darkthrone组建于1986年，当时的乐队成员是gylve nagell（鼓手兼词作者），ted skjellum（吉它兼主唱）ivar enger（吉它）dag nilsen（贝斯）。乐队以black/death的风格初次呈现在舞台上。乐队早期曾录制过3张demo，《land of frost》，《thulcandra》，《cromlech》和一张母带《a new dimension》。随后，乐队与英国的死亡金属先锋公司peaceville签下了和约并发表了他们的第一张专辑《soulside journey》。此张专辑的风格是典型的激进的斯墈迪那维亚式死亡金属（象entombed）。 Country of origin: Norway Location: Kolbotn, Viken (early); Oslo (mid); Vinterbro, Viken / Trysil, Innlandet (later) Status: Active Formed in: 1987 Genre: Death Metal (early); Black Metal (mid); Black/Heavy/Speed Metal (later) Lyrical themes: Anti-religion, Satan, Occultism, Rebellion, Metal Current label: Peaceville Records Years active: 1986-1987 (as Black Death), 1987-present Darkthrone started as a death metal band, but by the end of 1990 and the beginning of 1991, when they were rehearsing the material that would eventually become Goatlord, Nocturno Culto, Zephyrous, and Fenriz developed interest in black metal. Soon they decided to abort the Goatlord sessions because the material didn't reflect what they felt, and started to compose the songs that were to be found on A Blaze in the Northern Sky. Dag Nilsen was the only member who still wanted to play technical death metal, so he recorded the basslines for A Blaze in the Northern Sky and then left the band. The band's name was inspired by a Danish zine from around 1985/86 called Blackthorn, written by the guys from the Danish band DesExult, as well as by the lyrics of the Celtic Frost song "Jewel Throne" (I'm the king, sitting in the dark hiding from the shadows of the wind/.../ As I gaze from the Jewel Throne to the portal of infinity). Darkthrone are known for the fact that there have only been very few live appearances for various reasons. The very last concert to date took place in 1996, being a one-off event as well. According to the December 2007 issue of Decibel Magazine, the band's logo was designed by Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates. This was confirmed by Lindberg himself in a 2014 interview with the MetalSucks Podcast.