A Blaze in the Northern Sky

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, however he is not credited anywhere on the album.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 thus.
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