This is true Norwegian black metal! Darkthrone shows us how with poor production and almost identical songs you can create wonderful music that evokes a thousand emotions, in spite of those who listen to Dream Theater (a great band, nothing to say). It's not music for everyone, not even for those who claim to be blacksters by listening to Cradle of Filth. The title track alone would be enough to make this album a masterpiece of the genre. The subsequent songs are in Norwegian to make this album even more impenetrable. The music is cold and Nocturno Culto's voice is sharper than ever. The technique is reduced to a minimum, the bass almost nonexistent, but it is precisely the raw production wanted by Fenriz and co. that makes this album a tribute to the true spirit of black metal! In short, not having this CD is to miss out on something that you simply don't hear anymore these days! A CD that, in my opinion, only a few people will appreciate, but here it's the emotions that count and nothing else!
Just two chords and a voice are enough to convey something that others with a thousand musical tricks couldn't achieve in a thousand years.
Listening to this CD makes you want to scream and send everything and everyone to hell, isolating yourself in complete solitude.
Listening to this album in complete solitude I didn’t think about burning churches or killing someone, I simply thought about myself, no hate, no love, not even apathy, I simply traveled with my mind and that’s it.
This album has to be listened to at least once in a lifetime; some will discard it afterward, but others will discover a new path.
Black Metal is not a genre like the others, it is truth.
Nocturno Culto’s guitar is colder and more chilling than the snow that settles on the peaks of the Norwegian forest pines.