A Blaze in the Northern Sky

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A Blaze in the Northern Sky
A Blaze in the Northern Sky cover
Studio album by Darkthrone
Released February 1992
Recorded 1991
Genre Black metal
Blackened death metal
Length 42:05
Label Peaceville Records
Producer(s) Darkthrone
Professional reviews
Darkthrone chronology
Soulside Journey
(1990)		 A Blaze in the Northern Sky
(1992)		 Under a Funeral Moon
(1993)


A Blaze in the Northern Sky is the second album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. After this recording, Dag Nilsen left the band. He did stay on to record his bass tracks though.

It is notable as being Darkthrone's first black metal release. Their debut album, Soulside Journey, was a death metal release. However, A Blaze In The Northern Sky does have much more in common with death metal than their future albums.

In the multimedia edition of the CD (special editions of the album released by Peaceville, along with Soulside Journey, Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger), Fenriz says that the album was very rushed, in order to comply to contract clauses with Peaceville. Having had a very sudden stylistic shift from death metal to black metal, Blaze used a lot of death metal-esque guitar riffs, simply played in a black metal style. Theoretically, this album could be labelled as blackened death metal, but lacks the equal balance of death metal and black metal to be classified thusly.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Kathaarian Life Code" – 10:39
  2. "In The Shadow of the Horns" – 7:02
  3. "Paragon Belial" – 5:25
  4. "Where Cold Winds Blow" – 7:26
  5. "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" – 4:58
  6. "The Pagan Winter" – 6:35

[edit] Credits

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