Astral Fortress, by Darkthrone

Astral Fortress

by Darkthrone

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slainester Why do you want to know? Favorite track: Caravan Of Broken Ghosts.

Lute FP They mighta been contemporaries, but all I can think of when listening is that this sounds like early Celtic Frost. And that is a very, very good thing.

nosr This is so fucking heavy, it makes me want to wear that stalagmite necklace. Favorite track: Stalagmite Necklace.

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1.	Caravan Of Broken Ghosts 07:53	buy track
2.	Impeccable Caverns Of Satan 05:34	buy track
3.	Stalagmite Necklace 05:22	buy track
4.	The Sea Beneath The Seas Of The Sea 10:10	buy track
5.	Kevorkian Times 04:27	buy track
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7.	Eon 2 04:40	buy track

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A NEW, STELLAR AND ECLECTIC JOURNEY OF OLD METAL IN THE DARKTHRONE ODYSSEY

From their formation back in 1986, to becoming one of Norways’s finest musical exports (with a number of highly revered black metal masterpieces released in the early 90’s helping to solidify their legacy), Darkthrone has continued to evolve and challenge in equal measure, throughout their illustrious recording career spanning over three decades. And now, the ever-productive duo of Nocturno and Fenriz continue their own metallic saga with a new selection of fine, vintage sounding headbanging classics in the making.

‘Astral Fortress’ is itself a swift follow-up to 2021’s ‘Eternal Hails’ opus, as a result of Darkthrone’s consistent and ongoing writing process, which has been in force for some years now. For Darkthrone does not sleep - it only waits.

Carried on the brisk wind of eager rock, with foundations in black, thrash, doom and heavy metal, ‘Astral Fortress’ is the latest album of stellar, eclectic old metal in the Darkthrone odyssey. With a seemingly endless dungeon full of heavy metal influences channelled through Darkthrone’s dynamic riff-machine, plus also with many increasing inspirations taken from their own past catalogue, Darkthrone has truly become its own beast within the metal world. Even though sprinkled with atmospheric touches such as synthesizers and mellotron on ‘Astral Fortress’ to great effect, the Darkthrone sound remains stripped down to the core; always primitive and organic.

‘Astral Fortress’ was recorded at Chaka Khan Studios in Oslo, the same location used for the ‘Eternal Hails’ album, with Ole Øvstedal and Silje Høgevold.

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released October 28, 2022

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Peaceville Records is a British independent metal-oriented record label founded in Dewsbury, England in 1987 - artists over the years include Katatonia, Darkthrone, Paradise Lost, Opeth, Cradle Of Filth, My Dying Bride and Anathema

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