One of the most elusive, iconic and musically knowledgeable pioneers of the second wave of black metal, Darkthrone multi-instrumentalist Gylve Fenris Nagell (better known as just Fenriz) has ...

While Darkthrone might not have been the first black metal band that I ever got into (That honor probably goes to Mayhem) they were always my favorite.The raw diversity emboded by the band has ...

Black metal pioneer Fenriz looks at the changing phases of Darkthrone over their 33-year career. The best of Kerrang! delivered straight to your inbox three times a week. What are you waiting for?

When one thinks of black metal OGs Darkthrone, most likely, the image of a gangly guy with a candelabra comes to mind, and with it, black metal’s trappings and faults. But, like true originators, the ...

The name Darkthrone is synonymous with the Scandinavian black metal scene. But Fenriz, one-half of Darkthrone, has a different viewpoint of the genre as an entity and the band's place within it. As he ...

With their true Norwegian black metal days behind them and nothing left to prove, the longrunning duo trumpet their joyful debt to classic heavy metal. Norwegian metal duo Darkthrone’s career ...

Fenriz is a member of Darkthrone, who since 1986 have been one of the preeminent bands in the Norwegian black metal scene. He also evidently lives in a suburb of Oslo called Kolbotn.

Black metal’s nihilistic philosophies and destructive tendencies basically cursed its practitioners with brief and tormented careers – particularly among the Norwegian bands arising in the ...

This is the moment when Darkthrone decide to become a black metal band. Where death metal is a labyrinth littered with quicksand pits that suck you under, black metal is an icy wind that pulls you ...

Darkthrone have long had a talent for coming up with album titles that might be described as “prototypical black metal.” You know what I mean. A Blaze in the Northern Sky. Under a Funeral Moon.

According to Cage's son, who is a known black metal musician, the Oscar-winning thespian has a taste for the corpse-painted genre. ... He likes Darkthrone and he likes Satyricon, as well.

Panzerfaust was a huge step forward for Darkthrone. It's a testament not just to the band, but the early history of black metal. Of course , part of why I chose to write about this record is ...