Norwegian black metal icons Darkthrone’s 22nd album is “frightfully barbaric but not without finesse”, according to drummer Fenriz.
Norwegian black metal legends Darkthrone have announced that they'll be releasing their 22nd album, Pre-Historic Metal, on May 8, and shared the title-track.
With a cover featuring drummer Fenriz going metal with a gardening fork, and arriving as the band celebrate their 40th year, they promise a primitive, barbaric record.
“Prehistoric is a loose term,” asserts Fenriz. “I just figure it’s our vibe, our take on things and it’s more a statement that we use old style to create something new.
“It means that we are metal. With very loud guitars. ‘Frightfully barbaric but not without finesse’, I call it. We collaborated in the studio more than ever, who's playing what is still in a purple haze, but last but not least it was a sort of hardening of the arteries. We decided to tighten the tourniquet and do eight effective songs brimming with riffs instead of the airy plodding we so much enjoy usually.”
Check out what he means in the title-track!
And see the Pre-Historic Metal tracklisting:
1. They Found One Of My Graves
2. Pre-Historic Metal
3. Siberian Thaw
4. Deeply Rooted
5. The Dry Wells Of Hell
6. So I Marched To The Sunken Empire
7. Eat Eat Eat Your Pride
8. Eon 4
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