Stereogum skriver om Darkthrone 's album Dark Thrones And Black Flags:
"Fortunately, the songs often feel enriched by their imperfections. Both bandmates seem to be playing with energy, abandon, and heart — furthermore, by now, the songs (an even 50-50 Fenriz-Culto split) just feel weird, in the best possible way: primitive in texture, tone, and structure, but almost meta in their retro-worship. Fenriz's vocals are truly an acquired taste — he's plainly sincere, but it still sounds like he's got to be kidding. That, too, adds to the album's astonishing strangeness. And as he did on F.O.A.D., Fenriz is railing against modern metal, and encouraging Darkthrone fans to be equally suspicious — or to fuck off. As he sings in the album's first track, "The Winds They Called The Dungeon Shaker":
We are older and wiser and the underground thrives/ [But] posers are the same with their metal lies/ In a seance of insanity with maniacal screams/ Does your metal knows what metal really means?"