DARKTHRONE — Circle The Wagons (review)

DARKTHRONE — Circle The Wagons album cover Album · 2010 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Vehemency
Circle the Wagons continues in the wake of Darkthrone’s other recent albums. Basically, the album is a mixture of all the influences they’ve got from different metal bands that existed before the whole second wave of black metal (just look at the songtitles such as ”I Am the Graves of the 80s”). And all this is done in a bit tongue-in-cheek spirit, which is another common feature in this later era of Darkthrone.

The new album welcomes at least one new (or more dominant than before) feature: clean singing. This is most prominent on the chorus of the first track ”These Treasures Will Never Befall You” and the title track. This new element gives new energy to the music, and the title track actually belongs to the highlights of Circle the Wagon, being such an epic song fitted into less than 3 minutes. Otherwise I don’t see many differences here, basically just riff-dominant metal that I wouldn’t try to categorize too precisely. ”Black Mountain Totem” presents the best riffs that Darkthrone has come up with lately.

Although generally getting lots of negative feedback, I would lie if I said that Circle the Wagons sucked. It is very enjoyable metal to my ears, just not that kind of black metal that one would like to listen to in dark forests and graveyards. Circle the Wagons is more like an evening spent in a local pub with some Manilla Road playing in the background. Which is fine with me also.
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