A clear change in style which largely welcomes the gritty nature of Crust Punk, incorporated into Darkthrone's already raw BM approach. It's far from the band's best album, but in terms of their Crust Punk influence era (This and the next few albums I believe) this is definitely their best for me. Opener 'The cult of Goliath' is monumental and 'De Underjordiske' seems to have a slightly more BM-oriented sound than usual, but there are a few songs which prove to be boring and simply follow the same structure-But then I suppose that's typical of this particular genre.

A shame that discussions around this album involve genre arguments. We're too old and cold to care and unless you are Satan, fuck off twat. What genre is this? who the fuck cares, crust this, crust that, leave that to nerds to debate about. Normal people only care if its good or not and this is one damn good album. Blackened awesome motorhead metal.