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This is not a bad album though many respected sources claim that it's crap. Not true. Listen for yourself. Music is mostly athmospheric, death metal, better that lots of doings in this genre. Darkthrone can do no wrong... Review by: -hammerheart- "Soulside Journey" is in opposite to the other "Darkthrone"-outtakes the only Death-Metal-album (but with satanic textlines). This CD is in the old scandinavian Death Metal tradition and it sounds a bit like the old Entombed or Dismember releases, but even better. "Soulside Journey" is a real good album. But I think, if you intent to buy it, you should first listen to it, because it's totally different to the other Darkthrone releases, which are Black Metal and no Death Metal. Review by: warhellhammer to this is one of the best death metal albuns ever...!!! from one of the best black metal bands ever ehehehe it really reminds bands like dismenber....but is far beyond better........ so if you ( like me) like black and like death metal too this album is perfect for us hehe Review by: Sad Spirit DARKTHRONE - SOULSIDE JOURNEY Darkthrone. A name which over years has become one of the most gruesome and ancient-sounding bands in black metal. Their primitive sound in vein of old Celtic Frost contains very simplistic riffs and haunting atmosphere. As everybody might already know, the bloodbrothers Fenriz and Nocturno Culto are not about to display misanthropic and dominating black metal this time, but a 40-minute piece of classic death metal in vein of Excrement's "Scorched" and Marduk's "Dark Endless". The names are not exactly Fenriz and Nocturno Culto. Fenriz appears as "Hank Amarillo" (I wonder why he couldn't reveal his original name in here, which is Gylve Nagell) and Nocturno Culto is presented with his own name, Ted Skjellum. There are few good songs, my favorite ones are "Cromlech", "Neptune Towers" and "Sempiternal Sepulchrality". The production is amazingly good when compared to the later albums. Guitar solos are trash, just like I expected and the drumming is standard death/thrash metallish beats. So nothing out of ordinary. So far, this CD is average classic death metal release. Nothing particularly good, fits perfectly to Excrement -kind of death metal fans and Darkthrone purists, who want all their records. So all Darkthrone completists, grab this record - it has just been rereleased since as far as I know, the original pressing was sold out. 5,5 out of 10 Review by: Punisher This is not bad....but is not the black metal crap Fenriz did in "a Blaze from the norten sky" or in "Transilvanian Hunger". The Sound is closer to some Swedish Death Metal than the tipical silly troll-wanna-be voice. Better than the next 3 albums at list! Review by: Zamzack I'm a HUGE fan of early Entombed and Dismember, so I was really looking forward to this one. First up, the sound is totally Sunlight, which while not original, is certainly a joy to behold. Secondly, Fenriz plays up a storm, showing that he's a much more flexable drummer than the classic Darkthrone albums would have you believe. All good so far. The thing that keeps this a 6/10, it the fact that the songs are basically random collections of riffs, and so, completely unmemorable. I'm not being a smart ass; the band have admitted as much themselves, saying that they didn't care about song structures, only riffs. It's a pity, cos the ingredients are there, it's just that they've all been tossed into the mixing bowl at the same time. A chorus or a central theme for the riffs in each song would have made this unmissable. And what's with those tacky bass fills? Yech! The best was definately yet to come... Review by: Tom Satan You could think this was one long track. Every track is very much the same. The only thing that keeps me too this album is that the drums are great technicaly. This is a little too boring. I think its because i dont like the classical death metal. Rest of their albums are fucking good. Its a question about taste... This is for the death metal fans. 7/10 Review by: gustav_ Very good death metal here! I wander what happened if Fenriz and Nocturno didn't become make-up faced clowns and stayed plaing death. But they didn't so 'Soulside yourney' is Darkthrone's only album where the MUSIC was most important. Review by: manos Old Peaceville albums rule!!! Personally, I haven't spent much time with any Darkthrone album after this one. Still spinning this classic now 15 years later! Old school atmospheric death metal. Dark. "Sunrise Over Locus Mortis"...classic. Some compare it to old Entombed or other old Sunlight Studios albums. I would agree somewhat, but the song writing and atomspheres are more akin to early Paradise Lost & Autopsy than many other Swedish bands. Review by: frozen illusion the first darkthrone album...a death metal album...then they would have rejected this kind of genre and style but it remains one of the best scandinavian-school death metal album of all times. first three tracks fucking kill!!! lyrics already deep and full of dark nietzchean philosophy, the first step to one of the greatest literary works of the century...words for the new millenium. A masterpiece, but probably one of the worst darkthrone album, this is enough to outline their rank.... Review by: o This is the coronation of Darkthrone's early career. One of the greatest death metal album of all times, and with no doubt the best norwegian death metal album of all times. What about this album had it been Darkthrone a swedish band?.... The first album is an end, not a beginning, for this milestone band in metal/punk history! Review by: matti babe		Use the textarea below to write your review of this album. Please obey to these rules: - Write the review in ENGLISH! - Do not ask or offer mp3's - Reviews of 5 words or less are no reviews - Do not flame other reviewers. Use the forum for that If you do not follow these rules your review will NOT be added. Username: Password: (To get a username and password you have to register.)
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