DARK THRONE: Soulside Journey (1991). LP. Death Metal.
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Darkthrone will forever be known as a second-wave black metal band but in my opinion they were also interesting as a death metal band. Raking in sounds from such sources as Bathory, Death, Celtic Frost, and the nascent Swedish death metal scene, this record is a love letter to the entire death metal underground.
If there is a single album that truly captures the very spirit of darkness, it is this somewhat underrated and definitely underappreciated death metal debut by later, 2nd wave black metal pioneers Darkthrone. Whether it was the dark and gloomy climate of Norway, the continuous historical states of bondage and struggle for independence that likely influenced the country’s metal culture, or just the will of the stars, something was brewing in the late 80s as Fenriz, Nocturno, Zephyrous, and Dag Nilsen began developing the unique pre-cursor to blackened death metal that is “Soulside Journey”.
Everything on here just breathes metal eclecticism, from the fast paced Slayer/Kreator inspired thrashing lead breaks to the dissonant, quasi-epic doom metal riffs that wander in and out of the majority of these songs. You’d swear that Black Sabbath and Death teamed up to perform the amazing mishmash of progressive death/thrash and traditional doom that is “Grave With A View”, or that the former got together with Iron Maiden and Sodom to nail together the bass happy doom/thrasher “Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocin”. The bass intro of the latter, in particular, is one of the most unique superimpositions of Steve Harris’ approach to patterned bass work on the more neo-tonal death metal style.
dimension: 10 track album
label: Peaceville
extras, comments: this is not the remastered/ reissued 2003 version, but the ORIGINAL RELEASE from 1991! Perfect Condition. With lyrics.
style: Death Metal.
Side A:
- Cromlech
- Sunrise Over Locus Mortis
- Soulside Journey
- Accumulation of Generalization.
- Neptune Towers
Side B:
- Sempiternal Sepulchrality
- Grave with a view
- Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia
- For the Silent Whispers
- The Watchtower
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