{"id":5799,"date":"2019-05-31T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2019-05-31T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:42:18","slug":"darkthrone-release-new-album-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5799","title":{"rendered":"Darkthrone release new album today"},"content":{"rendered":"
FINALLY!!! THE DAY HAS ARRIVED AND HERE IT IS …..<\/strong>..<\/div>\n

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DARKTHRONE – OLD STAR<\/strong><\/div>\n
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New studio album out today\u00a0on Peaceville
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The Norwegian black metal legends mark their return with a sublime new slab of relentless riffing in the true spirit of the underground.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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\u201cmore metal than ever\u201d Fenriz<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
The legendary Norwegian longstanding partnership of Fenriz and Ted \u201cNocturno Culto\u201d Skjellum, return with their first studio album since 2016\u2019s hugely popular \u2018Arctic Thunder\u2019, in the shape of \u2018Old Star\u2019. 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, & channeling it through the grime of the underground.<\/div>\n
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Fenriz enthuses\u00a0\u00abOld star \u2013 again we are here with THE RIFFS! A while after our previous ARCTIC THUNDER album it became apparent that we would continue in that same style, BLACK OLD HEAVY METAL with slow thrash, classic doom, and slow death metal.<\/em><\/div>\n
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As many have focussed on the 70s sound over the last 20 years, the mix on our new album has ended up being more 80s than ever. The songs are more metal than ever! Ted’s songs have a lot of black metal in them, faster and slower but also doomier parts and recurring parts. My songs are more linear written, it\u2019s an ancient 80s underground trick, with breaks, all slow heavy or slow thrash, classic doom or slow death.\u00bb<\/em><\/div>\n
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He continues\u00a0“All in all it is our most 80s album so far and our most metal one to date with drum sound typical for the 80s USA\/German market and damned lyrics, which are all written by me. We feel that ‘OLD STAR’ is the big brother of ARCTIC THUNDER. More solid and with even better riffs.”<\/em><\/div>\n
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‘Old Star’<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was recorded at the band\u2019s 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 \u201cThe Shepherd of the Deep\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Over the course of 30 years, Norway\u2019s 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\u00a0Soulside Journey\u00a0<\/em>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\u00a0A Blaze in the Northern Sky<\/em>, & the rest became history.<\/div>\n
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OLD STAR<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will be released on the following formats\u00a0<\/strong>with each featuring handwritten lyrics in the booklet or insert:
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\nLtd Edition 7\u201d vinyl box set \u2013 Old Star is presented on 3 coloured 7\u201d (black, white, clear vinyl)\u00a0<\/em>
\nBlack 180g vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g purple vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g green vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g orange vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g red vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g gold vinyl LP
\nLtd Edition 180g white vinyl LP
\nCassette
\nDigital album<\/div>\n
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FINALLY!!! THE DAY HAS ARRIVED AND HERE IT IS …….   DARKTHRONE – OLD STAR order Here   New studio album out today\u00a0on Peaceville The Norwegian black metal legends mark their return with a sublime new slab of relentless riffing in the true spirit of the underground.   \u201cmore metal than ever\u201d Fenriz The legendary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2204,2216,2217,970],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-metal","tag-darkthrone","tag-old-star","tag-voivod","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}