Under a Funeral Moon [Import]

Darkthrone (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B00004SZA8
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,421 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Natassja in Eternal Sleep

2. Summer of the Diabolical Holocaust

3. The Dance of Eternal Shadows

4. Unholy Black Metal

5. To Walk the Infernal Fields

6. Under a Funeral Moon

7. Inn I de Dype Skogers Favn

8. Crossing the Triangle of Flames

Editorial Reviews

1993 album by the dark metal outfit for the Music ForNations label. Limited to just 500 copies & pressed on ablack & white picture disc, it contains eight tracks,including 'Natassia In Eternal Sleep' and 'Summer Of TheDiabolical Holocaust'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best from Darkthrone, February 28, 2002

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death metal and black metal "death metal and ... (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under a Funeral Moon (Audio CD)

This album is a tribute to the primitive and thunderous Bathory albums which started the Scandinavian revival of that subgenre, using power chords like cudgels against boxy basic rhythms broken to fit dimensions of shuddering, resonant riffing. Fenriz strips down his drumming to emphasize its basic and simplistic tendencies, highlighting miniature epic pieces (in five power chords) with a light-footed sense of oncoming rhythmic change. While "Under a Funeral Moon" was controversial at its release for its deliberately distorted production, it is now seen as the forerunner of the "raw" experience that most of black metal is continuing to this day. One of the darkest voices of early modern black metal.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With my Art I am the Fist in the Face of god, September 6, 2006

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Phoust (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under a Funeral Moon (Audio CD)

If you want to form a true black metal band then this is quite simply the unholy blue print for unsuccess. After Bathory's "Bathory" (1984), "The Return" (1985) and "Under the Sign of the Black Mark"(1987) there are no other albums that accurately represents what true black metal is meant to sound like, apart from other Darkthrone albums. Anyone immersed at the very extreme end of black metal will bear witness to the fact all true black metal strives to sound like this. So many people complain about the poor production, which I will admit for anyone approaching this for the first time from a more mainstream angle that it can at first be difficult to appreciate. This however is part of what makes it truly great. Some would say that this record is cold sounding, which is true. It is what would become known as the Necro sound. All the aesthetic principles of true black metal are present here from the buzzing sound of the guitar, the rattling sound of the "summoning", the satanic poetry to the black and white monochromatic artwork. This is a great introduction to best and most rewarding branch of black metal and the foundation upon which all other true black metal is built. Start here with Darkthrone and get the Bathory albums also, after that you're on your own because where this went does not appear on Amazon. Darkthrone were and are the most important band in the black metal underground in the nineties. Also check out "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" "Transylvanian Hunger" "Panzerfaust".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Darkthrone, December 12, 2005

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Bill Lee (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under a Funeral Moon (Audio CD)

"Under A Funeral Moon" is Darkthrone's third album and the one that really cemented their reputation as one of the leaders of the black metal genre. Their first album, "Soulside Journey" was a haze of standard Swedish-style death metal and their second, "A Blaze In The Northern Sky" was inventive, but too close to their idols Celtic Frost for comfort. With this album, however, Darkthrone presents something new, exciting, and terrifying all at once.

For the most part rejecting the standard root-fifth powerchord that fueled almost all metal up until that point, Darkthrone creates a hellish wash of a distorted harmonics that ensnares the listener and forces him to come to terms with the onslaught before him. "Under A Funeral Moon" delivers a series of punishing tracks like "Natassja In Eternal Sleep," "Unholy Black Metal," and the title track in addition to slower, percussion driven tracks like "To Walk The Infernal Fields" that really bring the Celtic Frost influence to the front without sounding generic or overly derivative.

The production on this album is notoriously lo-fi, but its anemic sound gives it a certain mystique and obscurity not readily found in the crystal clarity of albums released by bands such as Emperor during this timeframe. Although Darkthrone's follow-up "Transilvanian Hunger" is probably the superior album, it's an extremely close call. "Under A Funeral Moon" is essential listening; it's one of THE black metal albums to have if you're going to have any at all. Highly recommended for black metal fans (who should already have the album anyway) and those looking for a good introduction to what Second Wave black metal was all about.