This album was thought by many, at the time, to be the last
Darkthrone would ever produce. Not so. As it stands, this is an
exhaustive foray even further into the primitive black metal chaos
that they had been exploring over the past five albums, and is
actually considered by many to be their greatest work. As it
stands, this is like a survey of the influences of the years that
had come before, from Bathory to Celtic Frost, Hellhammer to Thorns
and Mayhem. Excellent, well-defined, exquisitely engineered paens
to blasphemy and the call of the dark, with lyrics written by some
of the most notable musicians in the Norwegian scene, including
Garm, Ihsahn, etc. Features members from Satyricon, Storm &
Isengard.