Old Star

Old Star is the 17th studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone, released on 31 May 2019, by Peaceville Records.^[3] The album represented another drastic musical shift for the band, now featuring a doom metal style in the vein of Candlemass, combined with the band's more recent "blackened heavy metal" sound.

Old Star
Studio album by Darkthrone
Released	31 May 2019
Recorded	October – 24 November 2018[1][2]
Studio	Necrohell II Studios
Genre	Black metal doom metal heavy metal
Length	38:10
Label	Peaceville
Producer	Nocturno Culto
Darkthrone chronology
Arctic Thunder (2016) Old Star (2019) Eternal Hails...... (2021)

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"I Muffle Your Inner Choir"	Nocturno Culto	6:26
2.	"The Hardship of the Scots"	Fenriz	7:36
3.	"Old Star"	Nocturno Culto	4:28
4.	"Alp Man"	Fenriz	5:27
5.	"Duke of Gloat"	Nocturno Culto	6:49
6.	"The Key Is Inside the Wall"	Fenriz	7:24
Total length:			38:10

All lyrics are written by Fenriz^[4]

Personnel

Darkthrone^[5][6]

• Nocturno Culto – vocals, guitar, bass, production
• Fenriz – drums, lyrics

Additional personnel

• Sanford Parker – mixing
• Jack Control – mastering
• Chadwick St. John – cover art

Charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[7]	23
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[8]	110
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[9]	146
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[10]	10
French Albums (SNEP)[11]	171
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12]	27
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[13]	18
Scottish Albums (OCC)[14]	24
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[15]	43
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16]	41