ABITNS is 29 years old today apparently, older than myself. Fantastic album, it was my introduction to Darkthrone and one of my early black metal favourites alongside Nightside.
I distinctly remember Fenriz describing it as half a black metal album and half a death metal album with the songs tuned up to standard, which is interesting. Speaks to their deliberate transition in style to be part of that scene.

Great album, savage riffs, will be listening today.

UAFM is my favourite of the early stuff but Blaze is a ripper too. Might have to have a little Darktrone binge  8)

Blaze was my introduction to Darkthrone too and soon after I heard it I went out and bought the other 2 "unholy trinity" albums.  Darkthrone are one of the bands who have the black metal style I love. Incredible riffs, atmospheric production, great drumming and each track never outstays its welcome.

I'd rank the unholy trinity as 1. TVH 2. UAFM 3. ABINS

I don't listen to a whole lot of BM these days, but when getting into in my early days of heavy metal dicovery, I bought Soulside Journey and ABITNS together without having ever heard a note of Darkthrone's music. Later on when learning more about the emergence of that whole scene and sound, only then did it make sense to me that those two albums could have come from the same band one after the other.

#4 February 26, 2021, 05:30:56 PM Last Edit: February 26, 2021, 10:25:22 PM by vinterland
Still have the cassette and have yet to acquire the CD. For some reason Panzerfaust and Total Death are the albums I'd reach for ahead of the Unholy Trinity. I absolutely get the significance of Ablaze and how its release helped to usher in the first wave of Norwegian black metal but I find large segments of all three releases repetitive and meandering. In the Shadow of the Horns definitely the exception. It's been a while since I listened to any of the three so must stick them on and see if my opinion has since changed.

Great album and defo had an influence on early Belinus stuff when we were jamming.
I used listen to under a funeral moon more in the 90s but find myself listening to a blaze more  these days.

Quote from: vinterland on February 26, 2021, 05:30:56 PM
Still have the cassette and have yet to acquire the CD. For some reason Panzerfaust and Total Death are the albums I'd reach for ahead of the Unholy Trinity. I absolutely gets the significance of Ablaze and how its release helped to usher in the first wave of Norwegian black metal but I find large segments of all three releases repetitive and and meandering. In the Shadow of the Horns definitely the exception. It's been a while since I listened to any of the three so must stick them on and see if my opinion has since changed.

The repetitive element works for me, particularly on UAFM which is such a cold, detached and nihilistic sounding album.

Was blown away the first time I heard Kathariaan Life Code. Great album but I do prefer Under A Funeral Moon. Rarely find myself reaching for Transilvanian Hunger these days, I find it errs on the boring side of hypnotic.

Fuil Na Seanchoille capture this early Darkthrone sound perfectly.

Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 26, 2021, 06:57:13 PM
Quote from: vinterland on February 26, 2021, 05:30:56 PM
Still have the cassette and have yet to acquire the CD. For some reason Panzerfaust and Total Death are the albums I'd reach for ahead of the Unholy Trinity. I absolutely gets the significance of Ablaze and how its release helped to usher in the first wave of Norwegian black metal but I find large segments of all three releases repetitive and and meandering. In the Shadow of the Horns definitely the exception. It's been a while since I listened to any of the three so must stick them on and see if my opinion has since changed.

The repetitive element works for me, particularly on UAFM which is such a cold, detached and nihilistic sounding album.

Spot on. The production in uafm is so fucking good.

Quote from: Blizzard Beast on February 26, 2021, 06:52:08 PM
Great album and defo had an influence on early Belinus stuff when we were jamming.
I used listen to under a funeral moon more in the 90s but find myself listening to a blaze more  these days.


A fella I know used to throw a rake of BM albums onto C90s for me and as well as A Blaze.. , one of them had Belinus on it.

My go to darkthrone album is The Cult Is Alive, as much as I appreciate the older stuff for what it is and what it did

This was the first black metal album i ever heard,didnt know what to make of it at the time!.

It was chilling hearing this stuff on the metal show back then. I was too young to get it at the time but it made a strong impression.

#12 February 27, 2021, 07:52:20 AM Last Edit: February 27, 2021, 07:53:54 AM by Thorn
I could take or leave Blaze these days but Under A Funeral Moon is the very definition of True Norwegian Black Metal , the fucking sound of that thing.......utterly freezing cold evil.
Wearing jeans and leather, not crackerjack clothes

It's been quite some years since I spun this, wasn't dissapointed. I enjoyed it immesnsley, amplified via some herb I'd forgotten how good the 10 min + Kathaarian Life Code is!  Classic.

I had it on this morning and yeah it's a cool album but I still think UAFM is their finest.