No reviews on this one????????
SpacegrassMan | Insane Land of Words & Music | 11/22/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"How can there be no reviews on this! If you liked Ravishing grimness or Panzerfaust, you'll come to worship this like all Darkthrone. If anything, the entire price of the CD is worth the final track: Wreak. Like the classic, Quintessence, off Panzerfaust, this is one hell of a massive jam that will pound you into another realm when you have it cranked up. Defintely one of the Darkthrone releases that deserves a lot more praise. If you are new to Darkthrone, or like their later sound more than the early stuff, you better grab this then. Easy 5 stars from one of the Gods of Black Metal.
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Fuzzing EVILution
abyssmagazine@sapo.pt | 02/07/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Norse grim rippers are back with another devastating piece of swirling harshness & kult riffage! Indeed I was anticipating this album for a while and it is no more no less THE panzer Darkthrone we are all accustomed to hear, hail & honour! Again the listener is transported to a Void filled with hatred, utter disgust and most importantly the fuzzing garage sonority that launched Black Metal to the genre we all know today. Animalistic but definitely not awkward or clumsy the song-structures are cyclic, energetic and in many times carried by the retro-attack of Fenriz pounding drumming and Nocturno Culto genius riffs.
"Plaguewielder" is also a necessary return to previous ideas and in many ways a step back to construct what was left undone or completely not experimented before. An EVILution on the same pace as "Ravishing Grimness" but that I perceive as a constant return to the uglier origins to bring back the repressed & dirty elements of the past in order to establish the path to a darkened continuation. A move of pure dementia, but one clearly understands that! This is why every album is/has it's own reference point, exhibiting the varied faces of rawness but always belonging to the same necrotic womb.
If one were to explain Darkthrone position within the scene any further it probably wouldn't make any sense weren't they such an influential basis standing aside any trends and always a relief to the ears of the listeners, because the more do you get from them the more do you want, and one never suffers from disillusion by what this due delivers!
Other significant happenings are Fenriz lyrics being more interiorised by N. Culto and consequently better performed, the feelings sound this time more transparent and it makes the sore throat less boring and monochord. The studio work and the overall production does not really deserve too much attention here because we all know very well how Darkthrone is intended to sound, however this album is slightly more polished and as far as I'm concerned no problem or drastic change whatsoever.
The Goat gains it's complete Beast-shape when we're reaching for the end of the album. The opening riff of the second part of ""Wreak" (the last track) leaves my spine shivering with violence, it's totally grim & cold, and 100% of what Norwegian Black Metal is all about! Musical sin is again unleashed and with it a proclamation that Black Metal is not dead and will never be as long as Darkthrone exists! Abyss Magazine @ Nuno M. [CR]"
Same old DarkThrone (which is good)
Chef J | Earth | 08/23/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"DarkThrone is a lot like Bolt Thrower in a way. Different type of metal yes, but they never truly stray from their own beaten path. If you have one DarkThrone or Bolt Thrower album then you have them all. But they NEVER dissapoint. Although Soulside Journey and the almighty Transilvanian Hunger are my personal faves, every other album is classics. Plague is no exception, if you love Black Metal then do not pass this or any other DarkThrone album up. Hail!"
Track Listings (6) - Disc #1