Pre-Historic Metal
by Darkthrone
- Type: Album
- Released: 8 May 2026
- Label: Peaceville
- Country: Norway
- Length: 41:03
- Community rating: 3.45/5 from 14 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On their 2026 opus, Pre-Historic Metal, Darkthrone excavates the very bedrock of heavy music, eschewing the speed and punk inflections of recent outings for a monolithic focus on primeval doom. The production is deliberately archaic, capturing a cavernous, analog warmth that feels unearthed rather than engineered. Nocturno Culto鈥檚 riffs are tectonic plates grinding with geological weight, while Fenriz鈥檚 drumming provides a ritualistic, unadorned pulse. This is not a return to black metal, but a conceptual journey even further back, forging a sound that is elemental, atavistic, and quintessentially Darkthrone.
Genres
Descriptors: monolithic, male vocalist, lo-fi, harsh-vocals, DIY
Tracklist
- They Found One Of My Graves (5:14)
- Pre-Historic Metal (4:19)
- Siberian Thaw (6:45)
- Deeply Rooted (4:57)
- The Dry Wells Of Hell (6:11)
- So I Marched To The Sunken Empire (3:21)
- Eat Eat Eat Your Pride (4:50)
- Eon 4 (5:23)
Credits
- Darkthrone - primary artist, music by [all music by], producer [produced by]
- Frederick Jude - executive-producer
- Matthew Vickerstaff - layout
- Jack Control - mastered by [mastering by]
- Ole 脴vstedal - mixed by, producer [produced by], recorded by
- Silje (Huleboer) H酶gevold - mixed by
- Fenriz - performer
- Nocturno Culto - performer
- Mads Luis Wattne - recorded by