Article by Satyricon

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Country: Norway

Status: Active

Time: 1990-

Biography

Satyricon is a Norwegian Black Metal band known mostly for their first album, Dark Medieval Times, which the band credit with starting a Black metal sub-genre of Medieval Metal. The album showed off the fascination Satyricon had with the Middle Ages, along with the extreme metal mixed with acoustic guitar and flute. The album has been praised for both its beauty as well as its brutality.
The next album, The Shadowthrone was basically the same as the first, except for the absence of the flute. The next album, titled Nemesis Divina had a more extreme feel to it, as well as a Battle Metal overtone to it. The next full album was a huge departure from the last ones. Titled, Rebel Extravaganza, it had an urban feel to it, along with some examples from Industrial Music. This had many fans up in arms and angry: their beloved band turning into what they thought was just another Industrial Metal band, like Static-X or Fear Factory. Their next album was Volcano which was very different from their older albums. It had a Hard Rock song, named, "Fuel For Hatred", and other examples from Electronic, Hard Rock, and Industrial music.
While Volcano was depicted to be very different by a lot of fans/former fans, the frontman of the band, Satyr, states in a press release/biography, published on their homepage, that indeed "the music is rock based but more extreme; it is black metal pushing the boundaries that began with bands like Venom and Bathory, reinventing ourselves based on a foundation of rock oriented Black Metal is our philosophy. " By reinventing themselves they have gained the respect of many in the music world. This resulted in a total of 4 Awards for Volcano being, the Norwegian Grammy for "Best Metal Album", an Alarm award for "Fuel For Hatred" in the category for "Song of the Year", as well as The Alarm Award for "Metal Album of the Year" and not the least, The Oslo awards for "Best Overall Album".
They have toured with Pantera, among others.

Discography

Studio releases

Dark Medieval Times - (1993)

The Shadowthrone - (1994)

Nemesis Divina - (1996)

Megiddo EP - (1997)

Intermezzo II EP - (1999)

Rebel Extravaganza - (1999)

Volcano - (2002)

Live and compilation releases

The Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrassil CD - (1995)

Picture Disc Box Set - (1998)

Ten Horns - Ten Diadems Compilation - (2002)

Demos and bootlegs

Satyricon Demo - (1992)

The Forest Is My Throne Demo - (1992)

Videography

Mother North VHS - (1996)

Roadkill Extravaganza VHS/DVD - (2001)

Band members

Current members

Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Bass - (1990-)

Frost (Kjetil Haraldstad) - Drums - (1992-)

Former members

Kveldulv (Ted Skjellum) - Guitar - (1996)

Lemarchand (Håvard Sørensen) - Guitar - (1990-1992)

Samoth (Tomas Haugen) - Bass - (1993-1996)

Wargod (Vegard Blomberg) - Bass - (1990-1993)

Exhurtum (Carl-Michael Eide) - Drums - (1990-1992)

External links

Satyricon Official Homepage

Satyricon Unofficial Homepage

Satyricon Lyrics