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AHAHA | This IS one of the finest albums of all time, too a huge extent it defines exactly WHAT norwegian Black metal is and was. No self respecting Blackened soul should leave home without it. Review by: carcass_alex A blaze in the northers sky is horrible good. Its grim, pure, cold, true norwegian blackmetal!! Review by: blackstar666 foul, cold, evil and fucking fuzzy. as heavy as fuck could be a doom record but this is how black metal should sound, cradle of filth my ass this is the real stuff Review by: unicron when Im listning to this album here in my house in the extremely hot Brazil I can bearly here the cold winds throught my window..........and the moon reflacted in the white snow........ is unholy, extreme, winter, true black metal Review by: Sad Spirit This is an wonderful album! buy or die! Great raw riffs! This is true Black metal! Great vocals from Fenriz! This piece of BM Will truly Amaze in the northern sky! Review by: tompa88 True Norwegian black metal that only Fenriz and his Darkthrone members could have made. One of the greatest black metal release EVER, this grim and cold piece of misanthropy is a must. A blaze in the northern sky is pure black metal in his truest form. Review by: arckangell Ugly distorted trebly guitars, garage-sound drum production, chaotic solos, and hateful tormented vocals can all be found on Darkthrone's classic A Blaze In The Northern Sky. In my not so very humble opinion, I believe this is (and was) the greatest album Darkthrone ever put forth, bar the Burzum trance-drone-clone Transilvanian Hunger (although I must say that I enjoy the material on that album quite a bit). Why? There is nothing pretty on here, just pure unadulterated chaos and hate, as well as supremely structured compositions. The album is mostly mid-tempo, but thanks to their skills, Darkthrone makes it sound as powerful and as aggressive as anything else. I was also amused with the approach these guys took when recording the album: not only is the garage sound a fist in the face of the glossy productions of Sunlight Studios (what a stupid name...some nitwit dunce of a nincompoop must have had an over-abundance of endorphins when they decided on that misnomer), but it sounds as though the album is a crude jam session, with all sorts of weird - albeit well calculated - drum/guitar fills, as well as the amusing "random" guitar outros that finish off each song. The Pagan Winter has always been a personal favourite of mine, simply for its coldness and extremely abrasive, raw, and downright ugly guitar tone. Where Cold Winds Blow is a nice, fast, bewildering song to blast (no pun intended) during a raging Winter storm, and Kathaarian Life Code is a 10 and a half minute epic that will get you headbanging no matter where you are! This album's dedicated to you, Odious, er, Ordure, eurhmm, I mean Odium. ETERNAL FUCKING WINTER!!! Review by: Ankou They are truly a blaze in the northern sky... Just lock yourself in a dark room... close your eyes... and imagine the most freezing landscape or a cold, wet, scary dark cave were you are locked to death... This and more is all to expect when you listen to this masterpiece. Cold Riffing, minimal drums and vokills made of razorblades!! Never rape a nun without it!!! Review by: WeaklingAvenger THE BEST OF BLACK METAL. Review by: darklord666 DARKTHRONE - A BLAZE IN THE NORTHERN SKY Darkthrone delivered raw, ugly and atmospheric black metal with their controversial release "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" in 1992. Dissonant chords and riffs (cause: mistuned guitars) with violent and utterly disgusting growls make this album one of the best releases for the early 90s era. Songs like "Kathaarian Life Code", "Paragon Belial" and "The Pagan Winter" make this album worth to listen many times. Guitarwork is at times rather ridiculous when the strumming is performed in trials instead of four hits in a measure, and sounds very incompetent. But Fenriz's unique trial blastbeating is at times very enjoyable, his drumming is very original. At large, this CD is a good example from True Norwegian Black Metal. Great music drowned in great lyrics by Fenriz. Get this if possible. You won't regret it. 8 out of 10 Review by: Punisher This album is one of the greatest norwegian black metal album ever. This album was dedicated to the kings of black/death metal; Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth of the true Mayhem. Review by: ManiacKvamme true unholy grim norwergian black metal- sth. to add???? Review by: jarek Great sound, very evil and a little bit old "Bathory"-like. That's the way Black Metal has to be! Darkthrone's (the worlds?) first REAL (!!!) Black-Metal-Album! Forget Venom, Bathory and Mayhem (the even earlier BM-Bands) and listen to the REAL gods of Black Metal! Darkthrone rules!!!!!!!!! Review by: warhellhammer Only a few words to say: This is the greatest black metal album ever... and the greatest Darkthrone album also... This is Darkthrone in the essence.... Review by: Vampyric one of the most important BM Albums, but it isnt a 10 point album, Darkthrone is the greatest BM Band on the planet but this album too short! 