We decided to tighten the tourniquet and do 8 effective songs brimming with riffs instead of the airy plodding we so much ...

Four decades after the band’s creation, Darkthrone are releasing a new album on May 8 titled Pre-Historic Metal. Yes, Fenriz ...

The Norwegian black metal icons' 22nd album is "Frightfully barbaric but not without finesse", according to drummer Fenriz ...

Darkthrone are one of black metal's most defining yet atypical acts. They don't wear corpse paint... well, aside from a couple highly influential early '90s album covers. They never got involved in ...

Fenriz compared the song to a couple other acts in a lengthy statement, which reads, There really isn’t just ONE song that can represent this album, "The Hardship of the Scots" was my song and ...

Darkthrone played their final show at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway on April 6, 1996. The band has since put out roughly a dozen records since then but absolutely refuses to play live. Or ...

In the realm of “True Norwegian Black Metal,” Darkthrone remains among the most influential groups. Their sophomore album, A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992), was revolutionary for its time as the ...

Darkthrone will release their next album It Beckons Us All on April 26 via Peaceville Records (pre-order). They’re prefacing it with just one single, “Black Dawn Affiliation,” which is out now. The ...

Darkthrone’s seventeenth studio album, Arctic Thunder, is a seamless, genre-hopping lexicon of death growls, doom dirges, and thrash runs as immediate as they are all-encompassing. Considering ...

The guitarist, bassist and vocalist for the world's most uncompromising underground metal duo walks through the making of their latest album, Eternal Hails..... When you purchase through links on our ...

In his novel The Third Realm, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about a fictional black metal band called Domen. The band never records and only rarely plays live – in secret, in the middle ...