Darkthrone announce new album ‘Eternal Hails’
DARKTHRONE have announced a new album!
Titled Eternal Hails, the upcoming album from the iconic Norwegian band is their staggering nineteenth studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s Old Star, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Peaceville Records.
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.
On the upcoming album, the longer, doomier songs reflect drummer Fenriz’s love of doom, taking their time to make their point. For Fenriz, what he and bandmate 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 theme.
“When I was a kid growing up with metal I kept looking for bands with long songs. BLACK SABBATH 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. CANDLEMASS’ Epicus 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.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. His Master’s Voice
2. Hate Cloak
3. Wake of the Awakened
4. Voyage to a North Pole Adrift
5. Lost Arcane City of Uppakra
Eternal Hails is set for release on June 25th via Peaceville Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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