Artist: DARKTHRONE
Album: TRANSILVANIAN HUNGER REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1994/ 2003
Media type: CD

Transilvanian Hunger is the fourth album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. Released in 1994, it was the band's first album to be recorded with just two members, Nocturno Culto (guitars and vocals) and Fenriz (drums). Their previous guitarist, Zephyrous, had left after recording their previous album, Under a Funeral Moon. The band would remain a duo from this point onwards. However they claim that this record is somewhat atypical for Darkthrone, since it is much faster, more melodic, and it was made with a very "raw" or "low fidelity" recording style.

Some for four of the album's songs were written by the infamous Norwegian black metal musician Varg Vikernes, who was imprisoned in 1993 for the murder of Oystein "Euronymous" Aarseth (of the band Mayhem) and arson of several churches. Darkthrone's next album, Panzerfaust, also features some of his lyrics.

All lyrics are in Norwegian. The back cover of the album states, "Darkthrone if for all the evil in man." All Music Guide says that the album, "boasts plenty of notoriety in the metal underground," and that is has been a great influence on many black metal bands.

TRACKLIST:

"Transilvanian Hunger" – 6:10
"Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner" (Over Mountains and Through Thorns) – 2:29
"Skald Av Satans Sol" (Scald of Satan's Sun) – 4:29
"Slottet I Det Fjerne" (Castle in the Distance) – 4:45
"Graven Tеkeheimens Saler" (Tombs in the Misty Halls) – 4:59
"I En Hall Med Flesk Og Mjod" (In a Hall With Meat and Mead) – 5:13
"As Flittermice As Satan's Spies" – 5:56
"En Еs I Dype Skogen" (A Hill in the Deep Woods) – 5:03

* Title translations are unofficial.

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LINE-UP:

Fenriz – drums
Nocturno Culto – electric guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Varg Vikernes – lyrics on tracks 5,6,7 and 8