PRE-HISTORIC METAL – THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM OF MONUMENTALLY PRIMITIVE METAL FROM THE NORSE CAVEMEN
OUT NOW ON PEACEVILLE RECORDS
Photo credit – Peer Olav Kittilsen
NEW VIDEO FOR “THEY FOUND ONE OF MY GRAVES” RELEASED
“The old school never gets old”
Fenriz
In a year marking four decades since their first incarnation as Black Death, 2026 sees the return of Norwegian duo Fenriz and Nocturno Culto, better known as Darkthrone. The new studio album Pre-Historic Metal, out now via Peaceville, is fuelled by a long-running obsession with invoking the spirit of old-sounding metal, and doing things in their own, uncompromising way.
Venturing out once more from their Northern cave with a new batch of timeless riffs, the band fly the Pre-Historic Metal banner high, leaning into the raw, timeworn sound for their latest primal offering.
As Fenriz himself proclaims of the title’s symbolic origin, “Prehistoric is a loose term. I just figure it’s our VIBE, our take on things and it’s more a statement that we use old style to create something new”.
To coincide with the album’s release there is a new lyric video for the album opener “They Found One Of My Graves”, created by Matthew Vickerstaff (Darkwave Arts).
Video created by Matthew Vickerstaff
A continuation of 2024’s stellar ‘It Beckons Us All’, ‘Pre-Historic Metal’ is a ferocious slab of primal epics & gargantuan riffs with organic sound, graced with the ever-present permeating spirit of the 70s and 80s. This next chapter in Darkthrone’s unyielding saga presents a vast odyssey through the sonic landscapes of Thrash, Black, Heavy and Doom Metal and, adorned with a punishing and “in your face” guitar presence, Darkthrone stirs the cauldron of savage creativity with a nod to the writing methods which were indicative of their earlier works of the late 80s, but with a more refined craft.
Summarising what the album represents, Fenriz explains: “It means that we are metal. With very loud guitars. “Frightfully barbaric but not without finesse”, I call it. We collaborated in the studio more than ever, who’s playing what is still in a purple haze, but last but not least it was a sort of hardening of the arteries – we decided to tighten the tourniquet and do 8 effective songs brimming with riffs instead of the airy plodding we so much enjoy usually”.
‘Pre-Historic Metal’ was recorded at Chaka Khan Studios, Oslo, with production work conducted by Ole Øvstedal, Silje Høgevold & Mads Luis. Mastering was carried out by Jack Control at Enormous Door, and Maor Appelbaum Mastering.
Pre-Historic Metal Track listing
- They Found One Of My Graves (05:17)
- Pre-Historic Metal (04:19)
- Siberian Thaw (06:45)
- Deeply Rooted (04:58)
- The Dry Wells Of Hell (06:12)
- So I Marched To The Sunken Empire (03:21)
- Eat Eat Eat Your Pride (04:51)
- Eon 4 (05:24)
Pre-Historic Metal is available on
- A Deluxe box set special edition featuring:
– Exclusive splatter 180gm heavyweight vinyl with gatefold sleeve & exclusive alternate cover artwork by Maciej Kamuda.
– Exclusive cassette edition.
– CD edition.
– Booklet including an interview by Harald Fossberg on the making of ‘Pre-Historic Metal’.
– 2 posters
- LP on black & white splatter vinyl – available exclusively at the Peaceville label stores
- LP on purple marble vinyl – available at the Peaceville label stores + select stores worldwide
- LP on classic black vinyl
- LP on white vinyl (available exclusively in Germany + exclusive T-shirt bundles at EMP)
- LP on dark green vinyl (available exclusively in Norway)
- LP on silver vinyl (available exclusively in Sweden)
- LP on transparent orange vinyl (available exclusively in North America)
- LP on coke bottle green (available at independent records stores in North America)
- CD
- Digital
ORDER YOUR COPY, STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PRE-HISTORIC METAL HERE
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