Soulside Journey [ENHANCED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Darkthrone

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
• Label: Peaceville UK
• ASIN: B00009QRBM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #140,249 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cromlech

2. Sunrise Over Locus Mortis

3. Soulside Journey

4. Accumulation of Generalization

5. Neptune Towers

6. Sempiternal Sepulchrality

7. Grave With a View

8. Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia

9. Nor the Silent Whispers

10. Watchtower

11. Eon

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

2003 reissue of the Scandinavian dark metal act's 1990 album features 11 tracks plus an exclusive multimedia enhanced interview with the band (Chapter 1), packaged in a digipak. Peaceville.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classick metal!, November 4, 2005

By	Pig Avalanche - See all my reviews

Quite frankly I think that this album stands as a pinnacle of creative songwriting among the early Scandinavian death and black metal bands, which is saying alot. There is so much going on in each song but you could never call it confusing, the tunes just grow organically as if you can see the band hashing em out at an all night jam session righ before your eyes. Darkthrone were all about making supremely atmospheric music that is above all memorable and full of character. I will say that Soulside Journey, Goatlord, to some extent BITNS are a bit of a clusterf*%k compositionally but that is part of their considerable charm. Soulside Journey is a classick of complex death metal.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated Death Metal Classic..., July 10, 2004

By	"x-pert741" (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I just don't see why this album isn't liked all that much. I think it's one of the better Death Metal albums ever released. This was also my first Death Metal album.

The level of musicianship on this album is amazing, especially compared to Darkthrone's later releases, which were very primitive and minimalistic in songwriting (not a bad thing; I also love their later stuff as well). This album shows a lot of promise, and I've been wondering for awhile how Darkthrone would be today if they'd stayed in the Death Metal path. This reminds me of some other bands, like Entombed or Slipknot for example, who played Death Metal in the beginning (check Entombed's Left Hand Path and Clandestine, and Slipknot's Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.), but have changed their style around a bit (Entombed adding Rock influences, Slipknot becoming Nu Metal).

Every song here is great, but if I had to pick a favorite, it'd probably be Sempiternal Sepulchrality. Other good songs include every song here. In fact, I'm FAR from being a big fan of instrumentals (on Metallica's first four albums, the only instrumental I can enjoy is Anesthesia - Pulling Teeth from Kill 'Em All), but the two instrumentals present here (Track 4, Accumulation of Generalization, and track 11, Eon) are great songs, which aren't pretentious and dragged-out, and they actually enhance the mood of the album as a whole.

Every song here except for the instrumental tracks has at least one guitar solo. Nocturno Culto's solos are some of the best I've ever heard. I honestly can't tell who's singing on this album though. No one in the lineup is listed as a singer, but Fenriz is listed as lyricist. In the interviews on this digipak version, from what I remember, neither Fenriz nor Nocturno Culto say who sings on this album. Although I have a feeling it's Fenriz, because I know he sings on Darkthrone's early demoes, yet the vocals here sound different. Oh well.

Overall, like the title of this review says, this is a true Death Metal classic. Few other Death Metal albums I've heard measure up to this (one album that is just as good, if not better, is Nile's Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka). The music is very technical, yet very atmospheric (the keyboards in certain parts remind me of a combo of Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness and Nocturnus' Ethereal Tomb), and envokes unique moods just like Under A Funeral Moon or Transilvanian Hunger. If you find this in a store near you, or on Ebay or whatever, I highly reccomend this album.

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old School, May 18, 2005

By	TreyC (Australia) - See all my reviews

Anyone who says darkthrone are amazingly talented is lying.Anyone who believes them is an idiot.No dakthrone are not amazingly talented they make god awful noise and scream blasphemy.And thats the way it should be.Remember back in the early 90s before 14 year old kids in Lamb of God shirts went to slipknot shows and called themselves metal?If you do you would already own this,If you dont why are you wanting a darkthrone Cd?.This is not so much the Black metal they are nowadays reknowned for this is somewhere in between black/Death and doom metal.Its nothing special its your basic mid tempo metal with the odd change and some twisted lyrics.I think its more for those who want a piece of black metal history than those who want some brutal black metal.More of a collectors album i say. (opeth satanic? WTF?)