The Cult is Alive is the eleventh album by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band, Darkthrone

Darkthrone

Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

. Released in 2006, this album represents a great shift in the band's style, as they incorporate more punk and crust punk

Crust punk

Crust punk is a form of music influenced by anarcho-punk, hardcore punk and extreme metal. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in England, often has songs with dark and pessimistic lyrics that linger on political and social ills...

 traits than before. While the band's black metal roots are still evident, their shift from the genre's typical sound is much more noticeable. Commenting on the style of the album, drummer Fenriz

Fenriz

Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...

 has stated "Call it black metal or evil rock, I don't care..."

Track listing

1. "The Cult of Goliath" – 4:02
2. "Too Old, Too Cold" – 3:04
3. "Atomic Coming" – 4:51
4. "Graveyard Slut" – 4:04
5. "Underdogs and Overlords" – 4:02
6. "Whisky Funeral" – 3:59
7. "De underjordiske (Ælia Capitolina)" (Those of the Underground) – 3:14
8. "Tyster på Gud" (Hushing on God) – 3:09
9. "Shut Up" – 4:46
10. "Forebyggende krig" (Preemptive War) – 3:41

Credits

• Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Fenriz
  Fenriz
  Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , vocals on "Graveyard Slut", backing vocals on "Forebyggende krig", rhythm guitar on "Tyster på Gud"

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Norwegian Albums Chart	22