Track Listing

1. Transilvanian Hunger
2. Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner
3. Skald Av Satans Sol
4. Slottet I Det Fjerne
5. Graven Takeheimens Saler
6. I en Hall Med Flesk Og Mj�d
7. As Flittermice as Satans Spys
8. En as I Dype Skogen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19492 in Music
• Brand: Dig
• Released on: 2003-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of the Norwegian black metal act's 1994 album is pressed onto an enhanced disc featuring an exclusive interview with the band (Chapter 4), packaged in a digipak. 8 tracks. Peaceville.

Customer Reviews

Minimalist Masterpiece
I approached this album somewhat skeptically. I had already purchased 'A Blaze in the Northern Sky' and 'Under a Funeral Moon' on the recommendations of others and found it hard for me to really get into those releases. That's not to say I find them bad albums, not at all, just difficult albums. Well after reading all of the mixed reviews for this album I finally decided to hear it for myself. And boy am I glad I did. Personally I didn't find the raw, underproduced sound of the album at all grating. In fact I feel that it is absolutely essential to the hazy atmosphere of the album and just as necessary a component as the music itself. The music itself as others have said is very simple and repepitive. The point of this album (I think) is not to dazzle the listener with technical multipart songs, but through the atmosphere and repepitive minimalistic quality of the music to bring the listener to a hypnotic state. I think many of the criticisms of this album are misplaced because they are expecting it to be something it has no intention of being or simply the reviewers cannot appreciate what it is the band is going for here. If you read any of my other reviews you know that I am far from a black metal elitist (I like Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir). In fact I find the whole black metal elistist mentality utterly absurd. Nevertheless this album stands on the weight of its own integrity aside from how troo, cvlt and grim it may be. Get it.

Grim Black Metal.
This is BM in its rawest and most evil form. If you were to enter the gates of hell I'm pretty sure that Transylvanian Hunger would be the music of choice. The production is intentionally bad and the songs are just plain raw and I mean raw. When I listen to Emperor, Mayhem and Burzum I can hear melodies and song structure but this album is straightforward and lacks any melodies. It's just Euronymous-style necro-riffing with Dead-like vokills and repitition of that.

The riffs you hear within the first 10 seconds are repeated throughout the entire song and the drum beats are carried on in the same manner. It's basically the blueprint for true raw black metal. Some songs end abruptly or seem cut-off to add to the dark atmosphere. Nocturno Culto has the best black metal voice since Dead and still carries that today. The first four songs were written by Fenriz and the next four songs were written by Count Grishnackh.

If there were anything darker than black metal this album would classify for that because this is absolutely primitive and sick music. Transylvanian Hunger could very well be the darkest black metal album of all time with Mayhem's "Live In Leipzig" a close second along with Dark Funeral's "Secret Of The Black Arts" and Burzum's "Aske". This is a true black metal classic album and 10 years on it still has no darker rival.

5 stars
I don't know what the idiot's below problem is by recommending this album to old mans child fans or cradle of clowns. It seems like he didn't take his medication this morning. T.H. album is not mellodic, not fancy, fashionable or any nonsense like that. It is pure in it's coldness and hate. This album will only appeal to few and that's the way Darkthrone likes it.