Darkthrone Albums Ranked

[@Questformetal]

I did not include goatlord as it was a demo album so didn’t seem fair

[@ESEJESEJ]

Too bad. Because it is one of my favourites. Why? Well, all thanks to the drums which are the best Fenriz ever recorded. So technical and interesting. Anyway, good video. Agree with you for the most part. But I think the vocals are mixed too high on Panzerfaust.

[@TBaggins96]

Goatlord is so great and so bad at the same time somehow

[@DrDES-dp6un]

You are right... and, according to another source, the vocals hadn't even been recorded when Darkthrone broke with their former Death Metal style.

[@nocturnalgoatlord4325]

I totally respect that you said that it's just your taste and your opinion, for that total respect. For me, these punk albums are something totally badass and simply great. When you go into the woods, make a barbecue and open a beer, then those albums come to the best expression on hiking and freedom , it fit perfect in that mood of the day. for me there is no bad darkthrone album, everything is perfect in its own way

[@alafosca5724]

The Punk oriented albums were hard for me to get into, but when they did... They fucking rocked. I specially like Circle The Wagons. That being said, nothing beats Under A Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger in my taste.

[@jensbaumann6945]

Cant agree more mate👍

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

@@bryanscruggs7566 I agree; and I kinda feel that way about motorhead, altho Darkthrone is more dynamic, varied, and extreme.

[@stevejenkins444]

Circle The Wagons is criminally underrated. But I get why it isn't for everyone. Same goes for Underground Resistance, you can tell they're having fun on these albums. My personal favourite however, has to be Panzerfaust.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

I only own F.O.A.D. + Goatlord, apparently 2 of the least well-regarded. They have grown on me

[@Winterwaldz]

I actually love the underground resistance, very underrated album in my opinion

[@longliveavalon]

Yup one of my favorites! I even bought a shirt of the cover! 😁👍🏻

[@hornyconvict]

all of their more recent output has been great imo

[@moumouzel]

yep, great album

[@lamejohnislame5848]

Under a Funeral Moon is my favorite black metal album of all time. Transilvanian Hunger has the greatest atmosphere and is probably the most important black metal album of that era. I love all their albums, even my least favorites Ravishing/Plague I’d still rate 3/5.love the crust era. Fucking awesome.

[@mr11maiden43]

As usual... always nice to find new stuff😁😁

[@michaelfishman9555]

Love this band and their album art is fucking incredible.

[@darkmarv8045]

1. A Blaze in the Northern Sky 2. Transilvanian Hunger 3. Under a Funeral Moon 4. Panzerfaust 5. Plaguewielder 6. Total Death 7. Ravishing Grimness 8. Sardonic Wrath 9. Soulside Journey 10. Old Star 11. Hate Them 12. The Cult is Alive 13. Circle the Wagons 14. Arctic Thunder 15. The Underground Resistance 17. Dark Thrones and Black Flags 18. F.O.A.D. I love Darkthrone so much, maybe is my favourite norwegian black metal band, the holy trinity (A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hinger) is untouchable, legendary albums, Panzerfaust is fantastic too, agree with Plaguewielder, Total Death and Ravishing Grimness being the underrated ones, i like Sardonic Wrath too (better brother of Hate Them), Soulside Journey is a nice Death Metal debut and Old Star was a surprise (very solid album, more consistent than Arctic Thunder imho). Anyway i like the Crust Punk/Heavy/Thrash Era, i don't think these albums are garbage (only FOAD is really, really bad imho, but also this have decent tracks like Canadian Metal or the title track), but the other ones are decent, The Cult is Alive is a solid crust black album, alcoholic black metal at his best; The Underground Resistance is a decent (and a bit weird) heavy metal experiment (I like Valhalla snd the last track) and Circle the Wagons have some fun tracks.

[@billcowan5539]

Darkthrone are one of the kings of Black/Death metal and I enjoyed your rankings , I was just listening to last year’s Old Star yesterday 🤘

[@PapaMetal47]

I love Circle the Wagons. Makes me want to get drunk, hop on horse, get the horse drunk and start jumping over ditches screaming my head off.

