Under a Funeral Moon is the third studio album by Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone. It was recorded in June 1992 and released on 15 February 1993 by Peaceville Records. Written and recorded to create a "pure black metal album", it is the second of what is dubbed the band's "Unholy Trinity", with A Blaze in the Northern Sky and Transilvanian Hunger. Drummer and songwriter Fenriz said that Darkthrone began writing Under a Funeral Moon in late 1991 to create a "pure black metal album".
The album was recorded at Creative Studios in Kolbotn in June 1992. The band used the studio production to create a sound that was more "cold" and "grim".
Release
Under a Funeral Moon was released by Peaceville on 15 February 1993. The cover artwork featured vocalist Nocturno Culto, who regards the writing and recording of the album as the foundation for Darkthrone's later work.
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In his retrospective review of the album, Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic called Under a Funeral Moon "essential black metal listening". He wrote that it "built upon the radical career reinvention undertaken on the previous year's A Blaze in the Northern Sky" and noted that it is considered "the second volume in Darkthrone's so-called 'unholy trinity' of form- and era-defining black metal albums".