Arctic Thunder

Pitchfork 7.2/10 Darkthrone’s seventeenth studio album, Arctic Thunder, is a seamless, genre-hopping lexicon of death growls, doom dirges, and thrash runs as immediate as they are all-encompassing.

Blabbermouth.net 8/10 DARKTHRONE, the champions of the second wave of black metal, has been at it for nearly 30 years. Following its classic death metal debut, "Soulside Journey", the Norwegian band forged an ominous, hateful and cold sonic style that was truly scary at the time, by conventional standards, anyway. And it...

Distorted Sound 5/10 Black metal legends Darkthrone return to the fray with another offering of classic black metal bruisings, find out what Tim Chisnall thinks of it here!

Metal Injection 8/10 There's no single song here capable of making one singlehandedly forget Underground Resistance or Circle the Wagons, but as a whole you'll probably find yourself returning to it more often.

Angry Metal Guy 2.5/5 A review of Arctic Thunder by Darkthrone, available October 14th via Peaceville Records.