That new Darkthrone sounds alright. I'm not gonna listen to it because I have plenty of GOOD Darkthrone material that I don't listen to enough, but the brief clips on Spotify are pleasantly surprising (don't care to make an account to listen to the whole thing). I haven't been paying attention to what they've been up to since maybe the 3rd time they went to the well on making highly self-aware Too Old Too Cold bullshit.
The same goes for the new Pestilence. Sounds fine, never gonna listen to it.
Darkthrone fortunately got away from that thing they started with FOAD, and their last three albums (counting this one) are good enough imo. Sure, they are not A Blaze or Ravishing. But much better than Circle the Wagons and surrounding albums/eps. Too Old was still good to me anyway, the bad came later. Anyway, this new one sounds a bit more technical and more different in atmosphere I think and I appreciate that for once. It's not Soulside Journey, it's not Transylvanian Hunger either, and it needs not be either of those. It's just the same people making music with the same name after a huge count of years, but I'm enjoying it since, as I said, Arctic Thunder.
I think the previous one by Pestilence is and sounds better.
Both should be on bandcamp by now, btw. No account needed to listen to the full things. Yep (edit- here you can only listen to the single atm):
Not linking Pestilence because so far I'm finding it boring.