Northern Chaos Gods | ||||
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Released | 6 July 2018 | |||
Recorded | January 2017 – January 2018 [1] [2] | |||
Studio | The Abyss (Pärlby, Sweden), Conclave Studio (Bergen, Norway) [3] | |||
Genre | Black metal | |||
Length | 42:14 | |||
Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
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Northern Chaos Gods is the ninth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Immortal. The album was released on 6 July 2018. [4] This is the first album after the departure of Abbath from the band [5] and their first studio album in almost nine years since All Shall Fall (2009), marking the longest gap between two studio albums by Immortal. It is also the first Immortal album to feature Demonaz on vocals and the first one since Blizzard Beasts (1997) to feature him on guitar, and their final album to feature Horgh on drums before being dismissed from the band following a legal dispute with Demonaz over ownership of the band's name. Peter Tägtgren played bass on this album. In an interview before the album's release, Demonaz said he wanted to make the album as "grim, dark and cold as possible". [6]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 76/100 [7] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metal Hammer | [8] |
Metal Injection | [9] |
Consequence Of Sound | 8.3/10 [10] |
Kerrang! | |
Exclaim! | [11] |
The Independent | [12] |
Metal Storm | [13] |
All tracks are written by Demonaz.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Northern Chaos Gods" | 4:25 |
2. | "Into Battle Ride" | 3:50 |
3. | "Gates to Blashyrkh" | 4:38 |
4. | "Grim and Dark" | 5:27 |
5. | "Called to Ice" | 5:06 |
6. | "Where Mountains Rise" | 5:51 |
7. | "Blacker of Worlds" | 3:43 |
8. | "Mighty Ravendark" | 9:14 |
Total length: | 42:14 |
Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
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Decibel | Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2018 | 8 |
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] | 17 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] | 39 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] | 57 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [18] | 17 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [19] | 2 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [20] | 33 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [21] | 16 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] | 44 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] | 9 |
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