Search - DarkThrone :: Preparing for War (W/Dvd) (Spec)

Great Collection

Wesley_N | Ripley, WV USA | 10/23/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Disc 1- Tracks 1, 4, and 14 from "Transylvanian Hunger", Tracks 5 and 11 from "A blaze in the northern sky", tracks 6 and 10 from "Soulside journey", tracks 9 and 13 from "Under a Funeral Moon" track 2 from "A New Dimension" demo 1988, Track 3 from "Thulcandra" demo 1989, Tracks 7 and 8 recorded live in Oslo 1989, track 15 from "Cromlech" demo 1989



Review- Good selection of songs off of their LP releases, along with some nice demo and live songs (Snowfall, 9:04 instrumental, is the highlight of the disc IMO) The live and demo songs have decent production, nothing painful to the ears.



Disc 2-Tracks 1 and 2 from "Thulcandra" demo 1989, tracks 3-5 from "Cromlech" demo 1989, Track 6 from "Goatlord" session 1990, tracks 7-10 from "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" rehearsal 1991, tracks 11-13 from "Under a Funeral Moon" rehearsal 1992.



more demos, along with rehearsal tracks, The rehearsal tracks for "A blaze in the northen sky" are instrumental, and the "Under a Funeral Moon" rehearsals have vocals, but the production isn't that well on them, the drums sound...different, and loud next to the guitar. When listening to Under a Funeral Moon, be sure to turn down the volume at around 1:26, I dunno who done what but there is a deafening ringing that happens for around 6 or 7 seconds, then goes away.



Disc 3-Live performances from Oslo and Finland, plus interviews and picture gallery.



I haven't watched all of the live footage, some of it is good, some of it is...ehh. The interviews, correct me if i'm wrong, were released in parts on the digipak re-releases of the darkthrone albums, and the gallery has a couple of nice photos.



I wouldn't prefer this to any newcomer to Darkthrone, instead get the older albums (Under a Funeral Moon, Blaze in the Northern Sky, etc.) but to fans this is a really nice set, even the booklet has some nice info in it."