DARKTHRONE — Soulside Journey (review)

DARKTHRONE — Soulside Journey album cover Album · 1991 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Darkthrone's debut album is their sole album as a death metal band, though the preceding demo releases were also in this style, and the subsequent Goatlord demo caught them in the middle of metamorphosing from a death metal group to a lynchpin of the Norwegian black metal movement. The sound they achieve here is intriguing - for the most part, it's pretty standard death metal with some technical flourishes, but they succeed brilliantly at achieving a strange, cold atmosphere - one perfectly captured by the techno-esoteric cover art.

Soulside Journey is strong evidence that had they remained a death metal group, Darkthrone would still be well-respectived figures within the extreme metal scene - but personally, I'm glad that they've shown this willingness over their career to evolve their sound and shift genres as the mood takes them.
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Warthur wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Thanks! I will definitely make a point of checking Cadaver out in the future.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
While I´m not as happy about their "willingness over their career to evolve their sound and shift genres as the mood takes them." as I´m a giant death metal head and I would much rather have heard them continue down this path, I agree with you that this is a brilliant example of early nineties Scandinavian death metal. While the Swedish scene is the most famous one, I think the few Norwegian acts that were successful (or at least semi-successful) had a more unique sound than the vast majoriy of their Swedish brothers. Cadaver is another highly recommendable Norwegian act from those days.

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