Consuming the Tangible

It’s 6:00am. I’m on my second cup of Vietnamese coffee, strong and black. I returned from vacation about 12 hours earlier. Charleston, South Carolina was and is an absolutely gorgeous town, filled with rich history. But I needed to go deeper; I needed more than the centuries that beautiful city could offer…

I needed Pre-History.

Under my feet I could feel the firmament tremble, the tectonic plates shifting not from natural forces, but from the reawakening of that Leviathan of the Kvlt, those Purveyors of the Primitive…yes, Fenriz and Ted, aka the mighty Darkthrone, have returned to put my body back into its St. Vitus Dance of delight with the 100% subtlety removed Pre-Historic Metal. Let’s get into it.

Read the rest over at Nine Circles.

Having only reviewed this a few weeks ago, most of my thoughts on Pre-Historic Metal still stand. After a rough trip with Eternal Hails……. and a small but kind of forgettable course correction with Astral Fortress I feel like they came back with It Beckons Us All……. A lot of that goodwill remains here, with opener “They Found One of My Graves” a strong, thrashy opening. I do wish the title track was a little stronger, but the second half redeems it somewhat with the barrage of assorted riffs Ted throws out.

The rest though is solid god to my ears. You have the slow dirge of “Siberian Thaw” and the wicked “Deeply Rooted” are strong modern day Darkthrone, while “So I Marched to the Sunken Empire” shows them further expanding their reach.

In other words, Darkthrone continue to not give a single fuck, and I continue to be there for each and every one.