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Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky



8.5 | 554 votes |
Release date: 26 February 1992
Style: Black metal

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01. Kathaarian Life Code
02. In The Shadow Of The Horns
03. Paragon Belial
04. Where Cold Winds Blow
05. A Blaze In The Northern Sky
06. The Pagan Winter

Top 20 albums of 1992: 13

Additional info
Engineered by Erik Avnskog.
Recorded in Creative Studios in August 1991.

Guest review by
Vikingocalypse;
Rating:
9.0
What a change eh? From clean faces and jeans to all black and corpse paint. For A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Euronymous (who this album is dedicated to) worked with DarkThrone, getting them to make black metal. The sound of A Blaze In The Northern Sky is responsible for creating DarkThrone's legacy. It has been apparent on every album ever since.

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published 15.07.2009 | Comments (29)

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12.09.2011 - 20:58
Rating: 10
musicalkaratekid

One of my favourite black metal albums of all time. I know this has everything a 'true' black metal album should have(according to some of the media anyway), but that doesn't take away its power and brilliant songwriting! 'Kathaarian Life Code' is colossal and the title track just blew me away at first listen! \m/
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21.11.2012 - 01:30
Illog1cal
Account deleted
These guys know how to make some stunning effects in their music.
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17.11.2013 - 16:14
Rating: 8
NocturnalStalker
Metal Addict
Essential black metal album.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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22.12.2013 - 15:22
Rating: 7
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
"Paragon Belial" was pretty enjoyable. Otherwise nothing too special, but more varied compared to Transilvanian Hunger.
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22.10.2015 - 06:44
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Yup, my favorite Darkthrone album.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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12.07.2017 - 18:51
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Tage Westerlund
In that time, well it was new, kick ass but now, after so many BM subgenres and bands, I don't see anything special about it. We have better bands nowadays.
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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02.10.2018 - 20:26
Rating: 9
Sang Dalang Abu

A Blaze in the Northern Sky > Transilvanian Hunger > Under a Funeral Moon
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16.11.2020 - 09:15
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Some of you may know that a first edition print of "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" has been featured at the The National Library of Norway's (Nasjonalbiblioteket ) new permanent exhibition called Enlightened.

This exhibition features highlights from Norwegian cultural history dating from the year 1100, up to the present day.
Do check out Nocturno Culto's fascinating interview with journalist and writer Harald Fossberg about the album, the scene and Darkthrone and the honour of being included in this exhibition.
The clip has subtitles in English

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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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12.08.2021 - 11:13
Rating: 6
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
This is way too long for its own good
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12.08.2021 - 21:40
Rating: 8
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by Roman Doez on 12.08.2021 at 11:13

This is way too long for its own good

I believe The Kathaarian Life Code was a bit too long, but the rest seemed long enough.
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15.08.2021 - 04:44
Rating: 8
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Roman Doez on 12.08.2021 at 11:13

This is way too long for its own good

What would you have shortened?
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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15.08.2021 - 13:21
Rating: 6
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by Troy Killjoy on 15.08.2021 at 04:44

What would you have shortened?

I feel like Kathaarian Life Code, In The Shadows Of The Horns, Where Cold Winds Blow and The Pagan Winter all could do with removing at least a minute or two, I feel like they drag on for much too long
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04.03.2022 - 09:50
Vombatus
Potorro
This turned 30 years last week. Never gets old.
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