Picture Disc. Over the course of 30 years, Norway's Darkthrone have become a staple of the global black metal genre, forging a legacy as one of the most renowned and influential bands in it's illustrious and often infamous history. In their formative years, Darkthrone initially started making their mark with a strong concoction of thrash and then death/doom metal experimentation, before the debut album Soulside Journey was unleashed in 1991. Never ones to follow convention or stand still even then, the band soon embraced a much darker, more primitive form of expression with the now iconic second album A Blaze in the Northern Sky, and the rest became history.