Artist: DARKTHRONE
Album: DARK THRONES & BLACK FLAGS (CD)

Release date: 2008
EAN/UPS: 0801056764829
Media type: CD

Darkthrone return this autumn with their 14th album, a perfect fusion of blackened rock, metal and punk. ‘Dark Thrones & Black Flags’ is a continuation of the Darkthrone sound, style and uncompromising attitude witnessed on the acclaimed 2007 album ‘F.O.A.D’.

?‘Dark Thrones & Black Flags’ is equal parts Fenriz and Nocturno Culto. The duo share song-writing and vocal duties throughout the release (with some surprising results) and further perfect the art of ‘the riff’. A deceptive mastery of composition is also evident on possibly their strongest release of recent times – an album of stripped down, dirty metal.

?Recorded and produced by the band themselves at Necrohell II studios, Norway, ‘Dark Thrones & Black Flags’ is an exercise in pushing the conventions of the narrow perception of what should make black metal, becoming more timeless and faithful to its spirit than most could ever wish for in the process.

TRACKLIST:

The Winds They Called The Dungeon Shaker
Oath Minus
Hiking Metal Punks
Blacksmith Of The North
Norway In September
Grizzly Trade
Hanging Out In Haiger
Dark Thrones And Black Flags
Launchpad To Nothingness
Witch Ghetto