I had a guitar and a Peavey amp which really didn’t give me the sound I wanted for the stuff I wanted to play, which was chug-heavy thrash. Starting with The Demos (as later captured on Frostland Tapes ), it seems like you began with a real interest in capturing the sound of the first wave of black metal bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and early Bathory.Īs 1986 went by, I already had played a bit of drums here and there, but I didn’t have my own kit. In a candid interview, Fenriz discussed the various sonic phases Darkthrone has undergone, from starting off as an old-school death-doom band to playing the fearsome blackened thrash found on Old Star. The final product of that progression is this year’s Old Star, a throat-slashing wake-up call to anyone who would dare consider the band old hat. When Fenriz and Nocturno Culto dug themselves out of their individual holes and overcame their personal setbacks, Darkthrone entered a new era of productivity, during which the band drew heavily from everything Fenriz has always loved about first generation black metal, crust-punk, thrash, and old-school doom. While the band wanted to evolve, the musical departure they took during the next phase of their existence was as much a product of interpersonal problems between the two members as anything else. After the influential series of albums that has become known as the “unholy trinity” – 1992’s A Blaze In The Northern Sky, 1993’s Under A Funeral Moon, and 1994’s Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone seemingly underwent their next significant transformation. In the process, Darkthrone underwent various musical shifts.

Fenriz is on the left, Nocturno Culto on the right.

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