Secondly, what Fenriz and Ted create now is just black-and-roll that's taken more inspiration from lo-fi production and the punk/thrash aesthetics from the mid 1980s. If you expect two guys who were in their late teens and early 20s when they created some of the best black metal to still have the same feelings, thoughts and emotions they did then now that they're both 40, and create the same style of music, you're an idiot.
People listen to more music, have more experiences with creating new riffs, drum patterns, but you just want a rehash of 'A Blaze in the Northern Sky'? How fucking ignorant are you? Just go listen to the original album again. Nothing Darkthrone has done has been an affront to their legacy or their own roots. Fenriz has admitted to listening to punk and hardcore albums since he was a teenager and has admitted, most recently on the Total Death reissue commentary, that thrash metal is still the genre that appeals to him the most, so why the fuck do you think their latest albums have a sound that reverberates more with their own tastes?
However, they've still worked within the trappings of traditional metal sounds. Nothing on FOAD or Circle the Wagons sounds as if it's a complete separate entity from the sounds you can hear on other metal albums.
Fucking Swedes, man.
