Mastodawn

Darkthrone’s Astral Fortress aims for cosmic poetry and lands somewhere between the abyss and an ESL workbook. When does black metal’s broken language stop making sense—and start sounding profound?
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Darkthrone’s Astral Fortress: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Kevork of Times

Darkthrone’s 2022 Astral Fortress album boasts a few awkward, English-as-a-Second-Language turns of phrase that aim for surreal imagery and land dangerously close to non sequitur. Song titles such …