Stereogum skriver om Darkthrone 's album Soulside Journey:
"As an early Swedish death metal album (recorded by a Norwegian band), Soulside Journey is totally worthwhile. The performances are uniformly excellent; the sound is crisp, crushing, full, and eerie. Still, it suffers in comparison to the two bodies of work to which it is naturally compared: (1) Darkthrone's own catalog, which includes some of black metal's defining documents; and (2) the classics of Swedish death metal — from Entombed's Left Hand Path to Dismember's Like An Ever Flowing Streamto At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul — which include some of death metal's defining documents. Soulside Journey is much better and more valuable than a mere curiosity, however, and it's tempting to wonder about the current state of the alternate reality in which Darkthrone continued on this path. But it's hard to imagine that reality being superior to the one in which we now live."