Darkthrone "It Beckons Us All" Album Review (Should be call this blackened doom?)
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Today I am going to review the new album It Beckons Us All by the black metal band Darkthrone. This is their 21st studio album and third one I've reviewed, following Eternal Hails in 2021 and Astral Fortress in 2022. Over their long career, Darkthrone has gone through many stylistic changes, moving from old school black metal into crust punk and now what I would call a blend of black metal and doom metal.
The 43-minute album contains 7 tracks mostly in the 4-7 minute range, plus one 10-minute epic closer. The lyrics are metaphorical and open to interpretation. The opening track "Howling Primitive Colonies" has a psychedelic atmosphere mixed with traditional slow black metal riffs and drumming. "Eon 3" reminds me of old Black Sabbath with its galloping riffs combined with black metal elements. Halfway through, it slows down into a funeral doom style.
"Black Dawn Affiliation" has more of an accessible "black 'n' roll" or crust punk sound that could work driving on the highway. The instrumental "and in that moment I knew the answer" blends atmospheric guitar passages with black and doom metal sections. "The Bird People of Nordland" seems to be about an ancient indigenous population, employing a range of styles including psychedelic tremolo picking.
While short at 4 minutes, "The Heavy Hand" is incredibly slow and heavy doom/black metal. The 10-minute closing epic "The Lone Pines of the Lost Planet" starts with an unusual clean guitar intro before moving into more familiar Black Sabbath-inspired riffs mixed with tremolo picking and a lonesome psychedelic midsection.
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That's awesome I knew they were thinking of releasing an album I'm looking forward to it
This is a great album mate 🤘💯💯💯
Yes I agree
Their last several albums have basically sounded like love letters to their influences. Fenriz has always been pretty outspoken about his love for Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and early Slayer. He also loves a lot of the hard rock and metal from the 70s and like a lot of the early Norwegian bands, he is fond of electronic music. We may never get another unholy trinity of Darkthrone BM albums, but I'd rather hear what he's passionate about making now than ten more old-school sounding Darkthrone albums because that's what the genre or the fans expect. The first five albums were a synthesis of the music he knew and loved regurgitated out as something new. The original spirit of the early days has been gone for a long time. There are a thousand bands (probably more actually) trying to recreate the sound of De Mysteriis, A Blaze in the Nothern Sky, and Aske. Some of them sound amazingly close, but the dangerous spirit but that guided the foundation builders isn't there. Those early masterpieces were lightning in a bottle. There is no way to get that back.
Yes I enjoyed the last three albums from him. I'm new to the genre so it's pretty much all new to me anyway.
@jcrockandmetalreviews @jcrockandmetalreviews It was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure that I got into black metal shortly after Varg killed Euronymous. After that, everything fractured in different directions. The two main figureheads were no longer around, and the so-called "Black Circle" had already lost touch with one another because there was no gathering place after Helvete closed. A lot of the music later on was amazing. It never had the vibe of the early stuff, I love Emperor, and the music they made, but it's a long ways removed from the raw sound of the big three of early Norwegian Black Metal. It's like the old notion about Black Sabbath inventing metal, but Judas Priest perfected it. You should give Isengard a listen if you haven't already. It's one of Fenriz's other projects. A lot ofit is is similar to the last few Darkthrone albums. He even hits a few King Diamond screams and pulls it off. He did a doom metal album with Nattefrost called Red Planet. The first three tracks are even more lofi/raw doom metal.
Nice review John! I didn't know Darkthrone had a new album out, another one!! I'm pretty new to this band, really liking their early albums. The debut is more or less Death Metal and its great! I don't know their later stuff apart from its hit and miss. I might try out their new one, not sure. They have so many albums its ridiculous! 😂🤘🏻
Yes this band has been putting out a lot of albums over the years I've only listened to the last three of them it's more of the Doom metal with black metal style.
@jcrockandmetalreviews Yep, they've shown no signs of wanting to slow down recently! Ahh ok that's fair enough man, yeah I haven't listened to their later stuff yet. I heard they kinda got less Black Metal, its interesting you said it sounded more like Black Sabbath in areas. You should definitely try their debut Soulside journey, it's like Obituary and Death put together. I think you'd enjoy it 😁🤘🏻
I’m not really into black metal but this album is solid!
I'm not into black metal either but this band is an exception for me I really like it
Black and white video nice
I think I did the last one in black and white as well
Beckon the calll
Beckon the call!
- Phil Anselmo
That's funny I never made that connection
nice video
Thanks
This band's music became boring and predictable many years ago,
this is a typical example clipping of coupons from history,
on path of least resistance
no matter what and how, it will sell anyway because we are iconic
Fenris will snot in the microphone and a million people will buy it
because of the logo
If they had stopped recording at the right moment, they would have become a cult (like Beherit)
instead, we have low-quality mass production like in a typical Chinese supermarket
Thanks for your input.
Your opinion is quite the truth. But truth is not in fashion today. Dark Throne has been average supermarket product band after the early 2000's. For me their last great recording was Total Death. Some stuff after it is still decent, but nowadays.... forget it. What is lacking in today's metal scene is judgement. Everything is accepted. Just like the school system. There is no bad or great students anymore, everyone is equal (albeit my opinion about school system = brainwashing mostly). Result of this is not good for our societies. New Darkthrone is not good metal, no matter how many Slaughter shirts Fenriz wore on photos. Ok, Fenriz, next time, raise your middle finger and do what the real fans want: TRANSILVANIAN HUNGER/UNDER A FUNERAL MOON 2. And maybe with some Slaughter infuences, dirty, raw and mean and only on theCD format. PS. Imagine an Transilvanian Hunger with Strappado guitar tone.
Darkthrone for me is:
- demos
- Soulside Journey
- Under a Funeral Moon
- Goatlord
- Transilvanian Hunger (little)
the end
everything else is eating own tail
Extremely generic powerchord riffs that have been done a million times. They're capable of doing much more.
I think they just looking to go in a different direction that's all