[@theblondbeast777]

01)A Blaze In The Northern Sky 02)Panzerfaust 03)The Underground Resistance 04)Soulside Journey 05)Under A Funeral Moon 06)Circle The Wagons 07)Transilvanian Hunger 08)Plaguewielder 09)Hate Them 10)F.O.A.D 11)Sardonic Wrath 12)Total Death 13)Old Star 14)Dark Thrones And Black Flags 15)The Cult Is Alive 16)Ravishing Grimness 17)Goatlord 18)Eternal Hails 19)Arctic Thunder

[@shutter1374]

Kind of like CKN getting me into Opeth and Agalloch, 2 of my favs. You got me into Bathory which helped get into Darkthrone \o/

[@Questformetal]

Glad you’re finding new music to enjoy 🍺

[@DesolateSolitude]

It’s 2024 and they now have 21 full-length studio albums under their bullet belts. This band kicks ass and all albums are great. I always felt “under a funeral moon” sounded The most “Demonic” and that’s why it ranks #1 for me personally.

[@bernabefernandeztouceda7315]

Yeah because that album is a bathory copy hence the demonic

[@DesolateSolitude]

@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 Bathory copy… You mean that in a bad way? Or? Do like the album? What’s your personal favourite?

[@bernabefernandeztouceda7315]

@@DesolateSolitude not in a bad way. It's clearly a homage to bathory's Under the Sign. Favorite is TH because it's so unique

[@joshthemetalnerd8083]

I haven't heard every Darkthrone album but out of the ones I've heard I would definitely put those same 3 as my top albums and in the same order. Transylvanian Hunger is fucking amazing

[@donkeypunchism]

Helloween ranking would be cool

[@banananaz674]

11:05 hell yeah, the album cover for ABITNS is just so good.

[@badcooper235]

Darkthrone is my second favorite BM after Burzum. A blaze in the northern sky is number 1. Transylvanian Hunger 2 Under a Funeral Moon 3 That's the Unholy Trinity of Perfection

[@JvG0]

I genuinely like all of their stuff. From the death metal debut to the black to the punk. Transylvanian hunger & Panzerfaust are probably my favorites though.

[@Apzue]

the crust metal darkthrone had killer riffs, especially circle the wagons. that song black mountain totem, insane

[@darkend]

Mercyful Fate ranking

[@caljerm]

Plaguewielder is one of my favorites as well and by far the most underrated in their catalog

[@johnballantyne3458]

"Under a Funeral Moon" is my favorite, and honestly I prefer it considerably to "Transilvanian Hunger". That album doesn't really do much for me.

[@rmcpolin1987]

I get that black metal bands often pride themselves on the low fi production but I can’t get past the records like TH that sound like they were recorded inside a bin for a budget of £2. Black metal can be wonderfully atmospheric and to do that you need to hear all the instrumentation IMO.

[@the_Dark_Knight_12]

There is a certain appeal to this raw, low prudction sound. It's the trve kvlt. But Black Metal can also have high quality sound. It just has another impact. For example Marduk's Panzer Division I like to listen to when I'm in the gym and working out and I need something heavy and brutal. But when I'm just chillin and for example I'm on a long trainride or so, well then I may listen to Burzum or Darkthrone. My favourite album for those kind of situations is Im Wald by Paysage d'Hiver.

[@jankaufmann4197]

Here's my list: 1 A Blaze in the Northern Sky 2 Under a Funeral Moon 3 Soulside Journey 4 Hate Them 5 Transilvanian Hunger 6 Panzerfaust 7 The Cult is Alive 8 Circle the Wagons 9 Ravishing Grimness 10 FOAD 11 Goatlord 12 Total Death 13 Plagueweilder 14 Arctic Thunder 15 The Underground Resistance 16 Sardonic Wrath 17 Dark Thrones and Black Flags I haven't listened to the two newer albums yet

[@jonnykhatru]

1. A Blaze in the Northern Sky 2. Under a Funeral Moon 3. Travnsilvanian Hunger 4. Panzerfaust 5. Eternal Hails 6. The Underground Resistance 7. Old Star 8. Soulside Journey 9. Arctic Thunder 10. Astral Fortress 11. Goatlord Original That's my ranking of the ones I've heard

[@olegdepapa]

I would agree with most of the ranking just switching up some of the top ones, and throwing out arctic thunder and plaguewilder.

[@v_marques143]

Venom albums ranked

[@lasa9595]

Candlemass albums ranked

[@aimeeaztec4601]

Blaze has the best cover art of all time I agree!! I’m just getting into black metal so don’t know much. Ive liked satyricon for a long time though 🖤

[@_CPP_]

1: A Blaze In A Northern Sky (One of my favorite Black Metal albums ever) 2: Panzerfaust 3: Transilvanian Hunger 4: Soulside Journey 5: Under A Funeral Moon 6: Eternal Hails 7: Old Star 8: Total Death 9: Sardonic Wrath 10: Goatlord 11: Arctic Thunder 12: Hate Them 13: The Cult Is Alive 14: Plaguewilder 15: Ravishing Grimness 16: The Underground Resistance 17: Dark Thrones And Black Flags 18: Circle Of Vagons 19: F.O.A.D.

