers!
Other significant happenings are Fenriz lyrics being more interiorised by N. Culto and consequently better performed, the feelings sound this time more transparent and it makes the sore throat less boring and monochord. The studio work and the overall production does not really deserve too much attention here because we all know very well how Darkthrone is intended to sound, however this album is slightly more polished and as far as I'm concerned no problem or drastic change whatsoever.
The Goat gains it's complete Beast-shape when we're reaching for the end of the album. The opening riff of the second part of ""Wreak" (the last track) leaves my spine shivering with violence, it's totally grim & cold, and 100% of what Norwegian Black Metal is all about! Musical sin is again unleashed and with it a proclamation that Black Metal is not dead and will never be as long as Darkthrone exists! Abyss Magazine @ Nuno M. [CR].
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