Total Death

Darkthrone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The End Records
• ASIN: B000E1XOC6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,923 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This album was thought by many, at the time, to be the last Darkthrone would ever produce. Not so. As it stands, this is an exhaustive foray even further into the primitive black metal chaos that they had been exploring over the past five albums, and is actually considered by many to be their greatest work. As it stands, this is like a survey of the influences of the years that had come before, from Bathory to Celtic Frost, Hellhammer to Thorns and Mayhem. Excellent, well-defined, exquisitely engineered paens to blasphemy and the call of the dark, with lyrics written by some of the most notable musicians in the Norwegian scene, including Garm, Ihsahn, etc. Features members from Satyricon, Storm & Isengard.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Unholy Black Metal, December 4, 2003

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A. Jardine "Midgard Jardin" (Washington, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Total Death (Audio CD)

Darkthrone's sixth album, Total Death, is my personal favorite of all their albums. The production is a bit higher vs other releases, and it shows. Nocturno Culto's insane riffs and frightening chants on the first 3 songs is beyond comparison. the sixth song is faster than any song Ive ever heard. Fenriz is going bonkers on the drums and his Satanic poetry is also beyond comparison. OVerall, I would give this album 6 or 7 stars!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So underated, July 26, 2007

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Lucas Hockley "InterCorpse" (Mission Viejo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Death (Audio CD)

This is a very powerful release from Darkthrone. Most people that are new to black metal only hear Transilvanian Hunger, which is a good solid album, but there are so many better Darkthrone records. This is among the best releases by Darkthrone. Very Celtic Frost. This is a very dark album. This album is up there with Blaze in the Northern Sky, and this album is better than under a funeral moon. Great album. I recommend this album to fans of black metal.

4.0 out of 5 stars It took a while..., July 16, 2005

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Craig Allen Moore (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Total Death (Audio CD)

...but I finally tracked down a Moonfog version of this mid-period Darkthrone album (after seeing a few bootlegged versions which included Transilvainian Hunger as a bonus). After recently acquiring and subsequently falling in love with Panzerfaust, the album previous to Total Death, I knew I had to have this one as well. The first thing I noticed was that Fenriz did not write ANY of the lyrics (I'm curious why)and that instead, he recruited the elite of the elite from Norway's fabled black metal scene to fill out the record (Nocturno Culto wrote three or four of the tracks' lyrics). So what you have is an "all-star" feeling to Total Death, with Garm(Ulver), Ihsahn(Emperor), and Satyr(Satyricon) all lending a bit of their blackened personas to the ultimate barbarian metal band in the world. For the most part, this is not a departure from the Panzerfaust style, although the pace is quicker. Every once in a while you get a low down and dirty Celtic Frost riff, and there's even a full-on thrash song here, but there's no mistaking it's Darkthrone. Not as good as Panzerfaust in my opinion, but definitely up there with the rest of the mid- to late-period releases by these misanthropists.