Name: A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Brand: Darkthrone

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Bonus disc: No

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VILELP28

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-01-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

801056702814

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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2019-12-06

801056702821

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Darkthrone

Genre US

Metal

Label US

Peaceville

A Heavy Metal band from Kolbotn, Norway, formed in 1987 (initially founded as Black Death in 1986).
Darkthrone started as a death metal group, but having released ‘Soulside Journey’ they decided to abandon the technical death metal style and transformed into a black metal band. The band’s sound has diversified over their career to include elements of traditional heavy metal, thrash, doom, death and speed metal, as well as crust punk. They have not played live since 1991 and since 1993 Darkthrone has been a duo consisting of Fenriz (Gylve Nagell) and Nocturno Culto (Ted Skjellum).
Similar Artists: Carpathian Forest, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Marduk, Emperor, Bathory, Satyricon,
1349,
Nattefrost,
Mayhem,
Taake,
Burzum,
Nargaroth,
Impaled Nazarene,
Urgehal,
Judas Iscariot,
Morbid,
Gehenna,
Abbath
and Isengard.

A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Darkthrone's second album, was originally issued in 1992 and was without question the blueprint release for the Black Metal scene. An album that defined the now ubiquitous phrase 'True Norwegian Black Metal', it was hailed on release as an album of true scene shifting greatness. The album saw a whole new blacker than black Darkthrone, new names, new sound and highly visual black and white artwork. Fenriz claimed 'This is the new Darkthrone, the old Darkthrone is dead'. So great was the hunger and need for Darkthrone that it meant absolutely nothing to critics and fans alike that the band hardly ventured out to play live. On the contrary, this only added to the mystique of the band, and saw them, in the eyes of the fans as very much 'keeping it real'. This vinyl edition of the album is issued on 180gsm heavyweight vinyl and features new liner notes written by Nocturno Culto especially for this release.

A Blaze In The Northern Sky

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