Transilvanian Hunger [Enhanced]

1. Transilvanian Hunger

2. Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner

3. Skald Av Satans Sol

4. Slottet I Det Fjerne

5. Graven Takeheimens Saler

6. I en Hall Med Flesk Og Mjød

7. As Flittermice as Satans Spys

8. En as I Dype Skogen

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Domestic edition of the Scandinavian dark metal act's 1994 album. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Transilvanian Hunger
Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner
Skald Av Satans Sol
Slottet I Det Fjerne
Graven Takeheimens Saler
I en Hall Med Flesk Og Mj
As Flittermice as Satans Spys
En as I Dype Skogen

Album Description

2003 remastered reissue of the Norwegian black metal act's 1994 album is pressed onto an enhanced disc featuring an exclusive interview with the band (Chapter 4), packaged in a digipak. 8 tracks. Peaceville.

Customer Reviews:

I'm among those who don't quite understand this........2007-04-17

I still am in the dark as to why this is rendered a classic album. Sure, the first track was pretty good and opened with an interesting riff...but that was about it. I must say, I do enjoy the first track a lot...it is what people describe it to be. Still though, no one ever mentioned that the riff repeats 50,000 times- and even though the repetition actually doesnt bother me, personally, so much, after about 3 or 4 sequential listens, it gets a bit boring.

As for the rest of the CD: Definitely not all it's cracked up to be. Admittedly, it gives you about 2 or 3 songs of cold and dismal feeling black metal...but the rest of the LP is just a bore really.

I agree with what was stated before. I have no idea who came up with the idea that black metal has to be gritty and hold a lacking production. I get the fact that it makes it seem more primitive and that some people like that, but why does that mean commerically geared black metal bands have to be held at a lower standard?

Overall, this album is okay. I wouldnt say its as horrible as some have quoted it to be, but it isnt anything great either. You really have to be in the mood to listen to it, and you cant expect to listen for too long, considering it sounds very alike throughout the whole thing.

IS...What It Proclaims to Be, and Does It Well........2007-02-24

From the first moment I put Transilvanian Hunger in for an initial listen I knew it was the type of Black Metal I'd enjoy. The guitar riffs are GRITTY, the vocals are like the wailings of a tortured soul from the depths of the pit! While the songs themselves are minimalistic the sounds evoked are exactly what you're looking for. Dark, intense, and somber. The songs are also cleverly layered with subtle variations that the careful ear will discern easily. When I consider this album as a whole it is, quite simply, PASSIONATE Black Metal! If you haven't heard Darkthrone before, try this album first, you won't regret it.

TRVE, GRIM, EVIL, KVLT .......2006-12-12

This release is arguably the most influential black metal record of all time. This is "trve kvlt" black metal in its most pure and stripped down form. No pretensions... no nonsense... just pure evil. Darkthrone hate our contemporary times... this is total nihilistic bliss and a knife wound to our useless and pathetic world built upon deception, illusions, and lies! This is anti-commercial black metal. You can't scare your parents with this release because this music is well beyond any feeble attempts of moronic teenage rebellion. This record promotes the slaughter and genocide of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir mall dwelling, self-pitying cry baby Goths.

Raw Power........2006-06-28

Call this Darkthrone's basement tapes. It's very fast, very raw, and very repetitive. When I think of black metal, this is the kind of sound and quality that I'm thinking of: a blur of scorched black tar (Vlad Tepes anyone?). Certain bands, despite a violent sound, are too clean sounding for my taste. This is good'n'dirty. The riffs and drums are as monochromatic as the album art, which appears as if it were made on a mimeograph machine, and it sounds as if it were recorded on a four track and transferred to a magnetic casette tape -- which then became the master. It's Bathory but faster, Venom with thinner drums, Sodom with thicker guitars.

It's not worth debating whether this is the "greatest" black metal album ever -- who cares if it is? If you like your black metal very raw and not particulary "groovy" (in a Celtic Frost kind of way), then this is your baby. If you like your black metal in thick slabs of hyperspeed, a la Hellhammer or Frost, then this isn't your thing. It's that simple. Maybe you prefer Emperor's wall of sound, or Mayhem's NWOBHM riffs, or maybe you prefer the cacophonous, barbaric bashing of Darkthrone. I prefer all three; if you're a black metal fan, you'll probably prefer all three as well. Given this fact, you will not find it important whether it is the "greatest" or not, just that it's really primitive, Bathory-inspired madness.

For the atavism in all of us.

