“Only total perverts will like it”, Fenriz promised about this album in it’s time; half of the lyrics were written by Varg Vikernes and the songs were nearer to BURZUM than ever in their minimalistic and hypnotic surrealism; repeating riffs of a couple of chords; hissing four-tracker production; drumming seemingly simpler than most machine beats, yet very precise and accurate to the ears of an attentive listener.

This is cold, more lifeless and cruel than the previous album “Under a Funeral Moon”, with less violence, more strength of determination and finality in rejection of normality. A peak for DARKTHRONE, a very ambient album. Despite countless cloning efforts few have succeeded in even sounding as True as this, let alone having the satanik force to bring across the “message”.

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