Satyricon (band)

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Satyricon
Satyricon Logo.jpg

General information
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1990
Website www.satyricon.no
Founding members
Håvard "Lemarchand" Jørgensen
Vegard "Wargod"
Carl-Michael "Exhurtum" oath
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar, electric bass, keyboard
Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven (since 1991)
Drums
Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad
Live members
Electric guitar
Diogo "Yogy" Bastos
Electric guitar
Steinar "Azarak" Gundersen
Keyboard
Jonna Nikula
Electric bass
Unlike “Neddo” Odden

Satyricon is in 1990 under the name Eczema founded Black Metal - band from Norway , which exclusively from Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven and since 1994 Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad there (both not founding members were) who occasionally of guest musicians such as Tomas "Samoth" Haugen ( Emperor ), Snorre "Blackthorn" Ruch ( Thorns ) and Ted "Nocturno Culto" Skjellum ( Darkthrone ) are supported.

Singer Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven at Elbriot 2018
Drummer Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad at Rockharz 2016

Band history

After the demos All Evil and The Forest Is My Throne , Satyricon's debut album Dark Medieval Times was released in 1993 . In the 1990s, the band approached the commercial press: while Satyr “ starred in a report on racism in black metal ” in Rock Furore magazine in the early 1990s, he “received the full 'rock star' treatment in the tabloid Dagbladet 'where the two-page article focuses on the fact that Wongraven likes Italian designer clothes ”. With Rebel Extravaganza there was both a stylistic and visual change, which initially put off many fans. According to Satyr, Mayhem would not have dared to release the album Grand Declaration of War, which was released in 2000 , if Satyricon had not ensured a wider acceptance of progressive black metal with Rebel Extravaganza .

The fifth album Volcano , on which the band was supported by the Norwegian singer-songwriter Anja Garbarek , took another stylistic approach. It contained both hard rock borrowings (for example in the song Fuel for Hatred ), as well as influences from hard electronic music. The album was also awarded the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammy, the Spellemannprisen , in the category Best Metal Album .

Satyricon was also able to attract a lot of attention when she was one of the first bands from the black metal environment to sign a contract with a major label ( Virgin Records / EMI Group ). That is why the group is sometimes accused in the conservative black metal scene of having forgotten their roots and being greedy as one of the pioneers of Norwegian black metal.

In February 2006, Satyricon completed work on her sixth studio album Now, Diabolical . It was released on April 24th via Sony BMG in Norway and Roadrunner Records in Europe. June 13 was set for the US market. The album is distributed in the United States by Century Media . In addition to the bonus title Storm (of the Destroyer) , the US version also contains the music video for the title KING

On August 18, 2008, Satyricon announced that work on the new album The Age of Nero was completed. The album was released on November 3rd, the EP My Skin Is Cold was released on June 2nd and the single Black Crow on a Tombstone on October 20th . In November and December the band toured Europe and India.

In 2009 the live bass player Victor Brandt left, who was replaced by Anders "Neddo" Odden (ex-Cadaver, ex- Apoptygma Berzerk ).

Since the tour of the eighth studio album Satyricon , which began on November 7, 2013 in Copenhagen , Diogo "Yogy" Bastos, guitarist for the Luxembourg bands Scarred and Abstract Rapture, has been a live guitarist for Satyricon.

style

On the first demo All Evil Satyricon played a heavily thrash and death metal style, on the second demo The Forest Is My Throne a primitive style based on Bathory . The folk elements of the debut album Dark Medieval Times were reduced to the successor The Shadowthrone ; with this and its successor Nemesis Divina , Satyricon oriented himself towards traditional Black Metal; The Shadow Throne recalls its Nordic elements like the clean vocals and the subject in Viking country on the Viking Metal , is this not assigned. Nemesis Divina has a more brutal and intense sound and laid the foundation for the sound of their later releases that was slowly emerging. While traditional Black Metal basically swears on a puristic production, Satyricon relied on a sound that "is as sharp as a razor blade in contrast to other releases from the north". With Nemesis Divina , the compositions became more varied, complex and had a higher technical standard, the production became cleaner and clearer than many other recordings from the Norwegian black metal scene. Satyr also noted that, unlike Frost, he and Samoth are not Satanists . With Megiddo - Mother North in the Dawn of a New Age , the band became more experimental and irritated especially with a remix by Apoptygma Berzerk . The texts of the early recordings usually revolve around “Forests, castles, castles in the forest, etc.”.

