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Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
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Release date: 5 February 2002
Style: Black metal

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Disc I [CD]
01. One By One
02. Sons Of Northern Darkness
03. Tyrants
04. Demonium
05. Within The Dark Mind
06. In My Kingdom Cold
07. Antarctica
08. Beyond The North Waves

Disc II [DVD: Live at the B.B. King New York 2003] [Deluxe Edition bonus]
01. Wrath From Above
02. Damned In Black
03. One By One
04. Tyrants (Part 1)
05. Tyrants (Part 2)
06. Solarfall
07. Beyond The North Waves

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Top 200 albums of all time: 191
Review Lyrics (8)

Line-up
Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen - drums
Stian "Iscariah" Smorholm - bass
Olve "Abbath Doom Occulta" Eikemo - guitars, vocals

Additional info
Produced by Peter Tagtgren. Co-produced by Abbath and Horgh.

Guest review by
Carl Berg
Rating:
9.0
Sons Of Northern Darkness is Immortal's seventh studio album, following the good but not great Damned In Black. The expectations were pretty high for this record, especially that Damned In Black could not fully live up to the majestic At The Heart Of Winter. So, is this new album worthy of Immortal? Does it deliver that cold, chilly Immortal-esque feeling that we all love? Let's find out.

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published 27.09.2010 | Comments (16)

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Comments: 12   Visited by: 804 users
21.11.2011 - 09:55
Rating: 7
M C Vice
Ex-polydactyl
The DVD's a waste of time. Don't bother putting it on unless you just want to listen to it.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
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21.11.2011 - 10:28
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Surely Abbath does something comical, no?
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Prettier than BloodTears.
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05.05.2012 - 00:53
Rating: 7
Mrdissection
One of the greatest black metal of all time
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05.05.2012 - 01:13
Rating: 10
InnerSelf
proofread free
Still one of my all time favorite BM albums, among the top 5 for sure
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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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07.08.2012 - 00:23
Rating: 10
serega25
No words to say, just... Perfection...
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28.03.2013 - 20:15
Rating: 9
John Sandman
My vote was the 666 vote \m/
Not the biggest fan of black metal with the obvious excpetion of Immortal. Excellent!
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25.11.2013 - 22:20
Bad English
Masterchief
Great album, better then previously version and seems band came back whit something, and I dont remember reason why band did split up, but this is good, a little bit winter touch, not such strong as before, but you can feel it, my fav song is In My Kingdom Cold
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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22.03.2014 - 02:12
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Love the influence Zeppelin has on black metal, especially on tracks like "Tyrants" and Behemoth's "O Father O Satan O Sun" that both borrow the main riff from "Kashmir".
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Prettier than BloodTears.
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05.04.2014 - 21:59
Rating: 8
Erik M.
So far I don't like it as much as At the Heart of Winter. Let's see how more spins do this album justice.
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19.12.2016 - 13:36
Basil
This is a real masterpiece!
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24.12.2016 - 04:34
Rating: 9
DeathMetal
Dang, this is good.
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11.04.2018 - 01:10
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid
I certainly agree that the band were aiming for the same musical direction with both this effort and Damned in Black, but I have to say that Sons of Northern Darkness has more memorable moments. Ideas are stretched a little further (which results in my favourite thing about the album being the last three songs) meaning that generally the song lengths here are justified whereas before (apart from At the Heart of Winter of course) some songs seemed a little rushed. I guess that's the punky, thrashy side of the band rearing its ugly head. But yeah, here I enjoyed pretty much the same thing that I appreciated on ...Winter, which is that pretty much every song demonstrates a more (please don't murder me in my sleep for mentioning this term, BM kremlins) "progressive" song structure. Because of this, "Antarctica" and "Beyond the North Waves" are brilliant.
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