[@danseshat569]

Top 3 Panzerfaust A Blaze in the northern sky Under a Funeral Moon

[@mysteriousmr.j8156]

Pazerfaust is good but what about transilvinan hunger

[@lowbrowmetalhead5957]

Vader albums ranked, perhaps?

[@Heavymetaleternia]

1. Under a funeral moon 2. A blaze in the northern sky 3. Transilvanian hunger 4. Total death 5. Ravishing grimness 6. Plaguewielder 7. Hate them 8. Sardonic wrath 9. Panzerfaust That‘s it. I don‘t like anything they‘ve done after Sardonic wrath. Bonus: Soulside journey as it is a fantastic dark death metal album.

[@DrDES-dp6un]

What about a ranking list of all Impaled Nazarene albums (or have I missed it?)?

[@Morn__]

1) Panzerfaust 2) Under a funeral moon 3) A blaze in the northern sky 4) Transilvanian Hunger 5) I don’t know other albums

[@DylieBeans]

Overrated

[@JoshieMadhatt]

I haven't heard all of their albums but as for my favorite Darkthrone material I'm afraid I'm quite a normie and the unholy trinity are my faves specifically Transylvanian Hunger

[@michaelfishman6711]

Can you do a ranking ao Sorcerer

[@caljerm]

Transilvanian Hunger has these inexplicable earworm riffs - for me it stands well above the rest

[@mcstabba]

My top 3; 1 Under A Funeral Moon 2 Transylvanian Hunger 3 Plaugewielder It is heresy I know, to have Plaugewielder in the top three instead of A Blaze In The Northen Sky, I do like that one and it would probably fall somewhere between 4-7 for me I suppose.

[@tomasjonsson7141]

Got all thire albums and love em all but yeah the classic trio is hard to beat =)

[@ArdensSedVirens1]

I would rank them as: -Total Death -FOAD -Plaguewielder -Hate Them -Sardonic Wrath -Dark Thrones and Black Flags -Old Star -The Cult Is Alive -Arctic Thunder -Ravishing Grimness -Circle The Wagons -Transilvanian Hunger -The Underground Resistance -Soulside Journey -Under A Funeral Moon -Panzerfaust -A Blaze In The Norther Sky Never been sure why a lot of their 2000s-2010s stuff is called "crust punk". Punky? Sure, to some degree, but there's far more overt heavy metal and speed metal influence. Arctic Thunder and Old Star really aren't that big of a departure, other than that they decided to incorporate more doom. I definitely agree that era is a mixed bag, but I think they really nailed it with Circle The Wagons and The Underground Resistance. ALSO Ravishing Grimness most certainly deserves more respect. That album is quite solid.

[@MetalTrenches]

I didn’t even realize they had that many. I stick to the first 3 really. Have you listened to Fenris’ commentary tracks?

[@Questformetal]

Panzerfaust is great too and no not heard it is it entertaining?

[@MetalTrenches]

@@Questformetal They are excellent. I have them on the special editions but I think that most of them have since been uploaded to KZbin

[@Questformetal]

Will have to give them a watch then cheers 🤘

[@dan_the_pathmaster7934]

“I love the art”. Have you seen the original album art for Ravishing Grimness and Plaguewielder?

[@Questformetal]

Yeah not a big fan of the old arts plaguewilders is alright but seems more like a death metal cover

[@dan_the_pathmaster7934]

Quest For Metal I don’t know what Nocturno Culto was thinking when he made those

[@shireling6336]

@@dan_the_pathmaster7934 I don't think he did make the artwork for original releases of RG and Plaguewielder. Some Norwegian design company made them and Fenriz just approved them because he didn't give a shit about the art anymore during this time as during the late 90s/early 2000s Fenriz was pretty fucking depressed and was mostly distant about things. Hence why he only has one song on each of those albums whereas Nocturno has five.

[@thrashmaniac99]

My ranking: 1. A Blaze in the Northern Sky 2. Old Star 3. Eternal Hails 4. Panzerfaust 5. The Underground Resistance 6. Soulside Journey 7. Under a Funeral Moon 8. Transilvanian Hunger 9. Ravishing Grimness 10. Sardonic Wrath 11. Arctic Thunder 12. Total Death 13. Circle the Wagons 14. Dark Thrones and Black Flags 15. Hate Them 16. F.O.A.D 17. The Cult is Alive 18. Plaguewielder 19. Goatlord

[@thatonedude9744]

Wait a minute... there are 18 Darkthrone albums?

