DARKTHRONE — Circle The Wagons (review)

DARKTHRONE — Circle The Wagons album cover Album · 2010 · Crust Punk Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Circle the Wagons finds Darkthrone positioning themselves solidly within the Motorhead-influenced strand of crust punk - complete with clean vocals. Consequently, black metal purists will probably be very disappointed with the album, but I rather like it; Fenriz and Nocturno Culto are clearly having a hell of a lot of fun here, the sort of fun which crept into some of the earlier Darkthrone black metal recordings (come on, Transilvanian Hunger had its tongue at least partly in cheek) and which drained away in their later black metal releases as the process of producing albums seemed to become a chore for them.

I'd much rather listen to Darkthrone playing something they're clearly excited by, even if it isn't what I usually expect from them, than to listen to them going through the motions as though somehow magically they're going to make a second Blaze In the Northern Sky (or whichever your favourite classic-era Darkthrone album is) by forcing themselves to play in a style they're no longer excited by.
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