Between their first album and this one DARKTHRONE got influenced by Euronymous and MAYHEM, left the death metal album ”Goatlord” on hold and decided to record the sickest and rawest black metal album ever, a fully religiously satanistic fist in the face of the sport clothes wearing, life-affirming and humane death metal audience. Musical inspiration here is drawn from BATHORY, HELLHAMMER, BATHORY, CELTIC FROST and BATHORY, in that order. The lower frequencies have been minimized in the production in order to get across the garage noisiness, the band plays off-tempo on purpose and to maximize aggression and chaos. Scene-professors of today argue about whether this of MAYHEM’s ”Live in Leipzig” is the first True Norwegian Black Metal LP.

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