A sonic blizzard to be remembered.......2006-04-25

Many consider this album to be the definitive black metal album. This doesn't reflect the quality of Transilvanian Hunger, but rather the impact it made on the genre. As usual, there are two camps. Those who like the album, and those who pass it off as dull and repetitive. Evidently I'm in the former. Nocturno Culto's trem melodies drone obsessively, freezing Darkthrone's ice-cold melodies into the listener's mind. That and the muted production sculpt a rather hypnotic lull, strangely juxtaposed with rabid vocal delivery up there with Abbath and Dead's classic performances. The maintained, simplistic melodies create the sense of a ray of light piercing a dense veil of mist, when a new tempo comes skewering forth. Instead of throwing obvious hooks at you, Fenriz and Nocturno traverse their own frostbitten path, and incite the listener to join in. Recommended.
- Thus says the Pellington

Average customer rating:

So this is darkthrone?
The back excerpt says it all... TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL...
All 8 songs sound the same!
Well, it's okay...
Dark purity

Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone
Manufacturer: Futurist Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Transilvanian Hunger
Burzum/Aske

ASIN: B000005VHJ
Release Date: 1995-02-21

Tracks:

Transilvanian Hunger
Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner
Skald Av Satans Sol
Slottet I Det Fjerne
Graven Takeheimens Saler
I En Hall Med Flesk Og Mjod
As Flittermice As Satans Spys
En As I Dype Skogen

Album Description

Domestic edition of the Scandinavian dark metal act's 1994 album.

Customer Reviews:

So this is darkthrone?.......2006-08-20

I Have been meaning to get into this band for a while (seeing as i own some dimmu borgir cd's and battles in the north) and well everywhere ive read said this was true black metal as well as darkthrones best so i bought this (it was also cheaper then others' like panzurfrost, under a funeral moon & a blaze in the morther sky) as i was listeing to this i got lost in it like i do with most cd's but i did notice one key thing, THIS CD IS VERY REPETIVE which is a huge drawback, so take it for what it's worth, but if you wanna hear black metal this is a good listen

The back excerpt says it all... TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL..........2005-10-22

Dude...you guys don't know black metal...there are so many bad reviews about this album that it makes me sick to my stomach! DarkThrone is one of the pioneers of norwegian black metal along with MayheM (with Oystein and Per Yngve. DarkThrone gave up the whole trendy death metal scene to become the UNHOLY darkthrone and ever sense then, they NEVER made a bad album. The production of this album added to the dark, grim atmosphere of the album, and i do not regret buying it at all. The album is sung entirely in Norwegian which kicks soooo much @$$!! I think all music should be sung in its native language. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Polish whatever...BLACK METAL IST KREIG!!!

All 8 songs sound the same!.......2004-11-09

Seriously, though. You can play the first 30 seconds of each song, and you get the same result as listening to the whole song. This is by far NOT Darkthrone's best album. It is their worst. The production, while it was meant to sound like Darkthrone recorded this in a snowy environment or something like that, it just sounds like they recorded it onto a tape then re-recorded it onto a CD. Really cheesy and lo-fi. If you are just getting into Darkthrone, get some of their slickly recorded later stuff.

Well, it's okay..........2004-09-02

I do not believe this to be as epic, much less good as most tend to make it out to be. This album is simply good, nothing more. Although I do take much more pleasure in listening to this over the tunes of the likes of other kvlter and tr00er bands, this is over worshipped. This is another black metal band which practices minimalist art, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I happen to like minimalism in many cases, but in this instance you may as well take the first sixty seconds of each song and then replay it for another two or three minutes; you'll get the same effect as listening to an entire song.

Minimalism is not bad. Lack of variety is what erodes the greatness of this album and only forces me to ponder about how good this could have been. The band had the right idea; they just needed to expand upon it a little bit with more riffs. On the level of skill, I'm sure any guitar newbie could learn any of these songs, they aren't hard to play. What makes this attractive more or less is the sheer nature of this recording.

The blurry production gives Darkthrone a bit of an advantage for their quest to sound as if they recorded Transilvanian Hunger while camping out in a forest on a snowy winter night. Actually, this sounds more like it was recorded in a studio, then that recording was recorded on a tape player if you want to be realistic. The vocals sound like a growl in vein of a rasp; Nocturno Culto somewhat resembles the late Mayhem singer, Dead, during songs like "Slottet I Det Fjerne" with his "ARRRGH!" Like the guitar playing, the drumming is pretty simple; Fenriz mainly just uses mid-paced blast beats. However, I happen to have a soft spot for the drumming here because of the way the non stop pounding adds a nice dosage of chaos to this album.

