Sardonic Wrath

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Sardonic Wrath

Studio album by Darkthrone
Released	September 6, 2004
Recorded	Norway, 2004
Genre	Black metal
Length	34:22
Label	Moonfog Productions
Producer(s)	Darkthrone
Hate Them (2003)	Sardonic Wrath (2004)	The Cult is Alive (2006)

Sardonic Wrath is the eleventh album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone.

The vinyl release of the album was limited to 2000 copies. The whole album was released on the Internet in April, 2004 which was extremely premature considering the September 6 release date. However, the final release of the album was considerably different from the Internet leak.

Oddly, the closing song, "Rawness Obsolete", is listed on many lyric sites as an instrumental. This can be attributed to the lack of any printed lyrics in the accompanying booklet, but it is quite strange considering some of the things Nocturno Culto can be easily heard to sing. The vocals barely begin more than twenty seconds into the song, in fact.

[edit] Track listing

"Order Of The Ominous" – 2:32
"Information Wants To Be Syndicated" – 3:44
"Sjakk Matt Jesu Krist" – 4:04
"Straightening Sharks In Heaven" – 3:27
"Alle Gegen Alle" – 3:21
"Man Tenker Sitt" – 3:05
"Sacrificing To The God Of Doubt" – 4:34
"Hate Is The Law" – 3:22
"Rawness Obsolete" – 6:14
"Silent Majority" – 3:56

[edit] Miscellanea

The title of the album seems to have been derived from Earth's Last Picture, a set of lyrics Garm wrote for Darkthrone off their Total Death album ("Hark! as lands tremble, and empires fall/Ye may hear us laugh with sardonic wrath")

Sardonic Wrath is also a term used in The Book of Satan in The Satanic Bible. ("I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!"[1:11])