Album Rating: 4.5
thanks, hyperbore.
i just gave in to temptation and had a chance to listen to the title track from a friend's playlist, and i must say it is one of the most strikingly hypnotic and frightening songs i have ever heard. Emperor have this symphonic beauty about them, but Darkthrone seems to head straight to the core.
i will be looking forward to listening to the whole thing...This Message Edited On 01.17.09
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Album Rating: 4.5
As well you should, it's fucking great. And you're right about them "heading straight to the core" - as with ambient music, all of the band's releases that fall between Soulside Journey and Ravishing Grimness make use of extremely simplistic measures, so it's not surprising how Neptune Towers came about later on. But they do this in a way that suggests something greater than the sum of the music's parts, and that might as well be the definition of "art." Emperor is great as well, but they took a lot less time to start making crap(although their worst was never as bad as Darkthrone's).
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Album Rating: 4.5
well, while im obviously not familiar with the state of quality of Darkthrone's discography, i will say that i first thought they were a punk band(because i had heard FOAD)!
granted, that was before i grew an interest in this genre.This Message Edited On 01.17.09
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Album Rating: 5.0
Don't listen to any of their newer shit wexenhex. Its terrible. Stick to the earlier albums such as this and A Blaze in the Northern Sky and stuff like that. And yeah the title track is by far the best song ever by Darkthrone.
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Album Rating: 4.5
FOAD is amazing, grrrreeeaaaat drinking music
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Album Rating: 5.0
Thats probably the worst black metal album I've ever heard. If you can even call it black metal.
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Album Rating: 4.5
you've clearly only heard about 3 black metal albums, stfu
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah you're absolutely right.
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Rattle your god damn head
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Album Rating: 4.5
Megadeth in a Darkthrone thread...
BLASPHEMY!This Message Edited On 01.18.09
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Album Rating: 4.5
i finally received this and listened to it completely....
Holy fuck, i may just have to make some kinda satanic shrine to this album.
its just that astounding...
Skald Av Satans Sol and Graven Takeheimens Saler are probably my favorite tunes on here/This Message Edited On 01.23.09
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pretty great album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
 Glad you like it, wexenhex. It actually took me a few listens for the album to click, initially, but once it did I was floored. Under A Funeral Moon is also excellent, and A Blaze in the Northern Sky is great although not as coherent in its vision as the other two.This Message Edited On 01.23.09
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Album Rating: 4.5
funny, it clicked almost immediately for me. i didnt think it would, but it did.
Burzum will probably be my next NBM purchase...This Message Edited On 01.23.09
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Album Rating: 5.0
Good choice. Also look into all the early shit by Satyricon, Ulver, Gorgoroth, Immortal, Emperor, and Dimmu Borgir if you haven't already.
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