To the layman, all black metal sounds like Dark Throne.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Darkthrone.jpg
this is my favourite artist picture ever.i only heard Transilvanian Hunger (i guess it's the right one to hear) sounds like a cool broken tape. Darkthrone might be a bit like Jandek, you actually WANT to like this, and then you do.
― Ludo, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Am I damn fool for not having paid attention since Plague Wielder? I never dug that and Ravishing Grimness all that much, so I figured there was no point in keeping up.I think I still have a Transylvanian Hunger shirt somewhere -- I'm probably too fat for it now, which is METAL \m/
Can't say I'm particularly curious about Fenriz' split with Nattefrost, despite the silly name ("Engangsgrill")
― Øystein, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I am a damn fool for still buying every Darkthrone record. It's more of a charity thing I guess. They're fun for a few spins like latter day Motorhead records.
I have an old A Blaze shirt which I wear proudly but but not too often since I moved to one of the most unmetal cities on earth. Apart from the grim and frostbitten mountains.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Darkthrone rule. This is a fact. Such variety over the years too! The range from "goatlord" to "panzerfaust" to "F.O.A.D" is part of what keeps the plot interesting. I wear my "Total Death" sweatshirt with pride.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Thursday, 7 May 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S0FvMOce1cc/Ss89foQADWI/AAAAAAAADfo/clvO8VCjrHQ/s1600-h/fenriz.png
― badg, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/302/fenriz.png
― badg, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Fenriz having a Plastikman tattoo *and* a tattoo for the Guidance label is still a mindblower to me. It's so "fuck it" that's it's just more punk than having some axe-wielding troll tattoo or whatever.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm absolutely a Soulside Journey guy. The rest of it... is fine.
i read this as "I'm absolutely a Southside Johnny guy. The rest of it... is fine." which made me lol heartily.
― Fighting words,man. Just shut up. (Ioannis), Monday, 12 October 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that beach ball is actually deflating fenriz.
― LIVIN' IN A JAM SPREAD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 October 2009 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that would explain his bizarre posture
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SLbG854r1iI/AAAAAAAABAg/l6Ge3ubUr-k/s1600-h/fenritz_tattoo.jpg
― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Monday, 12 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SLbG854r1iI/AAAAAAAABAg/l6Ge3ubUr-k/s1600-h/fenritz_tattoo.jpg
― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Monday, 12 October 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Dilberts Hund
― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Monday, 12 October 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
After an initial few listens, staying away for a few months, and returning to it last night, I've come to the conclusion that I LOVE Transilvanian Hunger. I find the odd chord changes completely gripping; I haven't delved into them theory-wise, but they're definitely a defining characteristic of this record (and not of a type I've encountered much). They're somehow catchy, even though they're non-intuitive. It's one of those records where, when I'm not listening to it, I have a hard time conjuring up anything specific about it, but when it's on I get this really intense deja vu-like connection to it, as if I can feel in my gut where each turn will lead. Its immersiveness is very similar in spirit to me to Loveless, actually, and not to any other record I can think of.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
under a funeral moon robbed in this thread; also, maybe more understandably, sardonic wrath
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Under a funeral moon seems to be everyone's second favourite Darkthrone record.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
TH is perfection
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 31 May 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
like everything i wanted black metal to be when i finally dived into it
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 31 May 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
transilvanian hunger is the sound of a band that knew precisely what they wanted to do and executed it flawlessly. first-rate.
― original bgm, Friday, 1 June 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've gone from gently dabbling in this band to loving them full-stop in like two months. This quote now makes complete and total sense to me:
For me, Darkthrone's one of those bands who routinely occupy that "this is the only band I want to listen to, everything else is bullshit" space. Some people think they've been taking the piss for years. Could be! I think Darkthrone's piss-taking beats most bands' seriousness though.
― J0hn D., Friday, October 5, 2007 10:27 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
PANZERFAUST is fucking INCREDIBLE. The riffs are so ridiculously catchy, too; I get them stuck in my head all the time.
