Warthur
Marduk's Those of the Unlight finds the band having completed their metamorphosis into a black metal group and working in more or less that style, with a few twists of their own. The production is the usual treble-heavy approach taken by groups of the era, but they don't seem to be skimping on the production values to a Transylvanian Hunger-like extent: all the different instrumental parts and solos can be clearly distinguished and they never disintegrate into a wall of undifferentiated noise to the extent that other bands would.
Not quite in the spirit of black metal? Perhaps, but when the performances are this good I'm inclined to say it's a differing approach to the genre - a legitimising of instrumental prowess at a crucial point in the genre's development, paving the way for more technically-minded black metal groups than Marduk to strut their stuff in later years. That said, I do find that I don't get much out of this album on repeated listens, largely because other black metal releases - including by Marduk themselves - have taken these ideas further.