Sometimes articulating what it is you love about a band's music can, to an extent, damage the magic the music in question has on you. Sometimes. So, as a Darkthrone fanboy, it feels like I should approach all this delicately.
Cos Darkthrone's the fucking tits. All hail Darkthrone \ m /
Their previous four full lengths seem to have, in general, successfully split their fanbase in two. On one side you've got the fans of their old kvlt stuff exclusively, the "the fuck is this wannabe 80s punk shit" people, and on the other you have the "if you don't like this, you don't like real metal, so FOAD" types. I lean toward the latter side. Their newer stuff teems and sloshes with the kind of inebriated energy I love most from heavy music. Their older stuff? Some of it kinda did, some of it didn't at all.
For the first time in three years everyone's favorite demonic duo are back with another platter of new wave of blackened crust punk fun. Leave the detraction to lesser men, leave no cross unturned and no beer unopened.
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They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink
They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end
But everybody's only looking out for themselves
And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
^^^Reminds me of a more black metal King Diamond. I dig it quite a bit and look forward the album's release...
why keep people saying it reminds them of Kind Diamond when it sounds way more like a mix of Exciter and Agent Steel, especially the John Cyriis like vocals and halfway it goes into total Celtic Frost territory
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
why keep people saying it reminds them of Kind Diamond when it sounds way more like a mix of Exciter and Agent Steel, especially the John Cyriis like vocals and halfway it goes into total Celtic Frost territory
Maybe cuz those of us saying King Diamond are not as familiar with those aforementioned bands as you?
why keep people saying it reminds them of Kind Diamond when it sounds way more like a mix of Exciter and Agent Steel, especially the John Cyriis like vocals and halfway it goes into total Celtic Frost territory
Maybe cuz those of us saying King Diamond are not as familiar with those aforementioned bands as you?
and given Darkthrone's penchant for more obsucre heavy metal and speed metal and referecing that in their music it is also way more logical to have Agent Steel and Exciter shine through than KD ;-)
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
and given Darkthrone's penchant for more obsucre heavy metal and speed metal and referecing that in their music it is also way more logical to have Agent Steel and Exciter shine through than KD ;-)
Fair enough, you would know better about the older metal than I do. Plus I never got that big into Darkthrone but since I have recently acquired a slight taste for crust punk and knowing that Darkthrone shifted to crustpunk some albums back and now hearing this new (and rather interesting) shift I am thinking I need to go back and give Darkthrone another listen.
I have all their albums up to The Cult Is Alive but since I never acquired much of a taste for them or crust punk I never bothered to check out anything past TCIA... *shrug*
Written by psykometal on 19.01.2013 at 01:50 I have all their albums up to The Cult Is Alive but since I never acquired much of a taste for them or crust punk I never bothered to check out anything past TCIA... *shrug*
If you liked this then check out the ones after TCIA.... They didn't really continue with crust punka fter that one.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
Yeah, I'm not fan of new Darkthrone, but hey, let's just listen to old Darkthrone and that's it. Who cares if they suck now...
It would be so awesome if more people were like you. xD To hear the same whiny comments was fun the first or two times they released an album of this style but now it's getting old.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
Can't wait to read *another* wave of "their latest stuff sucks so much* comments.
They suck because they aren't kvlt!!! Jk, I actually love all their new stuff, but it helps that I am already a fan of crust punk to begin with. But yeah I am looking forward to more people bitching about how they aren't full on black metal anymore, it just shows who appreciates the music versus those who listen to old Darkthrone to gain some kind of status or whatever it is they are trying to do.
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"Cross is only an iron,hope is just an illusion,freedom is nothing but a name..."
"Build your walls of the dead stone...Build your roofs of a dead wood..Build your dreams of a dead thoughts"
Leave No Cross Unturned ended up being the highlight for me. Love that song. Rest of the album is all really good, none of it hits me as hard as that track and their previous four full lengths do though.