Old Star announced

In March 2019, Darkthrone announced the release of their seventeenth studio album, Old Star , which came out on 31 May of the same year. The album featured a stronger emphasis on doom metal than previous releases, with their Candlemass influences becoming more apparent. In January 2021, the band announced they had completed the recording of a new album. In April 2021, a box set containing early and rare material titled Shadows of Iconoclasm was unveiled. The band’s eighteenth studio album, Eternal Hails…… , was released on 25 June 2021, through Peaceville Records on physical media and digital platforms. The album continued the band’s incorporation of traditional doom metal, heavily influenced by Candlemass, alongside inspiration from other bands such as Trouble and Black Sabbath . The band’s nineteenth album, Astral Fortress , was released on 28 October 2022. The band’s twentieth album, It Beckons Us All……. , was released on 26 April 2024. It was recorded in the previous April and May at Chaka Khan Studio in Oslo. In March 2026, it was announced that band’s next album Pre-Historic Metal , would be released in May of that year.