Following swiftly on from the Fist in the Face of God boxset covering the band’s early black metal period, Darkthrone return with a new opus said to feature “high calibre old metal.”
“Prehistoric is a loose term,” Fenriz commented. “I just figure it’s our vibe, our take on things, and it’s more a statement that we use old style to create something new.”
Title track ‘Pre-Historic Metal’ is out now as a single, with a video created by Matthew Vickerstaff that you can watch below.
A continuation of 2024’s It Beckons Us All, Pre-Historic Metal is the next chapter in Darkthrone‘s unyielding saga, a vast odyssey through the sonic landscapes of thrash, black, heavy and doom metal.
Summarising what the album represents, Fenriz said: “It means that we are metal. With very loud guitars. ‘Frightfully barbaric but not without finesse,’ I call it. We collaborated in the studio more than ever, who’s playing what is still in a purple haze, but last but not least it was a sort of hardening of the arteries, we decided to tighten the tourniquet and do 8 effective songs brimming with riffs instead of the airy plodding we so much enjoy usually.”
Recorded at Chaka Khan Studios, Oslo, with production by Ole Øvstedal, Silje Høgevold and Mads Luis, Pre-Historic Metal was mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door and Maor Appelbaum Mastering. It features the tracks ‘They Found One of My Graves’, ‘Pre-Historic Metal’, ‘Siberian Thaw’, ‘Deeply Rooted’, ‘The Dry Wells of Hell’, ‘So I Marched to the Sunken Empire’, ‘Eat Eat Eat Your Pride’ and ‘Eon 4’.
Title track ‘Pre-Historic Metal ‘ is out now as a single that you can stream/download here alongside a video created by Matthew Vickerstaff that you can check out here art RAMzine.