[@Questformetal]

Others are demos or complilations

[@thatonedude9744]

Okay, I’ve watched the video now, you included 17 but said 16, and I at least get why you’d exclude Goatloard even if I consider than an album. Here’s my ranking: 1.) Under a Funeral Moon 2.) Transilvanian Hunger 3.) Panzerfaust 4.) A Blaze in the Northern Sky 5.) Goatlord 6.) Soulside Journey 7.) The Underground Resistance 8.) Old Star 9.) Sardonic Wrath 10.) Hate Them 11.) Plaguewielder 12.) Arctic Thunder 13.) Dark Thrones and Black Flags 14.) Circle the Wagons 15.) FOAD 16.) The Cult is Alive 17.) Ravishing Grimness 18.) Total Death

[@Questformetal]

I think for most people the top 4 would be similar just in different orders haha good list

[@VlastYs1]

Mine: Shit category 18. Foad 17. Dark Thrones And Black flags 16. Circle the vagons Enjoyable stuff: 15. The cult Is alive 14. The underground resistence 13. Ravishing Grimness 12. Plagueweilder 11. Old star 10. Hate them 9. Arctic Thunder Awesome stuff 8. Soulside Journey 7. Total death 6. Panzerfaust 5. Goatlord 4. Transilvanian Hunger 3. Sardonic Wrath 2. A blaze in the northern sky 1. Under a funeral moon

[@Bigbrokevo]

My favorites are Transilvanian Hunger, Sardonic Wrath, Ravishing Grimness, and Arctic Thunder

[@magnusmaul5447]

Well, considering Varg wrote several tracks on Panzerfaust as well as on the previous album including Quintessence......

[@Transilvanian90]

Good ranking! I agree with you that their newest stuff has been improving massively, since this video came out they released Eternail Hails and Astral Fortress, and both are excellent. I'm also glad to see their mid-era material, Total Death to Sardonic Wrath, get the love it deserves. Also I loved how you straight-up ignored Goatlord lol. That was a... misstep, with those vocals. The instrumental version (on Frostland Tapes) is great though.

[@justsomebody..]

1. Under a funeral moon 2. Transilvanian hunger 3. Blaze in northern sky

[@mysteriousmr.j8156]

The classics

[@MidnightSocial]

Cool video mate. I have to admit I don’t follow Darkthrone very much just the three obvious albums by them that majority of people have. Have you stopped doing the Tier videos now?

[@Questformetal]

For bands yeah tho I do have a tier list coming soon for death metal as a whole

[@DrDES-dp6un]

I reduce my ranking to my personal Top 3 Albums (never mind, folks, but there is other good Darkthrone stuff as well): #1 A Blaze in the Northern Sky #2 Panzerfaust #3 Soulside Journey (I know it's not a BM album, but I don't give a f...)

[@hvmanbandofficial]

1. Trans 2. Funeral 3. Blaze 4. Panzer 5. Soulside

[@michaelgreene7041]

My favourite is the criminally underrated Total Death followed closely by Panzerfaust. Always found Transilvanian Hunger to suffer from a distinct lack of variety when it came to the tunes. After the title track I lose interest very quickly. I understand this is sacrilege to some but I can't help the way I feel.

[@lt8400]

100% agree

[@kaiserv88]

I love panzerfaust

[@anthonybrown8407]

Blaze number 1 followed by TH, but I think it depends whichever you heard first. Surprised you think Artic Thunder is better than Old Star.

[@TinchoRinaldi2023mar]

"Under A Funeral Moon" is better than "A Blaze......"or "Transilvanian Hunger" and "Arctic Thunder" is excellent also, "Old Star" is one of the weakest.

[@spencergrady5501]

Yeah, sell it to the gypsies - they love melted down Darkthrone albums... for me, my favourite is either Panzerfaust or Transylvanian Hunger

[@Hrvo182]

I listened to a lot of punk in high school and I enjoy their speed metal/crust punk era, even though my list wouldn't be too different from yours because those albums just objectively rank below the rest of their catalogue in terms of musicianship. FOAD is just a "meh..." album, no two ways about it.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

F.O.A.D.; that's what I get when buying a record from a squirrely band with a massive catalog, based on the cover art. 2nd attempt using cover art as a metric: Goatlord. Dammit

[@junkiesgummies]

