Warthur
Darkthrone recorded this one very, very soon after Transilvanian Hunger, and at the height of the controversy surrounding the whole "Norsk Arisk Black Metal"/"thoroughly Jewish behaviour" incident. Crassly, the lyrics this time around include a few references to Jews, though this is mainly in connection with Christianity (referring to Christ as a Jew, referring to Jews and Christians as fellow monotheists, etc.); still, the flirting with the sort of lyrical concepts which would inform the NSBM scene may be off-putting to some listeners, and so should probably be mentioned. (For my part, I'm willing to believe that Darkthrone genuinely didn't believe all this stuff and were being shocking for the sake of being shocking, though they chose a particularly juvenile and stupid way of doing it.)
Musically speaking, the material on here is good but a bit all over the place. Some tracks are in the pure black metal vein of the preceding album, whilst others see the slower, doomier riffs of A Blaze In the Northern Sky and Under a Funeral Moon creeping their way back in. There's a sense that Darkthrone are looking around and wondering which direction to take their music in next, with the result that whilst the album is very enjoyable it doesn't quite move into the top tier of Darkthrone discs.