With this invocation - a statement of intent, a call to arms, a prophecy for the next thousand years - the cacophony of Norwegian black metal began in earnest, the furious "Kathaarian Life Code" spewing forth as A Blaze in the Northern Sky "officially" kick-started the movement. Black metal was resurrected, death metal was actually dead, and the existence of the true underground of roughshod anticommercialism that worshipped Satan and death was secured. Murder and arson to follow!
That's the soundbite version, anyway, and with a cursory examination I suppose it's true: of all the landmark (Norwegian) black metal from 1992, Darkthrone's "debut" (we'll get to this later) was the first... by a month: A Blaze... dropped on 26 February, and Burzum's debut followed in March, with a full-length from Immortal and a demo from Emperor later in July. That's to say nothing of Mayhem's legendary Live in Leipzig, which, though not officially pressed until '93, had already been recorded over a year prior, with tape dubs promptly distributed to close associates by main man, guitarist, and scene king Euronymous.