Darkthrone

Of all the major second-wave black metal bands to emerge from Norway's fertile breeding grounds during the early 1990s, only a handful -- Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, and Ulver -- have achieved the same exalted status and international recognition as Darkthrone. Unlike most of their peers, Darkthrone largely refused to deviate from its straightforward and savage black metal formula once it was established, leaving it to others to evolve the genre in eclectic directions. Dubbed the "unholy trinity," the band's first three black metal albums, A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992), Un...