Plaguewielder

Artist: Darkthrone
Label: Moonfog
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 654436050124
EAN: 0654436050124
ASIN: B00005Y82K

Release Date: 2002-08-13

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Tracks:

Weakling Avenger
Raining Murder
Sin Origin
Command
I, Voidhanger
Wreak

Customer Reviews:

True Unholy Black Metal.......2003-12-04

This isn't their greatest work, but N. Culto's voice seems to have gotten more deep and dark vs. previous work. Fenriz stays with his insane Satanic poetry making this album a step better than Ravishing Grimness.

6 tracks of pure norwegian black metal.......2003-05-26

This is my second Darkthrone CD that I own, the first one I bought was "Under a Funeral Moon". In comparison to "Under a Funeral Moon" it is very obvious that Darkthrone has progressed as a band since their earlier years. While many black metal elitists would argue that Darkthrone's old, repetitive, primitive, and massively underproduced sound is what made them great, anybody who truly appreciates the music has to admit that this album is great. The production is still not that great, but the music is far more intricate. The songs on this album are about 8 minutes each, and they are all amazing. It is true that you don't get the same totally evil, grim sound that you get from old Darkthrone on this CD, but this album has their older CDs beat in musicianship by far. If you are a true fan of black metal you should still enjoy this even if it isn't quite the same grim black metal sound that they started with.

Fuzzing EVILution.......2003-02-07

Norse grim rippers are back with another devastating piece of swirling harshness & kult riffage! Indeed I was anticipating this album for a while and it is no more no less THE panzer Darkthrone we are all accustomed to hear, hail & honour! Again the listener is transported to a Void filled with hatred, utter disgust and most importantly the fuzzing garage sonority that launched Black Metal to the genre we all know today. Animalistic but definitely not awkward or clumsy the song-structures are cyclic, energetic and in many times carried by the retro-attack of Fenriz pounding drumming and Nocturno Culto genius riffs.
"Plaguewielder" is also a necessary return to previous ideas and in many ways a step back to construct what was left undone or completely not experimented before. An EVILution on the same pace as "Ravishing Grimness" but that I perceive as a constant return to the uglier origins to bring back the repressed & dirty elements of the past in order to establish the path to a darkened continuation. A move of pure dementia, but one clearly understands that! This is why every album is/has it's own reference point, exhibiting the varied faces of rawness but always belonging to the same necrotic womb.
If one were to explain Darkthrone position within the scene any further it probably wouldn't make any sense weren't they such an influential basis standing aside any trends and always a relief to the ears of the listeners, because the more do you get from them the more do you want, and one never suffers from disillusion by what this due delivers!
Other significant happenings are Fenriz lyrics being more interiorised by N. Culto and consequently better performed, the feelings sound this time more transparent and it makes the sore throat less boring and monochord. The studio work and the overall production does not really deserve too much attention here because we all know very well how Darkthrone is intended to sound, however this album is slightly more polished and as far as I'm concerned no problem or drastic change whatsoever.
The Goat gains it's complete Beast-shape when we're reaching for the end of the album. The opening riff of the second part of ""Wreak" (the last track) leaves my spine shivering with violence, it's totally grim & cold, and 100% of what Norwegian Black Metal is all about! Musical sin is again unleashed and with it a proclamation that Black Metal is not dead and will never be as long as Darkthrone exists!

Abyss Magazine @ Nuno M. [CR]

Darkthrone ? Plaguewielder.......2002-04-24

Plaguewielder, another faultless release from the Norwegian lords of cold, bitter darkness. One would think that after so many years they would have lost their edge... no way, not in the slightest. If anything, they have only become better and better.

Hateful lyrics well complemented by Nocturno's vocals, which continue on the path of rasping, growling grimness just as intense as ever.

Plaguewielder seems to follow the path of Ravishing Grimness exuding astonishingly good sound quality. Still undeniably black metal this release also seems to walk along the edge of thrash in some places, which I think adds to brooding angst that radiates from their songs. Still holding true to the unique timing and simple song structure that Darkthrone is famous for this album falls nothing short from impressive.

So pure, so cold, so Darkthrone.

Tepid, but an improvement.......2002-03-17

"Ravishing Grimness" was awful and this album corrects many of those problems, but still doesn't rise above burnt out and so ends up being pleasant black-metal-y background music. Fenriz and company have the black metal science refined to formula, and the resulting pop sounds nearly like surf music from an apocalyptic world. Guitars saw through toneful and melodic riffing but always return to a Celtic-Frost-influenced darkness and disharmony. It's bouncy in rhythm and the vocals are as always great, but there's nothing here to draw a repeat listen. It is wiser to enjoy this band at their prime.

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