DARKTHRONE — Under A Funeral Moon (review)

DARKTHRONE — Under A Funeral Moon album cover Album · 1993 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
Darkthrone have described the album previous to this, A Blaze In the Northern Sky, as having a black metal attitude and death metal riffs. Perhaps that's why Under a Funeral Moon feels like such a transitional album, since it was recorded as a conscious attempt to change gears into a more purely black metal approach - complete with stripped-down production values for extra kvltness. The end results are rather mixed, but eventually won me over simply because of the unusual take on the subject matter.

Lyrically, alongside the Satanic aggression that's par for the course in black metal there's also healthy doses of depression, alcoholism, and a curious sort of eroticism - all three of which playing a prominent role in the opening track, Natassja In Eternal Sleep - and these curious themes creep their way into the music, with the lo-fi production often resulting in a subdued guitar sound which is in keeping with the depressive, contemplative ideas being played with. Still, Under a Funeral Moon suffers from being kind of on the fence - A Blaze In the Northern Sky was well-produced and showed technical proficiency, Transilvanian Hunger is one of the most "kvlt" black metal albums ever and has the production values of a train accident, whilst Under a Funeral moon sits between the two extremes, neither one nor the other. One for the devotees.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Human Rosin Melodic Metalcore
HATE BREEDER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Through The Hell Hardcore Punk
ENEMY 906
Buy this album from MMA partners
Lightmatter: Rebirth Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Eye Of Horus (Lightmatter EP Pt. 2) Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Galaxy888 (Lightmatter EP Pt. 1) Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Agremorta - Adrocitas (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
Agremorta - Ploratus Umbra (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
Agremorta - Vertex Membrana (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR - The Temple Of Curved Space (Official Track Stream)
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR
adg211288· 3 days ago
In Sulfur - The Gate (OFFICIAL VIDEO) 2022
IN SULFUR
Bosh66· 4 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed