In the realm of “True Norwegian Black Metal,” Darkthrone remains among the most influential groups. Their sophomore album, A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992), was revolutionary for its time as the ...
Darkthrone are one of black metal's most defining yet atypical acts. They don't wear corpse paint... well, aside from a couple highly influential early '90s album covers. They never got involved in ...
Darkthrone has been around for over three decades at this point, and has almost always been the duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto. So how has the band stayed together for so long and made as much great ...
Among the bands from the Norwegian Second Wave of Black Metal, Darkthrone have always been one of our favorites. While they started off as questionable and mired in controversy as any of their peers — ...
Fenriz compared the song to a couple other acts in a lengthy statement, which reads, There really isn’t just ONE song that can represent this album, "The Hardship of the Scots" was my song and ...
Darkthrone will release their next album It Beckons Us All on April 26 via Peaceville Records (pre-order). They’re prefacing it with just one single, “Black Dawn Affiliation,” which is out now. The ...
The guitarist, bassist and vocalist for the world's most uncompromising underground metal duo walks through the making of their latest album, Eternal Hails..... When you purchase through links on our ...
One of the most elusive, iconic and musically knowledgeable pioneers of the second wave of black metal, Darkthrone multi-instrumentalist Gylve Fenris Nagell (better known as just Fenriz) has stormed ...
Norway’s Darkthrone made some of the most influential black metal albums of the ’90s, and although guitarist Zephyrous left in 1993, the core duo of vocalist/guitarist Nocturno Culto and drummer ...
In his novel The Third Realm, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about a fictional black metal band called Domen. The band never records and only rarely plays live – in secret, in the middle ...
Black metal figurehead Glyve “Fenriz” Nagell now has another job in addition to being one half of Darkthrone: he’s a backup representative for his local town council in Kolbotn, Norway. In a new ...