DARKTHRONE NWOBHM - New Wave Of Black Heavy Metal (2007) EP CD

By 2007, Darkthrone had already burned the church, buried the corpse paint, and started doing whatever the hell they wanted. NWOBHM is exactly that, a love letter to Diamond Head and Motörhead written in the blood of their own legend.

This EP marked a pivotal gear-shift in Darkthrone's trajectory, the point where Fenriz and Nocturno Culto stopped caring about black metal purism and leaned hard into the grimy, road-worn riffs of early British heavy metal. The title is the joke and the thesis at once: New Wave of Black Heavy Metal, colliding two scenes across decades with complete confidence. Four tracks, no filler, pressed in a digipak that looks as good on a shelf as it sounds through a turntable. Essential for anyone tracking the second half of their career, or anyone who thinks the NWOBHM era was the last time heavy metal had real dirt under its fingernails.

Format: Mini Album EP, CD Digipak. Origin: Norway, 2007 pressing.

Fans of: Motörhead, Celtic Frost, Venom, early Bathory.