Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a tense, beautiful, lo-fi landmark from the second ...

One of the most elusive, iconic and musically knowledgeable pioneers of the second wave of black metal, Darkthrone multi-instrumentalist Gylve Fenris Nagell (better known as just Fenriz) has stormed ...

When one thinks of black metal OGs Darkthrone, most likely, the image of a gangly guy with a candelabra comes to mind, and with it, black metal’s trappings and faults. But, like true originators, the ...

Darkthrone originally recorded their would-be second album Goatlord between Soulside Journey and A Blaze In The Northern Sky. The album was more death metal than black metal, and was ultimately ...

It’s probably no exaggeration that “Nocturno Culto,” Ted Skjellum and Darkthrone’s more loquacious half — “Fenriz,” Gylve Fenris Nagell — are The Beatles of True Black Metal. Yet as they’ve aged, they ...

Fenriz compared the song to a couple other acts in a lengthy statement, which reads, There really isn’t just ONE song that can represent this album, "The Hardship of the Scots" was my song and ...

Black metal’s nihilistic philosophies and destructive tendencies basically cursed its practitioners with brief and tormented careers – particularly among the Norwegian bands arising in the early 1990s ...

Rare live performances gallery and interviews about the rereleases of Soulside Journey A Blaze in the Northern Sky Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger Tracks 12 recorded live at television ...