Eternal Hails…. - the 2021 studio album of epic Black Metal from
Norwegian legends Darkthrone - contains five sprawling masterworks.
“Five heavy dinosaurs looking in wonder and bewilderment at the stars.” - Fenriz
Limited edition deluxe boxset containing:
- Exclusive purple coloured heavyweight vinyl
- CD in alternate digisleeve format
- cassette tape
- 12 page booklet containing a biography surrounding the creation of the album & studio experience
- 10" art print of David Hardy's Pluto & Charon painting.
- handwritten letter print from Fenriz
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With
the highly revered Norwegians remaining ever-dedicated to the art of
the riff after 35 years of existence, Darkthrone returns for album
number nineteen and a new dose of Metallic godliness. On the back of
2019’s triumphant Old Star opus, the duo of Nocturno Culto & Fenriz
present a 41 minute maelstrom of Epic Black Heavy Metal across five
sprawling compositions. Organic and dynamic, the album is an exploration
of the finest vintage Metal and the best of Doom, all delivered in the
unmistakable Darkthrone style (whilst also incorporating instruments
such as the Moog to further expand upon these soundscapes).
Eschewing
the process of using their own Necrohell II studios - which has served
the band so well over the last 15 years - and welcoming a change of
environment and the opportunity to experiment with new ideas, Eternal
Hails…… was recorded at Chaka Khan Studio in Oslo, and engineered by Ole
Ovstedal and Silje Høgevold, breathing new life into the sound while
retaining the essence of Darkthrone’s natural, raw feeling.
The
cover artwork features the piece Pluto and Charon (1972), from renowned
science fiction artist David A. Hardy; a hugely inspirational image for
both Fenriz and Nocturno Culto spanning several decades, and this also
stands as a symbolic link between the genre-bending styles apparent on
Darkthrone’s earliest works, to those same traits evident on Eternal
Hails….
Boxset.