9 of 10 Review by: Nattefrost Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky. This is from the best albums Darkthrone ever did. and it's the first Black metal performance for them, it's true and evil with frost sound. I really love it. it's from the masterpieces in the whole black metal scene. i can feel the cold winds while am listening to this. it's very essential album for all true black metal fans, it requires a black soul to understand what's Darkthrone are talkin about in this. I give this 11/10. Review by: Hellmaster A cold grim and very dark album. Nothing for Cradle of Money and Dimmu Boring poser fans but all true BM maniacs should have this masterpiece of sinister art. The lyrics are the best fenriz has ever written. Real mystic.Get it you won´t regret it. Review by: sleipnir First to begin with: This is one of the most legendary so called "True Norwegian" Black Metal albums. After first releasing a Death Metal album called Soulside Journey Darkthrone took a good step in the right direction! The album begins with Kathaarian Life Code which is a good opening song with still some death metal riffs (as almost all the other songs. In the Shadow of the Horns still is one of the best Darkthrone songs ever written in my opinion. Paragon Belial and Where Cold Winds Blow are also good, descent Black Metal songs altough they are not so strong as the first and the last two songs. A Blaze in the Northern Sky and The Pagan Winter are also two of the better "old school" Black Metal songs in the scene. This is just one of the best "old school" black metal albums ever. This one was never topped in my eyes untill they released Sardonic Wrath (2004). which sounds a bit different but is in many ways as good as (and some songs even better than this) album. 8.5 / 10 Review by: khold666isgreat this one is xtreme celtic frost with some "darkthrone" changes. HAILS to Zephyrous \m/ Review by: rm.00 BM masterpiece. As a teenager I was possesed by these sounds. Those days even all make-up thing didn't look radiculous to me. Six pagan and violent-natured nighthymns of tormented mind. I didn't see this such satanic as later issues. Review by: manos The best Darkthrone album period, not in terms of grimness - but simply because it have the best songs, both in terms of songwriting/architecture and sounds. Not as evil perhaps as the following 3 albums they released afterwards but "In the Shadow of the Horns" is my favorite DT track. The intro/outro of the album is also interesting - like the summoning of some sumerian demon with extremely satanic atmosphere (as one would expect from Darkthrone). The only DT album i'd give a solid 10/10. Review by: shanewick hard to say something in front of such a monument to black metal...kathaarian life code, alone, could pulverize the whole discography of thousands weak/fake/teen-frustrated so-called black metal bands.... the golden age of darkthrone begins with this one STOP TALKING, START KNEELING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review by: o Fucking grim.Kathaarian lifecode,in the shadow of the horns,paragon belial and the pagan winter are pure misanthropic masterpieces... 8.5/10 Review by: -Vomïtzodïak- After Mayhem's "De Misteriis Doom Sathanas" the legendariest album of the Norvegian BM scene.. Slow, but fuckin fabelous.. sorry for my English, I am from Croatia.. Review by: diabolis_methodeia This is the LP that opened my eyes to not only DT, but to black metal in general. The album as a whole is nigh unbeatable--the opening one/two punch of "Kathaarian Life Code" making way for everybody's fave "In the Shadow of the Horns" is one of DT's best moments on celluloid IMHO. Maybe not as "dark and evil" as the next couple of platters, but it still possesses that trance-inducing quality that DT were masters of in this period. "Paragon Belial" kicks the ass also. Review by: snapkick This Darkthrone's album is the alpha omega of black metal. If you dont own it you're not a real black metal fan. Review by: syl2055 The first step by Darkthrone into black metal...As Fenriz basically said, ABIANS is a death metal album played in a black metal way. FUCKING GREAT! Kathariaan Life Code is nowadays one of Darkthrone's peaks ever. Review by: matti babe
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