Darkthrone

Darkthrone is a Norwegian heavy metal band from Kolbotn, Akershus. Formed in 1986 as a death metal band named Black Death, in the early 1990s, Darkthrone switched to a black metal style influenced by Bathory and Celtic Frost, and were a leading band in the Norwegian black metal scene. Darkthrone has been a duo consisting of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto since guitarist Zephyrous left the group in 1993. The band has released 22 studio albums, but do not perform live and have sought to remain outside the mainstream.

The band's debut, Soulside Journey (1991), was their only death metal studio album. Their first three black metal albums, A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992), Under a Funeral Moon (1993), and Transilvanian Hunger (1994), are often called the "Unholy Trinity". These albums are considered the peak of the band's career and among the most influential black metal recordings.

Beginning with The Cult Is Alive (2006), the band diverged from black metal and shifted to a style more akin to "blackened" crust punk and speed metal. Since The Underground Resistance (2013), the band has incorporated classic heavy metal, doom and thrash, and their style has been described as "blackened heavy metal".

In 2016, the staff of Loudwire named them the 49th-best metal band of all time. In recent years, they collaborated with the National Library of Norway for exhibitions on Norwegian cultural history and black metal.