Even though the guitars are just fast strumming, there is a lot of melody within the simplicity. Yeah, the sound is cold and grim, but even that isn't an excuse to cut corners like this. The guys in Darkthrone have a knick for creating good melody with little effort involved, but I know they could have done more with less recursive riffs to make this album really scream `epic.' This is worth owning if you're a fan of black metal, without a doubt, but I wouldn't call this essential by any means. If you hate repetitive minimalism then you may want to download this before you consider purchasing it.

Dark purity.......2004-07-22

This is Black Metal distilled to its grimmest, darkest purity. The guitars meld together in a slowly shifting black harmonic wall. The riffs are repetitive but I found them mesmerising. The drums have been stripped down to their basics, no fills for Fenriz, and act as a solid blasting foundation for the guitars. The vocals are placed perfectly within the music and are savage. That most of the songs are sung in Norwegian adds to the evil angry experience.

The lyrics written by Fenriz and Count Grishnakh - Varg Vikernes of Burzum, are darkly poetic and evocative, capturing in words an essence of horror that few other bands ever achieve. At least the two songs in English do. This is dark, evil music, to call it grim doesn't begin to describe the emotion Darkthrone achieved on Transylvanian Hunger.

I didn't buy this album for some time as I heard of its primitive production, my bad.
Yes the production is intentionaly "bad", but the lo-fi sound really does help to create a palpably dark, cold atmosphere. It only adds to the cold wall-of-noise aesthetic Darkthrone were attempting. "Blaze In The Northern Sky" and "Under A Funeral Moon" are both excellent albums but sound "spiky" to me: there are things that stand up out of the mix, be it a guitar or Fenriz's highhat. On "Transylvanian Hunger" the sound has been honed/refined into a blasting wall. It just sounds more unified than Darkthrone's previous two black metal releases, (not better, just different)

"Transylvanian Hunger" is the music of ice, stone and anger, an innovative album from some of the true innovators in black metal. Certainly one of Darkthrones best and the quintesence of the Norwegian underground black metal sound. When I first got it I played it twice through in a row, at work no less. Listen to it loud in headphones at night, it will send chills down your spine.

Average customer rating:

can't deny this classic
burzum, "det som engang var"
The fading beauty and emptiness of black metal

Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005A3N4

Tracks:

Transilvanian Hunger
Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner
Skald Av Satans Sol
Slottet I Det Fjerne
Graven Takeheimens Saler
I en Hall Med Flesk Og Mj
As Flittermice as Satans Spys
En as I Dype Skogen

Album Description

UK reissue of the Scandinavian dark metal act's 1994 album. Housed in a slipcase. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

can't deny this classic.......2005-09-24

a classic slab of lo-fi cold grim black primitive metal. the atmosphere is bleak and the riffs are so buried and hypnotic. the production (or lack of) is always an issue with most people who love or loathe this band, but personally, i think it suits the music fine and gives it a great harsh edge. people can argue about Darkthrone's production ethics all day as far as i care...but it's the riffs and the guitarwork that keep me coming back to this album for repeated listens. the droning buzzsaw riffs soaked with reverb and distortion and played so fast, but with great skill and an excellent sense of melody (true norwegian black metal melody, that is).

burzum, "det som engang var".......2005-01-24

this is an album every fan of black, death, or doom metal should own! raw, unnerving, simple brutality, and simply stunning work from Varg Vakernes. the atmospherics are great.

The fading beauty and emptiness of black metal.......2003-01-30

...With a few notes twisted around a shape that organizes the complex arrangements of simple riff bits that make up these songs, Darkthrone nurtures and explores an atmosphere of darkness, isolation and personal strength.

Grinding out resonant melodic fragments in repetition driven by a throbbing techno-influenced style of ambient percussion from mastermind Fenriz, these songs rise to a point of expression and hold it before fading away. The emotion is present without the sentimental immediacy of the way in which rock music delivers its conclusions.

Vocals are harsh, production is deliberately and beautifully horrible resounding with broken sound (it sounds like they took some good equipment to a dump outside town, and read the manual to set everything up incorrectly, then recorded), and the music a vast slope of rising perception giving a new energy to significance in life.

Like most great black metal bands, this is a combination of the mystical and the gutter-level pragmatic in its manipulation of the listener through minimalist beauty. ... this album also started the "norsecore" trend: playing four-note diminishing melodies rapidly over unchanging drumming. However, this album has actual songwriting, while the imitators have noise and jingle-esque repetition. ...

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