jpOct 11
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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https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/darkthrones-astral-fortress-it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-kevork-of-times/
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 …

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Rob Thornton (“No Planet B”)Sep 4

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Today, I have released Fractured Temples, the fifth chapter of our history of black metal. We watch as tensions continue to rise between its violent origins and the subgenre’s radical new heirs.

https://open.substack.com/pub/freakflag/p/freakflag-black-metal-fractured-temples?r=okf43&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Freakflag Black Metal: Fractured Temples (2012–2020)

In Part V of our history of black metal, the radical subgenre diversifies further from its violent origins

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