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When did Darkthrone's first album release?

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Darkthrone's first album Thulcandra released in 1989.


A massively-influential Norwegian metal band, Darkthrone pioneered black metal in its infancy as a genre. They continue to have a consistent output of metal genre-crossing albums.

The band was formed in late 1986 in Kolbotn, a small town south of Oslo, Norway. Darkthrone started as a death metal band under the name of Black Death whose members... Read More
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