Fenriz, drummer and songwriter with legendary Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone, yesterday issued a brief statement to Antihumanism.com via the band’s official myspace page.

In it, he angrily claimed that we were wrong for insisting seminal Darkthrone albums such as “Under a Funeral Moon” are far superior to more recent gimmicky efforts like “F.O.A.D.”.

He went on to state that he wrote and recorded the influential masterpiece, “Transilvanian Hunger”, in just two weeks, whereas it now took him two or three months to write a single track for poorly conceived travesties like “Dark Thrones and Black Flags”. ’90s black metal is easy and more or less for little kids’, he added.

Finally, in a John McEnroe style outburst of childish boo-hooing, he demanded that we ‘go die’.
 
In response, Antihumanism.com would like to say that, like Tom G. Warrior once did (before he saw sense), Fenriz has forgotten that it was the incredible and visionary music of his early years that founded his reputation and status in the international metal scene.
It is those classic albums that have remained firm favourites since the early 1990′s, while their latest releases will quickly fade into nothingness by 2010, once the novelty has worn off.

But while he still has new product to shift, Fenriz will sadly continue to dismiss his early work as mere juvenalia, rather than admit that he lost his way artistically many years ago.

There will be those who claim in their defence that ‘Darkthrone have always done what they want’. This is patently untrue, and also, condones the sort of liberal, destructive humanist behaviour that we at Antihumanism.com condemn utterly as the cancerous tumour at the heart of modern artistic endeavour and society as a whole.
‘Doing whatever you want’ is the mantra of businessmen who want you to consume and buy and act however you like, with no regard for the consequences of those actions because that brings them the greatest profit. This is not an ideology compatible with the early 90′s black metal of Darkthrone.   

To understand why ”Transilvanian Hunger” is hailed as a great work of art, while the likes of “Ravishing Grimness” are not, click here.