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| 4.0 excellent | Brighter Than the Noonday | January 8th 13 |
"A Blaze In the Northern Sky" exemplifies much of black metal's finest and most bothersome elements, but creates a truly interesting and enjoyable record despite its minor setbacks. The inevitable repetition of any true black metal album is on display from track to track here, but never becomes too overwhelming due to the vast array of tempos and guitar work there is. Darkthrone shows off their muscles in this album and it ultimately pays off.
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| 5.0 classic | SWORD | September 3rd 11 |
I finally decided upon giving this one a five because not only is it the best black metal album out their in my opinion, but it is hard to imagine any black metal that surpasses this, besides maybe their own "Under a Funeral Moon." It is not the fastest in the world, but the riffs are grim, the vocals are cold as ice, the bass is mean, and the drums are venom.
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| 4.0 excellent | mkamrass | January 1st 13 |
For an introduction album into Black Metal, it was pretty enjoyable and sick, it definitely had its high points and low points. Some high points would be that the riffs and drums were awesome on certain songs, especially the first two songs. A low point would be that, yes, Black Metal bands are known for their long songs, which I could tell on this album. Now this could be taken negatively or positively, but on the topic of the long songs on this album, Darkthrone could have probably split the songs into more songs with how many tempo changes and sound changes there are in some individual songs. Overall, good Black Metal Album.
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| 0.0 | souleater | November 8th 12 |
one of the best black metal albums i have ever heard and is certainly a lot better than most music out there, having real passion clearly put into the writing of it
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| 4.0 excellent | Julbailey96 | March 13th 12 |
As a newcomer to Black Metal I can't say how it compares to a lot of other Black Metal albums, but as a longtime fan of Metal in general I can honestly say this is one of the most well put together and atmospheric CD's I've listened to in a long time.
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| 5.0 classic | ThrashK | April 15th 11 |
So mighty, evil, raw and extremely dark at the same time. Pure awesomeness.
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