For me it goes like this: 19. The cult is alive 18. Underground resistance 17. F.O.A.D 16. Circle the vagons 15. Darkthrones and black flags 14. Goatlord 13. Eternal hails 12. Arctic thunder 11. Old star 10. Total death 9. Soulside journey 8. Sardonic Wraith 7- Plaguewilder 6. Hate them NOW MY TOP 5 5 .Ravishing grimness 4. Transylvanian hunger 3. Panzerfaust 2. Under a funeral moon 1. A BLAZE IN THE NORTHETRN SKY

[@thecritters8933]

same order on the first three (y)

[@saemyt5106]

When is that alestorm vid coming

[@Questformetal]

Next week it’ll be it’s filmed already too

[@saemyt5106]

Quest For Metal im ready for that

[@navimetaldark5229]

Ganhou mais um inscrito ❤️

[@tommythetrain1945]

under a funeral moon is their purest black metal album they made even Ted said it. its so obvious that it is. its disgusting af! best bm album my fav.

[@BERNDSBG]

Releasing a demo rehearsal recorded on a tape deck with sick AF vocals added 3 years later is so fucking black metal (even if the riffs themselves are DM). The thing is a grower with a lot of relistening value. It is NOT better than the eternal beauty that is TH and the pieces of that which have crept into Panzerfaust, but it is high enough in my list that it is probably controversial 1) TH 2) Panzerfaust 3) Goatlord 4) Total Death (cannot understand the hate) 5) ABFTNS 6) UAFM 7) Astral Fortress 8) Soulside Journey 9) cannot decide on the rest

[@xFallnessx]

Hardship of the Scots 🤘🏻absolutely

[@MoonlapseOpethian]

We have the EXACT same ranking.

[@MoonlapseOpethian]

Kidding.

[@vampmode9132]

1 ) Panzerfaust 2) ABITNS 3) Transylvanian Hunger 4)UAFM 5) Soulside Journey 6) Arctic Thunder 7) Total Death Don't care for any of the others

[@Anachronistic-qf1sp]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SatanBled]

Agree with top 4 but where is goat?

[@shawnlanglois5705]

Mines panzerfaust

[@brassteeth3355]

The crust stuff is their best stuff. Dungeon Shaker!!!!!

[@BeatsFromTheBong]

Honestly soulside journey is the only album I like by them.

[@BeatsFromTheBong]

@Autistic Dolphin54 I like black metal , but only the stuff that has a listenable mix.

[@mysticsaxophone4181]

Let's stir some shit up again. Under a Funeral Moon, a 3/5 album, same goes with Transilvanian. Blaze is the best, 5/5, followed by Panzerfaust and the impeccable Soulside Journey. Come at me.

[@gorehound3414]

That’s your opinion man I’d agree blaze is the best but funeral moon and Transilvanian hunger are still 5/5 albums. Soul side isn’t very good I’m sorry just generic death metal

[@mikemars2112]

@@gorehound3414 It really isn't generic death metal. It's technical and doomy, with fantastic atmosphere and not to mention a great recording.

[@goatmoonwarmaster4641]

No goatlord album 🤔

[@Flakpanzerofficial]

Your top 3 just so happens to also be my top 3 😂

[@RichardCranium.]

I disagree Soulside Journey, it should be higher. But I am also not a big fan of the crust era. You are correct to put the unholy trinity at the top, anyone who does not has shit taste. I talked to a guy who preferred new Darkthrone once, he was a loser.

[@TinchoRinaldi2023mar]

I love "Transilvanian Hunger" but I think is tottally overrated, "Under A Funeral Moon" is the best of the unholy trilogy!!

[@darkestdarker3726]

-Transilvanian Hunger -Panzerfaust -Under A Funeral Moon -A Blaze In The Norther Sky -Old Star -The Underground Resistance -Soulside Journey -Arctic Thunder -Ravishing Grimness -Hate Them -FOAD -Dark Thrones and Black Flags -The Cult Is Alive -Circle The Wagons -Plaguewielder -Total Death -Sardonic Wrath

[@DylieBeans]

Your list isn't that weird. It's pretty close to what most people would rate them. The unholy 3 always get way too much love. Those 3 aren't the best Darkthrone has done. I definitely liked seeing Ravishing Grimness pretty high up there props on that. Hate Them should be way higher imo and all the stuff after that but, it is what it is. Some people have shit taste lol.

[@Flugmorph]

crust-throne is best-throne

[@mysteriousmr.j8156]

My favorite is a blaze in the northern sky and I really don't like goat lord

[@TinchoRinaldi2023mar]

I love Darkthrone but this are their weakest albums to me: 1- Goatlord 2- Hate Them 3- Sardonic Wrath 4- Old Star

[@JaySway17]

Crust punk > black metal

[@Flugmorph]

poser ranking

[@moumouzel]

such an awesome band