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DARKTHRONE Reveal New Track "Hate Cloak"

By Larry Petro, News Monkey
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 @ 10:56 AM


Taken From The Forthcoming Album Eternal Hails, Out June 25th

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Following the announcement that the new DARKTHRONE album, Eternal Hails, is to be released on June 25th, the band have premiered “Hate Cloak” – the first and only track to be revealed ahead of the album’s release. The 9 min 17 seconds, Fenriz penned, hallowed epic “Hate Cloak” is steeped in the majestic thunder of vintage heavy doom metal. Fenriz comments, “"Hate Cloak" is certainly the slowest song on the album, there are plenty of “fast" parts on Ted's songs, middle tempos and slow as well. The whole point of us having long songs is variation in tempos/pace, hence the epicness”

WATCH/LISTEN TO “HATE CLOAK” BELOW

The Norwegian black metal legends, show that within five tracks and 45 minutes on their 19th album, Eternal Hails, they remain defiantly and eternally DARKTHRONE.

Since forming in 1986 as Black Death in Kolboton, Norway, DARKTHRONE have been masters of their art. Dropping the death metal of 1991’s Soulside Journey debut album in favour of a more primitive, black metal sound on the following year’s A Blaze In The Northern Sky, they helped define black metal in the ‘90s through albums like 1993’s Under A Funeral Moon and its follow-up Transilvanian Hunger. Truly, though, DARKTHRONE remain unique, even in their own canon.

On Eternal Hails, the longer, doomier songs reflect drummer Fenriz’s love of doom, taking their time to make their point. For Fenriz, what he and co-conspirator Nocturno Culto have concocted stretches back even further than discovering black metal, to the sounds of the ‘70s and the more freewheeling sounds of bands playing with more expansive themes. This didn’t just make the songs longer, it made them an entirely different beast from the ground up.

“When I was a kid growing up with metal I kept looking for bands with long songs. BLACK SABBBATH had many, and CELTIC FROST’s Dawn Of Meggido had a long song, so I put that on in the record store and discovered another dimension of metal. CANDLEMASSEpicus Doomicus Metallicus had only long songs, so I think I bought that without even listening, and it was one of my best buys ever - an eternal inspiration for my entire career..”

“For us it has become a bit logical, hard to explain, but you get to build up for a different kind of listening,” says Nocturno Culto. “A three-minute song is nothing we think of at the moment. We like it this way. For now.”

Having recorded all albums since 2004 using their own Necrohell II studio – a portable 8-track recorder housed in an old bomb shelter, itself a replacement for the original Necrohell 4-track used for Transilvanian Hunger and Panzerfaust, until it became “too necro” and broke – for Eternal Hails the band went to Chaka Khan Studio in Oslo for the first time.

Though the material was almost all finished ahead of the session, something the new studio and new way of working did allow for on Eternal Hails, was the opportunity to experiment with ideas on the hoof.

In a world changing too fast for anything to stick, DARKTHRONE are both able to stay fresh, but also reassuringly reliable. And no matter where they record, what they do or what gear the use to do it – Fenriz actually ended up using a drum kit belonging to Carmine Appice when he was in Rod Stewart’s band this time around – this, it seems, will never and can never change. As Fenriz himself puts it, “No matter what happens we will still sound like us, it seems!”

ETERNAL HAILS - tracklisting

  • "His Master`s Voice"
  • "Hate Cloak"
  • "Wake of the Awakened"
  • "Voyage to a North Pole Adrift"
  • "Lost Arcane City of Uppakra"
Eternal Hails will be released on Peaceville on 25 June on the following formats with PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE HERE
(https://darkthrone.lnk.to/EternalHails )
  • Ltd edition deluxe box set containing - Exclusive purple coloured heavyweight vinyl / CD in alternate digisleeve format / cassette tape / 12 page booklet containing a biography surrounding the creation of the album & studio experience / 10" art print of David Hardy's Pluto & Charon painting / handwritten letter print from Fenriz
  • CD
  • Black 180g vinyl LP
  • Oxblood 180g coloured vinyl LP
  • Digital


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