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Under a Funeral MoonDarkthrone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DARKTHRONE - UNDER A FUNERAL MOON (CD) |   | |||
| 1993 - Peaceville Records | |||||||
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Tracklist
1. Natassja in Eternal Sleep 2. Summer of the Diabolical Holocaust 3. The Dance of Eternal Shadows 4. Unholy Black Metal 5. To Walk the Infernal Fields 6. Under a Funeral Moon 7. Inn I De Dype Skogers Fabn 8. Crossing the Triangle of Flames  the lyrics |
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| ‘Under a Funeral Moon’ was Darkthrone’s second foray away from the early death metal stylings of their debut into full blown black metal. It was and still is an instant classic of the genre, created with a swirling maelstorm of ice cold, malevolent riffs and inhuman shrieks and covered in that classic monochromatic cover style that adorned ‘A Blaze in the Northern Sky’. Its difficult to say anything new or original about this album, as it has a well documented history as an undisputed classic, but the sheer amount of grimness in this record has proven somewhat difficult to surpass even in the 15 odd years since it’s release. The key element of the album, captured perfectly in tracks like ‘Natassja in Eternal Sleep’ and ‘To Walk the Infernal Fields’, is the icy atmosphere of foreboding, of danger, of evil. It’s like something you would experience wandering through a snowy forest in the dead of night, the feeling that something is there, something intangible and yet something inherently haunting. Nocturno Culto’s shrieking rasp only adds to the harsh raw sound that the minimalistic approach has created. Darkthrone never seemed to be overly concerned with the amount of riffs in a song, or even the quality of them but more with the hypnotic edge that the repititon brings. It is this that helps the atmosphere and creates such a quality album. Early black metal albums were rife with examples of atmosphere over musicianship, and Darkthrone were a perfect example. They may have now become a ‘black n roll’ metal band rather than the frost-bitten force for evil and dread that their classic triumvirate of influential albums suggest, but those three albums (A Blaze in the Northern Sky, this and Transilvanian hunger) have a legacy that survives to this day and it is one that is well deserved. Style over substance maybe, but when you’ve got this kind of style, maybe the substance isn’t that necessary. | ||
| 1 comment | Wednesday 08 October 2008 | |
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