“Sound of iron, hard at work”
You want riffs. And they don’t get much better than the angular, thrashy guitar intro that kicks off Darkthrone’s Blacksmith Of The North (Keep That Ancient Fire). Taken from 2008’s Dark Thrones And Black Flags, it’s easily one of my Top 10 favourite riffs since the turn of the millennium and I love the frost-bitten, crusty sound and Nocturno Culto’s echoing, gravelly vocals. It’s a flaming triumph and a cool, apt title for a band that has kept the ancient fire burning, hammering out quality metal with impressive regularity to this day.
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
I thought Canada was the “north”!
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You thought wrong. They have a song called “Canadian Metal” if that helps?
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I really enjoyed this phase of their career especially. Very cool for them to revisit their influences a bit and get really noisy and gross.
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Love that description! Yes I was really into this era too, they did a lot of their best stuff around this point I reckon.
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