DARKTHRONE
New Album
OLD STAR
Is Out Now!
Release Animated Video For
DUKE OF GLOAT
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“more metal than ever” Fenriz
The legendary Norwegian longstanding partnership of Fenriz and Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum, return with their first studio album since 2016’s hugely popular ‘Arctic Thunder’, in the shape of ‘Old Star’ released today via Peaceville Records.
The band have also released an animated clip featuring a new fate from Old Star album cover artist Chadwick Saint John.
Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum comments “’Duke Of Gloat’ was the first I wrote for this album. I like my metal black, with a dose of heavy. Now with Old Star coming your way let me wish you all a sore neck!”
Fenriz, speaking to Loudwire about the song cryptically said “I feel that the words and titles are everyone’s property and they can analyse or feel it as they want. I will lead no way here! But when you see the lyrics you will know that it is probably not about a specific person (certainly not Newman from Seinfeld) but perhaps more of a fate or entity even.”
With a mastery and endless dedication to the art of the riff, the Norwegian legends cut through 6 new epic tracks, taking in the best of the old school of heavy & extreme metal plus a large dose of doom-laden riffing, & channelling it through the grime of the underground.
Old Star was recorded at the band’s Necrohell 2 Studios, with engineering and production duties carried out by vocalist/guitarist Nocturno Culto, complemented with a perfectly organic mix courtesy of Sanford Parker (Voivod) at Hypercube Studios, & mastered once more by Jack Control at Enormous Door.
The stellar cover artistry comes courtesy of Chadwick St John, titled “The Shepherd of the Deep”.
Over the course of 30 years, Norway’s Darkthrone has become a staple of the global black metal genre, forging a legacy as one of the most renowned and influential bands in its illustrious & often infamous history.
In the formative years following their 1987 inception, Darkthrone initially started with a strong concoction of thrash & then death/doom metal experimentation, with broader musical influences spanning from the 60s to the 80s, before the debut album Soulside Journey was unleashed in 1991.
Never ones to follow convention or stand still even then, the band soon embraced a much darker, more primitive form of expression with the now iconic second album A Blaze in the Northern Sky, & the rest became history.
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Listen to DUKE OF GLOAT here
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DUKE OF GLOAT
Written: Ted Skjellum, Gylve Fenris Nagell
Published by: Vile Music
Too old to wring the secret from the master
The well you encountered as a child
Merely acknowledging the beacon now
And now you are not well any longer
So this is the pact of the gloat
Double hell for all
All to repair and one to watch
No freedom in these domains
Hail the satan
Sinister duke of gloat
Wrap up the wretched fates
Intriguing eternal laughter
Encyclopedias
Of endless futile life toils
Shrapnel wounds
From shattered inner gargoyles
So this is the pact of the gloat
Brave beating hearts, But
All must repair while one beholds
No freedom in these domains
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OLD STAR IS AVAILABLE HERE NOW
HERE
Darkthrone are:
Fenriz – drums, songwriting, lyrics
Nocturno Culto – strings & vocals, songwriting
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OLD STAR TRACKLISTING
1. I Muffle Your Inner Choir [06:26]
2. The Hardship Of The Scots [07:36]
3. Old Star [04:28]
4. Alp Man [05:27]
5. Duke Of Gloat [06:49]
6. The Key Is Inside The Wall [07:24]
Available formats, each comes with handwritten lyrics in the booklet or insert:
CD
Black 180g vinyl LP
Ltd Edition 180g purple vinyl LP
Ltd Edition 180g green vinyl LP (exclusively available at the Peaceville store)
Ltd Edition 180g orange vinyl LP
Ltd Edition 7” vinyl box set – Old Star is presented on 3 coloured 7” (black, white, clear vinyl) (exclusively available at the Peaceville store)
Cassette (exclusively available at the Peaceville store)
Digital album (pre-orders receive “The Hardship Of The Scots” as an instant download)
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