― Clarke B., Monday, 16 July 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
A Blaze in the Northern Sky has to have one of my favorite album openings of all time... The way "Kathaarian Life Code" starts with that nearly hilarious solemn droning chant, cold and corpselike, Nocturno Culto spitting out words like they're nails stuck in his throat, "we..... ah..... a-blaze.... in zuh nawthen... sky": then KKKZZZWWWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! [pf ch pf ch pf ch pf ch], like electrocuted animals ripping through the skin of that drone and just attacking everything around them... I can't think of many records that begin with that much exhilaration.
― Clarke B., Friday, 27 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
ravishing grimness is incredible, just one awesome riff after another
which describes every darkthrone record but yeah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 27 July 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Good to know; I keep wondering where to start with the post-Panzerfaust stuff
― Clarke B., Saturday, 28 July 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
also plaguewielder has the reputation as being the worst darkthrone record and i can see why b/c the production is clean as hell and the riffs are kind of distant and uninviting, but i don't know, i still think it's great!. "i, voidhanger"!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 July 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
the underground resistance! "valkyrie"!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sort of a dabbler with this band--i like transilvanian hunger and their last one, circle the wagons a bunch--but i'm really digging the new one! where should i go from here?
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
Dark Thrones and Black Flags? A Blaze in the Northern Sky? Pretty much can't lose with the last couple and the first 3 black metal albums.
Oh shit, yeah, PANZERFAUST is really, really good.
― new hope for orang-utan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hope their next album's called The Drexciya btw.
― new hope for orang-utan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
Fenriz is typically super enthusiastic about UR in the new issue of Terrorizer fyi
― an average girl realizing that leggings aren't helping the cause (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
the singing on the new one is a kick
― j., Sunday, 10 March 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Darkthrone's one of those bands who routinely occupy that "this is the only band I want to listen to, everything else is bullshit" space."
except not routinely because I only just started listening to them. didn't expect I would like it so much tho
― Dominique, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=90237
This time all the lyrics seem to be, again coincidentally, about Judgment, sans “Valkyrie,” which is a song to my woman.
― j., Friday, 12 July 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
i used to kinda hate listening to the frostland tapes (i mean, relative to their other stuff - it was still better than listening to, say, kokomo). these days it all i want to listen to, for some reason. i get really lost in it.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 September 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
the correct answer to this q though is transilvanian hunger, though, obv, before anyone gets any ideas about what im saying here
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 September 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Underground Resistance is such a fucking killer album. Fuck yes Darkthrone
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 1 September 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
wtf Under a Funeral Moon 0 votes
― Dominique, Monday, 2 September 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
hate them & cult is alive got one apiece vs. 0 for the one that rivals transilvanian hunger so yes wtf/lol. I suspect those two votes were "I like the name of this one best" votes tho
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 2 September 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
hate them and cult is alive are fine, but i refuse to believe they are anybody's favorite darkthrone album
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 2 September 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
enjoying the love that panzerfaust got though. on the right days that's my favorite darkthrone album
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 2 September 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
I had always assumed Blaze... was considered to be THE classic, wrongly I suppose
― Neil S, Monday, 2 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
"Underground Resistance" is awesome, we were driving around the other day and "Leave No Cross Unturned" made the drive into something epic
― the tune was space, Monday, 2 September 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
blaze is 2nd imo
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 2 September 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I think Under a Funeral Moon, Blaze, and Transylvanian are my favs. the latter being the first I heard
― Neanderthal, Monday, 2 September 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Those are the three I know best, getting hold of Panzerfaust RIGHT NOW though!
― Neil S, Monday, 2 September 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
Leave No Cross Unturned better end up in EOY tracks
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 07:51 (ten years ago) link
under a funeral moon > transilvanian hunger > a blaze in the northern sky (tho they stand really close to each other)
'ravishing grimness' comes next. guess i need to listen to 'panzerfaust' again. never really cared that much about that one.
― rusty_allen, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Transilvanian hunger is mesmerizing
― Treeship, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Never would have thought to listen to it if not for the first post itt, so thx
― Treeship, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link