Sons of Northern Darkness
| Sons of Northern Darkness | ||||
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| Released | 4 February 2002 | |||
| Recorded | September 2001 | |||
| Studio | The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 50:08 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Peter Tägtgren | |||
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Sons of Northern Darkness is the seventh album by Norwegian black metal band Immortal. This was the band's first release on Nuclear Blast Records and the last to feature Iscariah on bass, who admitted to only playing bass on opening track "One by One". The rest of the album's bass tracks were played by vocalist/guitarist Abbath in what would be his last contribution on bass before departing in 2015.
The album was released in multiple formats, including a standard CD, a limited edition four-panel digipak, a limited edition metal box, a "Deluxe Edition" digipak with a bonus DVD, a picture disc, a gatefold double LP, and a quadruple 10" leather box. The limited edition metal box was only available via Nuclear Blast mail order and was sold out before it was actually released.
The song "In My Kingdom Cold" references the H.P. Lovecraft story At the Mountains of Madness.
"One by One" was featured in the soundtrack of the 8th installment in the Tony Hawk's video game series, Tony Hawk's Project 8, released in 2006.