Stereogum skriver om Darkthrone 's album Transilvanian Hunger:
"Hunger is the final chapter of Darkthrone's Unholy Trinity, and by many accounts, the most accessible of all their black metal albums — though we're speaking in relative terms here; it's still a murky, scathing work. That relative accessibility comes mostly due to the riffs — probably the catchiest of the band's early career — and their presentation: Fenriz plays the same rudimentary drumbeat for the first half of the album, and the guitars churn, swirl, and cascade, repeating patterns and melodies set to a single rhythm, building to a hypnotic blur that can be totally mesmerizing, transporting, and meditative. On the two albums prior to this one, Darkthrone was trying to create ever-colder, -grimmer sounds, but Transilvanian Hunger is the band's only album to truly capture the darkness of winter, the terrifying enormity of the Norwegian wilderness."