![]() ![]() The riffs sync up nicely with the drumming on "Sempiternal Sepulchrality," another highlight on the album. The mysterious Zephyrous sounds fantastic, and writes just one great riff after another, and they just keep coming song after song. It sounds absolutely incredible on every single song, probably the best part of this album. The guitar tone here is refreshing as well. The band routinely shuffles from riff to riff to riff in these wandering, but controlled, instrumental passages that work as interludes between the brutal vocal leads. But really, Darkthrone has so many different ideas they cycle through here, it makes me wonder what direction the band would have gone in if they had stayed death. The band even works in clever and memorable bass licks (something rather rare for death metal, excluding "Hammer Smashed Face") like in the intro of the standout "Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappdocia" or around the 1:20 mark of "Neptune Towers," a song that also features tons of different riffs and a phenomenal solo. There are numerous instrumental passages on here that range from 30 seconds to a few minutes of just riff-drum fill-riff-drum fill but they all sound great and they flow very smoothly between each other. ![]() I'd always been a fan of their black metal stuff, even when they fused it with crust punk or heavy metal later in their career, but I'd never given this debut a try.įirst off, Darkthrone has always had the ability to craft a song. ![]() The black metal elements of the band are clearly here in rudimentary form, but hearing Darkthrone try their hand at death metal and not fold was a pleasant surprise. ![]()
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