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Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness



8.7 | 1013 votes |
Release date: 5 February 2002
Style: Black metal

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Disc I [CD]
01. One By One
02. Sons Of Northern Darkness
03. Tyrants
04. Demonium
05. Within The Dark Mind
06. In My Kingdom Cold
07. Antarctica
08. Beyond The North Waves

Disc II [DVD: Live at the B.B. King New York 2003] [Deluxe Edition bonus]
01. Wrath From Above
02. Damned In Black
03. One By One
04. Tyrants (Part 1)
05. Tyrants (Part 2)
06. Solarfall
07. Beyond The North Waves

Top 20 albums of 2002: 8
Top 200 albums of all time: 179

Additional info
Produced by Peter Tagtgren. Co-produced by Abbath and Horgh.

Guest review by
Carl Berg
Rating:
9.0
Sons Of Northern Darkness is Immortal's seventh studio album, following the good but not great Damned In Black. The expectations were pretty high for this record, especially that Damned In Black could not fully live up to the majestic At The Heart Of Winter. So, is this new album worthy of Immortal? Does it deliver that cold, chilly Immortal-esque feeling that we all love? Let's find out.

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published 27.09.2010 | Comments (17)

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21.11.2011 - 09:55
Rating: 7
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
The DVD's a waste of time. Don't bother putting it on unless you just want to listen to it.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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21.11.2011 - 10:28
Rating: 9
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Surely Abbath does something comical, no?
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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05.05.2012 - 00:53
Rating: 7
Rockfellas

One of the greatest black metal of all time
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05.05.2012 - 01:13
Rating: 10
InnerSelf
proofread free
Still one of my all time favorite BM albums, among the top 5 for sure
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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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07.08.2012 - 00:23
serega25

No words to say, just... Perfection...
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28.03.2013 - 20:15
Rating: 9
John Sandman

My vote was the 666 vote \m/
Not the biggest fan of black metal with the obvious excpetion of Immortal. Excellent!
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25.11.2013 - 22:20
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Great album, better then previously version and seems band came back whit something, and I dont remember reason why band did split up, but this is good, a little bit winter touch, not such strong as before, but you can feel it, my fav song is In My Kingdom Cold
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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22.03.2014 - 02:12
Rating: 9
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Love the influence Zeppelin has on black metal, especially on tracks like "Tyrants" and Behemoth's "O Father O Satan O Sun" that both borrow the main riff from "Kashmir".
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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05.04.2014 - 21:59
Rating: 8
Erik M.

So far I don't like it as much as At the Heart of Winter. Let's see how more spins do this album justice.
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19.12.2016 - 13:36
Basil

This is a real masterpiece!
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24.12.2016 - 04:34
Rating: 9
DeathMetal

Dang, this is good.
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11.04.2018 - 01:10
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid

I certainly agree that the band were aiming for the same musical direction with both this effort and Damned in Black, but I have to say that Sons of Northern Darkness has more memorable moments. Ideas are stretched a little further (which results in my favourite thing about the album being the last three songs) meaning that generally the song lengths here are justified whereas before (apart from At the Heart of Winter of course) some songs seemed a little rushed. I guess that's the punky, thrashy side of the band rearing its ugly head. But yeah, here I enjoyed pretty much the same thing that I appreciated on ...Winter, which is that pretty much every song demonstrates a more (please don't murder me in my sleep for mentioning this term, BM kremlins) "progressive" song structure. Because of this, "Antarctica" and "Beyond the North Waves" are brilliant.
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31.07.2018 - 05:44
Rating: 7
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
One by One is a sick song and the rest of the album fails to live up to it, and even gets pretty mediocre and borderline boring.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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06.01.2019 - 21:39
Rating: 9
Maasai Mara

A more mature At the Heart of Winter and the peak of the sound Immortal began on the Pure Holocaust. Which is better between this and AtHoW is a question akin to between the 1000th woman you bed and the 1098th you bed which represents the greater achievement.
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You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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28.11.2019 - 15:24
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Maasai Mara on 06.01.2019 at 21:39

s a question akin to between the 1000th woman you bed and the 1098th you bed which represents the greater achievement.


Hahhahahaaahha does it matter how many wonen you had, ? if you are sucker in bad you cant be better, same in metal, this is good album, more raging, more grimm, more as Immortal all is about
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
[image]
I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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29.11.2019 - 19:22
Rating: 9
Maasai Mara

Written by Bad English on 28.11.2019 at 15:24


Hahhahahaaahha does it matter how many wonen you had, ? if you are sucker in bad you cant be better, same in metal, this is good album, more raging, more grimm, more as Immortal all is about


the more women you bed the better you become in sex, unless it's different in Norway. I agree it is the most grim and raging of the Immortal discography and surely personally it is my favorite Immortal Album.
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You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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24.03.2022 - 02:30
Rating: 9
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Really great black metal that almost reaches the same perfection as At the Heart of Winter
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25.04.2022 - 17:11
Rating: 10
SilverFox75

Simply their best album
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