Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

8.7 | 969 votes |

Release date:	5 February 2002
Style:	Black metal
Owners:	1198 have it 73 want it 3 trade it

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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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.

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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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M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3175 From: Australia	21.11.2011 - 09:55 Rating: 7 M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3175 From: Australia The DVD's a waste of time. Don't bother putting it on unless you just want to listen to it. ---- "Another day, another Doug." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!" Loading...
Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada	+1 21.11.2011 - 10:28 Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada Surely Abbath does something comical, no? ---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." Loading...
Mrdissection Posts: 36 From: Egypt	05.05.2012 - 00:53 Rating: 7 Mrdissection Posts: 36 From: Egypt One of the greatest black metal of all time Loading...
InnerSelf proofread free Posts: 2623 From: Syria	+1 05.05.2012 - 01:13 Rating: 10 InnerSelf proofread free Posts: 2623 From: Syria Still one of my all time favorite BM albums, among the top 5 for sure ---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself. Loading...
serega25 Posts: 167 From: Russia	07.08.2012 - 00:23 Rating: 10 serega25 Posts: 167 From: Russia No words to say, just... Perfection... Loading...
John Sandman Posts: 57 From: Portugal	28.03.2013 - 20:15 Rating: 9 John Sandman Posts: 57 From: Portugal My vote was the 666 vote \m/ Not the biggest fan of black metal with the obvious excpetion of Immortal. Excellent! Loading...
Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 53022 From: Norway	25.11.2013 - 22:20 Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 53022 From: Norway 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 ---- 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 Loading...
Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada	+1 22.03.2014 - 02:12 Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada 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". ---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." Loading...
Erik M. Posts: 3104 From: The Netherlands	+1 05.04.2014 - 21:59 Rating: 8 Erik M. Posts: 3104 From: The Netherlands 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. Loading...
Basil Posts: 3 From: Egypt	19.12.2016 - 13:36 Basil Posts: 3 From: Egypt This is a real masterpiece! Loading...
DeathMetal Posts: 335 From: Canada	24.12.2016 - 04:34 Rating: 9 DeathMetal Posts: 335 From: Canada Dang, this is good. Loading...
musicalkaratekid Posts: 1504 From: UK	11.04.2018 - 01:10 Rating: 8 musicalkaratekid Posts: 1504 From: UK 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. Loading...
Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8035 From: Canada	31.07.2018 - 05:44 Rating: 7 Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8035 From: Canada One by One is a sick song and the rest of the album fails to live up to it, and even gets pretty mediocre and borderline boring. ---- 14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse I do your mum Loading...
Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya	06.01.2019 - 21:39 Rating: 9 Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya A more mature At the Heart of Winter and the peak of the sound Immortal began on the Pure Holocaust. Which is better between this and AtHoW is a question akin to between the 1000th woman you bed and the 1098th you bed which represents the greater achievement. ---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres. Loading...
Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 53022 From: Norway	28.11.2019 - 15:24 Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 53022 From: Norway Written by Maasai Mara on 06.01.2019 at 21:39 s a question akin to between the 1000th woman you bed and the 1098th you bed which represents the greater achievement. Hahhahahaaahha does it matter how many wonen you had, ? if you are sucker in bad you cant be better, same in metal, this is good album, more raging, more grimm, more as Immortal all is about ---- 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 Loading...
Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya	29.11.2019 - 19:22 Rating: 9 Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya Written by Bad English on 28.11.2019 at 15:24 Hahhahahaaahha does it matter how many wonen you had, ? if you are sucker in bad you cant be better, same in metal, this is good album, more raging, more grimm, more as Immortal all is about the more women you bed the better you become in sex, unless it's different in Norway. I agree it is the most grim and raging of the Immortal discography and surely personally it is my favorite Immortal Album. ---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres. Loading...