IMMORTAL Sons Of Northern Darkness Vinyl ( 2002-2015)

Abbath and Horgh doing what they do best: riffs that feel like frostbite, drums that sound like an avalanche, and an album that turned a lot of hesitant metal heads into full-blown black metal converts. Sons of Northern Darkness is the record where Immortal proved they could write for the ages without softening a single edge.

Released in 2002 and sitting comfortably as one of the genre's more accessible entry points without ever being watered down, this is Norwegian black metal at its most cinematic. The imagery, the atmosphere, the sheer weight of tracks like Antarctica and One By One, it's the kind of record that makes you want to live somewhere with more mountains and less sunlight. A genuine pillar of the genre, and one that still sounds enormous on wax.

Standard black vinyl pressing, 2015 reissue. Handled with care, priced to move.

Fans of: Mayhem, Darkthrone, Abbath, Tsjuder, Bathory, Taake, 1349, Inquisition