After forging the templates of black metal and Viking metal in the ’80s and early ’90s, this Swedish institution went on to deliver grit-caked, one-man-band, thrash-metal brutality on 2001’s Destroyer of Worlds. Quorthon opens with Viking-esque acoustic guitar on “Lake of Fire,” then sings his voice raw on the title track over battering-ram drums and a chorus of devil moans. “Kill Kill Kill” features supercharged riffs caked in motorcycle exhaust, while “White Bones” traverses shiny guitar harmonics and face-mauling distortion.
Other Versions
- 13 Songs
- 13 Songs
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- Goatwhore
- Enslaved
- Carpathian Forest
- Carcass
- Entombed
- Death
- Gorgoroth