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Limited box set with cd, black and blue corona vinyl lp, cassette and art prints

With a legacy of audial treasures now spanning more than 35 years and with the fountain of creativity ever flowing, Norway’s Darkthrone returned in 2024 with the album It Beckons Us All that venture through classic riffs and vintage sounding metal in the shape of the epic seven tracks on here. Seeing the longstanding duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto uniting once more, It Beckons Us All follows on the heels of 2022’s revered Astral Fortress album, with what could be considered an even more refined, challenging and diverse set of timeless metal anthems from the uncompromising trailblazers; from the melodic, to the sombre and atmospheric, to the blackened dirges emanating from Darkthrone’s highly distinguishable riffing, as well as a nod to influences such as Celtic Frost along the way. With an expansive catalogue consisting of a multitude of various genre classics, Darkthrone first arrived on the global stage with their atmospheric and technically accomplished death metal debut, Soulside Journey back in 1991, followed by the milestone in black metal that is A Blaze In The Northern Sky released only the following year, after the intended second album Goatlord was essentially scrapped to make way for something more primitive and paving the way for Darkthrone’s close association with the black metal genre over many years. And so, with an endlessly progressing (and even regressing) evolution which has seen the band successfully delving into many sub-genres of metal and punk, It Beckons Us All stands as one of the band’s most complete and vast works to date.

Track list:
1. Howling Primitive Colonies
2. Eon 3
3. Black Dawn Affiliation
4. And In That Moment I Knew The Answer
5. The Bird People Of Nordland
6. The Heavy Hand
7. The Lone Pines Of The Lost Planet