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DARKTHRONE (featuring ex-SATYRICON's Nocturno Culto, plus STORM / ISENGARD / ex-DODHEIMSGARD / AURA NOIR's Fenriz, aka Herr Glyve Nagel)-- now classic and essential triumphant come-back album, their fifth full-length album (the first on Moonfog) of CELTIC FROST / HELLHAMMER-influenced Norwegian Black Metal!
Released by Moonfog Productions Norway/ TER!

* Line-Up:
Nocturno Culto - Vocals
Fenriz - Drums, guitar, bass, songwriting (including synth and vocals on "Snø Og Granskog (Utferd)").

* TRACK-LIST:

1. En Vind Av Sorg / A Wind of Sorrow (6:21)
2. Triumphant Gleam (4:25)
3. The Hordes of Nebulah (5:33)
4. Hans Siste Vinter / His Last Winter (4:50)
5. Beholding the Throne of Might (6:07)
6. Quintessence (7:38)
7. Snø Og Granskog [Utferd] / Snow and Spruce Forest [Outro] (4:09)

* Background notes:

Recorded in February/April 1994 in Necrohell Studios.
Fenriz handled all instruments on this album, as confirmed in at least two separate interviews.
The lyrics to "Quintessence" are written by Varg Vikernes.
"Snø Og Granskog" is an old poem by Tarjei Vesaas.

* [Official] DISCOGRAPHY:

01. ''Soulside Journey'' (Peaceville)
02. ''A Blaze in the Northern Sky'' (Peaceville/MFN)
03. ''Under A Funeral Moon'' (Peaceville/MFN)
04. ''Transilvanian Hunger'' (Peaceville/MFN/Modern Invasion)
05. ''Panzerfaust'' (Moonfog)
06. ''Total Death'' (Moonfog)
07. ''Goatlord'' (Moonfog)
08. ''Ravishing Grimness'' (Moonfog)
09. ''Preparing For War'' (Peaceville)
10. Hate Them (Moonfog)
11. Sardonic Wrath (Moonfog)

* COMPILATIONS:

1. ''New Blood From the Forearms of Peaceville'' 7-inch EP featuring:
G.G.F.H., Pitch-Shifter, Darkthrone (''Nor the Silent Whispers'' from ''Soulside Journey''), and Amnesia (Peaceville/Deaf/Dreamtime/Major Records)
2. ''Volume 4'' CD various-artists (Peaceville)
3. ''Crusade From the North'' Double-CD various-artists (Moonfog)
4. ''Moonfog 2000 - A Different Perspective'' DOUBLE-CD (Moonfog)

* Additional info:
'Panzerfaust' starts right where 'Transilvanian Hunger' left off, with a highspeed wall of freezing guitars and obscure, haunting melodies...however, things turn around very quickly on the second track as the HELLHAMMER / CELTIC FROST influences that Fenriz (see also STORM, ISENGARD, NEPTUNE TOWERs, etc.) now mentions constantly in every interview come into play. Slowing way, way down, the duo (by this time, of course, Zephyrous had left) painfully grind out abysmal, howling black prayers to the night and its infernal forces using the crushing, sludge-heavy style that Tom G. Warrior made so popular with his agonizing 'Triumph of Death', keeping the atmosphere and aggression intact with simple riff-based songs that are nevertheless incredibly powerful. 'Triumphant Gleam', 'The Hordes of Nebulah', and 'Beholding the Throne of Might' are just massive, monolithic, gouging anthems, as heavy as black metal could ever get, and among this band's best work. The rest of the album is just as good, and that's why so many people put this album on their top ten lists when it comes to favorite black metal releases. Also, DARKTHRONE's alliance with BURZUM did not end with 'Transilvanian Hunger', as Varg Vikernes wrote the lyrics to the sixth song on this album, 'Quintessence' - a track which features what must be Nocturno Culto's most crazed, demonic, and horrifying vocal performance. This album is a classic, enough said...

* Excerpt of some lyrics from 'QUINTESSENCE':
"Five million christians on a ride toward us... oh, I slaughtered the bunch with one single hit (with my spear)... Five million women so alone in the night, oh, I had them all satisfied profusely (every night by myself)..."

Format:   CD (Formats Info here)
Label: Moonfog Productions, Norway / TER, USA
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