Background
Darkthrone's previous album, A Blaze in the Northern Sky, is regarded as their first black metal album, although some have noted death metal traits and Fenriz stated that after the abrupt style change, if A Blaze in the Northern Sky "would be PURE black metal, it would only have 3 songs". He claimed that they began writing Under a Funeral Moon in late 1991 with the goal of creating a "pure black metal album".
The album was recorded at Creative Studios in Kolbotn during June 1992. The studio production was toned-down to achieve a sound that was more "cold" and "grim". AllMusic journalist Eduardo Rivadavia described the album's sound: "the record's songs—already shorter and more focused than those of its epic-filled predecessor—were absolutely buried under disfiguring cobwebs of fuzzy amp distortion that effectively made them sound and feel like third-generation cassette copies".
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