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| | Ink 19 :: Thyrfing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | Early on, with their eponymous debut in 1998, Thyrfing practiced a strain of Viking metal that cobbled together an early-'90s Norse fl attack with those rousing, pint- and sword-raising melodies Wotan'd be proud of — imminently enjoyable, but maybe a bit too enamoured with Blood Fire Death-era Bathory. |
 | | Well, Thyrfing (pronounce "surfing" with a mouthful of coleslaw) still craft hymns to the olden ones, but on their latest Urkraft offering, the Swedish sextet up-ratchets their craft more than a few notches, lathering on a goodly deal of atmospherics, ornamentation, and variation to an already tightly wound sound. |
 | | At the end of the day, though, Thyrfing are still a record or two short of upping the ante on the absolutely unfuckwithable Enslaved, or at the very least, Mithotyn or Einherjer, but they're sure to please hordes of berzerkers the world over, this writer included. |
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