Darkthrone - Plaguewielder
In these times when Black Metal is clearly dying of suffocation from a global plethora of bands all competing to sound the same, and longtime pioneers of the genre unsuccessfully trying to pave new paths using everything from Electronica masturbation to Ass Rock splicing. Somehow, Norway’s Darkthrone sounds as raw as ever by changing practically nothing. They can take the most simplistic hook and make it the coolest riff of all time, a continuance of the tactics employed by their previous album, and possibly finest moment ever, Ravishing Grimness. The most significant of changes for this band the last couple of years is the clear, solid production that was abandoned after their first album. It works wonders with the primal instinct this band has at making truly evil-sounding melodies. They actually give their music a personality; a misanthropic charisma that so many of today’s Black Metal bands lack. With Darkthrone it seems to come effortlessly. If Ravishing Grimness re-ignited that miscreant flame in your soul, Plaguewielder will keep those embers burning brighter than an 18th Century Norwegian church in the pale Scandinavian winter.
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