Artist: DARKTHRONE
Album: FROSTLAND TAPES (3CD BOX)

Release date: 2008
Media type: CD

For the past 21 years Darkthrone have been leaders of the black metal scene. To coincide with this anniversary, Peaceville Records are releasing the 3CD set, Frostland Tapes on June 9th 2008. This is a fascinating trip into the earliest years of the band and the first official release ever to contain all 4 of Darkthrone’s demos in one place.

Frostland Tapes also includes a rare live recording from Denmark in 1990 (one of only a handful of live appearances that Darkthrone has ever made) and, perhaps most significantly, the previously unreleased version of the infamous 1991 Goatlord rehearsal session.

These songs were intended to feature on the proposed second album, before the band changed direction and the tapes were confined to the vaults. Vocals were subsequently added in the mid-nineties, but they are presented here as the recording sounded in 1991 – instrumental genius, showing the complexity and intricacy of a band with a great future ahead of them.

The set comes in a rigid digibook featuring an interview with the band, chronicling their early days, ambitions and inspirations.

TRACKLIST CD 1:

‘LAND OF FROST’ DEMO (1988)
1. Land of Frost
2. Winds of Triton
3. Forest of Darkness
4. Odyssey of Freedom
5. Day of the Dead
‘A NEW DIMENSION’ DEMO (1988)
6. Intro: Twilight Dimension
7. Snowfall
‘THULCANDRA’ DEMO (1989)
8. Eon
9. Thulcandra
10. Archipelago
Extra track : Soria Moria


TRACKLIST CD 2:

‘CROMLECH’ DEMO (1989)
1. The Watchtower
2. Accumulation of Generalization
3. Sempiternal Past/Presence View Sepulchrality
4. Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia

LIVE FROM DENMARK 1990
5. Cromlech?
6. Sunrise over Locus Mortis
?7. Soulside Journey
?8. Accumulation of Generalization
?9. Sempiternal Past/Presence View Sepulchrality?
10. Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia?
11. Neptune Towers


TRACKLIST CD 3:

GOATLORD – rare instrumental version (1991)
1. Rex
?2. Pure Demoniac Blessing
?3. (The) Grimness of which Shepherds Mourn
?4. Sadomasochistic Rites
?5. As Desertshadows
?6. In his Lovely Kingdom
?7. Black Daimon
?8. Toward(s) the Thornfields
?9. (Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin
?10. Green Cave Float
11. A Blaze In The Northern Sky
12. Fenriz drum solo


LINE-UP:

Fenriz (Gylve Nagell) – drums, vocals
Nocturno Culto (Ted Skjellum) – electric guitar, vocals
Zephyrous (Ivar Enger) – electric guitar
Anders Risberget – electric guitar (on Land of Frost only)
Dag Nilsen – bass guitar