Sardonic Wrath

Sardonic Wrath is the 10th album by the Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. It was released by Moonfog Productions in 2004, and was the band's last album on that record label. Although punk influences were already apparent, it would be Darkthrone's last album recorded solely in the black metal style. Their subsequent albums featured much stronger punk traits. However, Einar Sjursø observed in Terrorizer that "even if there is a certain punk attitude to the odd riff here and there" it is a case of "the diabolic duo [Fenriz and Nocturno Culto]...simply drawing more influences into the Darkthrone melting pot, turning them into crystalline Darkthrone riffs [author's emphasis]".

The entire album was leaked on the Internet beginning in April 2004, long before the September 2004 release date. However, the final release of the album was considerably different from version on the Internet leak.

On the song "Hate is the Law", vocals were performed by Fenriz and Apollyon. Oddly, the closing song, "Rawness Obsolete", was listed on many lyric sites as an instrumental. This can be attributed to the lack of any printed lyrics in the accompanying booklet.