Track Listing

1. Natassja in Eternal Sleep
2. Summer of the Diabolical Holocaust
3. Dance of Eternal Shadows
4. Unholy Black Metal
5. To Walk the Infernal Fields
6. Under a Funeral Moon
7. Inn I de Dype Skogers Favn
8. Crossing the Triangle of Flames

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44291 in Music
• Brand: Dig
• Released on: 2003-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of the Norwegian black metal act's 1993 album is pressed onto an enhanced disc featuring an exclusive interview with the band (Chapter 3), packaged in a digipak. 8 tracks. Peaceville.

Customer Reviews

Evil in your face
When I saw this cd at the record store, I thought I would try this out. That was about 4 years ago. Hell what a catch this one was. I was literally blown away. This band was my first intro to the evil and raw black metal. I've heard Marduk, and Dark Funeral and some other bands, but this band was really awesome and I couldn't get enough. I at least heard this cd 5 times the first day I bought it. My faves are Natassja In Eternal Sleep, Unholy Black Metal, and the title track. To me this is one of thier best but they do have others. Hail Darkthrone!!!!

Unholy Black Metal.
This album was made during Darkthrone's most productive-era (1992-1996). It's quite an experience, the typical raw garage sound is present here as with all their works. There's an organic sound in the background and some songs seem cut-off as if the tape ran out while they were still playing. Under A Funeral Moon gives the listener a dark, nihilistic atmosphere in which there is absence of all life or anything remotely positive. The shredding of the guitars along with the repetitive, simplistic, yet effective drumming of lyricist Fenriz make up the Darkthrone sound here.

They project an image of demons who can't play their instruments. Darkthrone added a granularity of organic noise to the music as well the room sound of the production and the cutting of tracks in random lightspeed fades, an aesthetic shift that now has been adopted by even the worst of the imitators. The style of music here would be best compared to Bathory around (1984-1987) and Mayhem (1988-1991). Under A Funeral Moon is one of the four essential Darkthrone albums, A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Transylvanian Hunger and Panzerfaust being the other three.

If you can't buy Burzum buy this.
I'm new to Darkthrone and found a new love in the black metal scene. These guys are so tounge in cheek. Fenriz and Nocturno Culto are hilarious in life. I have to say they are one of the most good humor bands in the black metal scene. Now on to the music. If you don't have the money to afford the imports of Burzum I say get this album instead. It has the same atmosphere as a Burzum album. It's just buzzing guitars with this so cold atmosphere. Very minimal but that's what I like it gives it a dark feeling. The guitars do get technical at times but not overly blazing like a death metal album which Fenriz explains in the interviews on the disc they were trying to move away from. The vocals are awesome. I love the echos with the raspy vocals. If you ever checked out Emperor's Wrath of the Tyrant (Enslaved split included) think more on that style. Varg does the same in Burzum (it's the same atmosphere especialy on Aske though Filosofem goes experimental ambient). This music brings to my mind a frosty forest.