Darkthrone announce their new album »Astral Fortress« and premiere doomy first single »Caravan Of Broken Ghosts«!

Darkthrone premiere a lyric video for the first single »Caravan Of Broken Ghosts« taken from their forthcoming album, »Astral Fortress«, due out on October 28th, 2022 via Peaceville Records.

Tracklist:
01. Caravan Of Broken Ghosts
02. Impeccable Caverns Of Satan
03. Stalagmite Necklace
04. The Sea Beneath The Seas Of The Sea
05. Kevorkian Times
06. Kolbotn, West Of The Vast Forests
07. Eon 2

Courtesy of Peaceville Records:

With the release of their highly anticipated new album »Astral Fortress« imminent, Darkthrone have released the song »Caravan Of Broken Ghosts« accompanied by a lyric video filmed by Fenriz and created by Matthew Vickerstaff.

With the song, Fenriz says “there is a revisit vibe of »Quintessence« at first, which is a total coincidence as it is Ted’s song and I wrote ‘Q’. The song then explodes into fiercer metal, pounding and catching there as well, with clever riff shifts. And then the classic doom ending. Thank you, Ted.”

The ever-productive duo of Nocturno and Fenriz continue their own metallic saga with a new selection of fine, vintage sounding headbanging classics in the making. »Astral Fortress«, the band’s 20th album, will be released on Peaceville on 28 October 2022, and is a swift follow-up to 2021’s »Eternal Hails« opus, which comes from Darkthrone’s consistent and ongoing writing process, which has been in force for some years now. For Darkthrone does not sleep – it only waits.

Photo by Ester Segarra

Carried on the brisk wind of eager rock, with foundations in black, thrash, doom and heavy metal, »Astral Fortress« is the latest album of stellar, eclectic old metal in the Darkthrone odyssey. With a seemingly endless dungeon full of heavy metal influences channelled through Darkthrone’s dynamic riff-machine, plus also with many increasing inspirations taken from their own past catalogue. Even though sprinkled with atmospheric touches such as synthesizers and mellotron on »Astral Fortress« to great effect, the Darkthrone sound remains stripped down to the core; always primitive and organic. Darkthrone has truly become its own beast within the metal world.

»Astral Fortress« was recorded at Chaka Khan Studios in Oslo, the same location used for the »Eternal Hails« album, with Ole Øvstedal and Silje Høgevold and the album was mastered by Jack Control.

Pre-orders available here: darkthrone.lnk.to/AstralFortress

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well