Norwegian black metal legends Darkthrone are releasing their new album Astral Fortress next week (10/28) via Peaceville, and they’ve just shared its first single, “Caravan of Broken Ghosts.” It’s an eight-minute epic that starts out on the softer, slower side (by Darkthrone’s standards), but it does eventually evolve into heavy, high-speed black metal. Fenriz says:
There is a revisit vibe of ‘Quintessence’ at first, which is a total coincidence as it is Ted’s song and I wrote ‘Q’. The song then explodes into fiercer metal, pounding and catching there as well, with clever riff shifts. And then the classic doom ending. Thank you, Ted.
01. Caravan Of Broken Ghosts [07:53]
02. Impeccable Caverns Of Satan [05:34]
03. Stalagmite Necklace [05:22]
04. The Sea Beneath The Seas Of The Sea [10:10]
05. Kevorkian Times [04:27]
06. Kolbotn, West Of The Vast Forests[01:54]
07. Eon 2 [04:40]
