As the legendary John Peel once said of The Fall, "Always different, always the same," the same could be said of Darkthrone. Things change, times change, people change, and yet the Norwegian black metal legends defiantly and eternally remain Darkthrone, even as they sound fresh and new, delivering just five tracks in 45 minutes on their 19th album, Eternal Hails. Since their formation in 1986 as Black Death in Kolboton, Norway, Darkthrone have been masters of their art. After ditching the death metal of 1991's debut Soulside Journey in favor of a more primitive black metal sound on the following year's A Blaze In The Northern Sky, they helped define black metal in the '90s with albums like 1993's Under A Funeral Moon and its follow-up Transilvanian Hunger. Truly, Darkthrone remain unique, even in their own canon.