Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness
This album was hyped as a “return to form” for Darkthrone. When I heard that, I wondered to myself, “Did they pull out their old Autopsy shirts and start worshipping Swedish Death Metal a-la Entombed’s Left Hand Path again?” Most people don’t remember Soulside Journey’s blatant Entombed worship, but I do. Hell, I still listen to that album! But this isn’t a return to it. This is just a continuation of the direction that they were headed with their last several releases. The production is better and the guitar tones are thicker than the old lo-fi Black Metal days of Under a Funeral Moon and A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The songs themselves are still in the same vein as the older stuff. If you played the new stuff and compared it to stuff from, say Transylvanian Hunger, you would generally find the same style of structures and patterns in the music. If you love Darkthrone, then you’ll love this album to no end. If you think Darkthrone sucks big fat donkey dicks, then this album won’t change your mind. At least they aren’t trying to be Nine Inch Nails or Marilyn Manson like so many other Norse bands these days!
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