Darkthrone: As Wolves Among Sheep… Live in Oslo ’90

Darkthrone’s As Wolves Among Sheep… Live In Oslo ’90 arrives for Record Store Day 2026 on 18 April 2026 as a limited petrol blue LP through Peaceville. Retail listings describe it as a printed-inner release and Rough Trade states it is limited to 3,000 copies. The Australian RSD list also confirms the title and format as a 180g LP.

What makes this one genuinely exciting is that it is not just another repackaged Darkthrone item. This is a rare 1990 live recording, drawn from the period around Soulside Journey and Goatlord, long before the band’s legend fully calcified around second-wave black metal. That means this release captures Darkthrone in a very different form: death metal rooted, filthy, and still becoming the monster they would later become. Retail descriptions lean into exactly that angle, calling it an ultra-rare performance from the classic Soulside Journey and Goatlord period.

As a review, that is the real hook. This is not the Darkthrone of icy minimalism and necro-black austerity. This is a younger, uglier, more physical Darkthrone, and there is something great about hearing them in that transitional zone. The setlist is all killer, no wandering. “Cromlech,” “Soulside Journey,” “Possessed,” “Hearses,” “Nor the Silent Whispers,” and “Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia” make this feel less like a novelty live record and more like a document of a band on the edge of transformation. For anyone into the early death metal side of Darkthrone, this is the sort of release that actually matters because it adds texture to the story instead of repeating the obvious chapters.