From the late 1990s, the band increasingly took rock influences into their music and moved away from their original style. While the development of the band at Sputnikmusic is referred to as an approach to Black Metal of the first wave, the DeathMetal.Org website states that The Age of Nero sounds like "any groove metal with superficial Black Metal treatment". The music has been criticized as a "mass-market, catchy, mindless rock 'n' roll version of black metal," which contradicts Euronymous ' ideals and the worldview of the early scene and is far from anything that the reviewer and others are interested in this music awakened. There is “no trace of passion” in this music. “This kind of capitalist Black Metal” leads to a genre of its own. According to Gunnar Sauermann from Metal Hammer , Satyricon has become a “pseudo-black- pop (and popular) band”.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Rebel extravaganza
  NO 32 37/1999 (2 weeks)
Volcano
  NO 4th 37/2002 (3 weeks)
Now, Diabolical
  NO 2 17/2006 (14 weeks)
The Age of Nero
  NO 5 46/2008 (3 weeks)
  DE 73 December 01, 2008 (1 week)
Satyricon
  NO 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 37/2013 (6 weeks)
  DE 38 09/20/2013 (1 week)
  AT 36 09/20/2013 (1 week)
  CH 47 09/22/2013 (1 week)
Live at the Opera (with the Norwegian National Opera Chorus )
  NO 26th 19/2015 (2 weeks)
  DE 56 05/08/2015 (1 week)
Nemesis Divina
  DE 71 05/27/2016 (1 week)
  AT 57 06/03/2016 (1 week)
Deep Calleth upon Deep
  NO 7th 39/2017 (1 week)
  DE 20th 09/29/2017 (1 week)
  AT 24 06.10.2017 (1 week)
  CH 25th 10/01/2017 (1 week)
Singles
KING
  NO 7th 15/2006 (3 weeks)

Demos

Albums

Singles and EPs

Split releases

Sampler contributions

Video albums

Best-ofs and box sets

  • 1998: Picture Disc Box (box set)
  • 2002: Ten Horns - Ten Diadems (Best of / Compilation)

Web links

Commons : Satyricon  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. Review in Metal Hammer
  2. Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . Satanic Metal: The Bloody Rise from the Underground. Extended and revised edition 2005. 6th edition. ProMedia GmbH, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2005, ISBN 3-936878-00-5 , p. 287 .
  3. Thomas: Satyricon - Interview with Satyr on "Now, Diabolical" metal.de; Retrieved March 23, 2009.
  4. Vinnere / Nominerte ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Norwegian) Retrieved May 5, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spellemann.no
  5. Victor Brandt: Victor Brandt & Satyricon part ways ... April 24, 2009, accessed on November 26, 2009 (English).
  6. Satyricon hate virun e puer Deeg hiren éischte Concert from the current European tour. Mat dobäi: De Yogy vu Scarred & Abstract Rapture!
  7. Satyricon. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 19, 2012 ; accessed on December 3, 2015 .
  8. a b c Deni Petrounova: Interview with Frost from "Walls Of Fire" E'zine by Deni Petrounova (Summer-Autumn 2002). In: Walls of Fire. 2002, accessed January 8, 2010 .
  9. Satyricon. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 20, 2013 ; accessed on December 3, 2015 .
  10. a b Interview with Satyr from "Tales Of The Macabre" magazine. In: Tales of the Macabre. Retrieved January 8, 2010 .
  11. Seker: Satyricon / Enslaved: The forest is my throne / Yggdrasil. (No longer available online.) Global Domination, November 12, 2007, archived from the original on August 20, 2010 ; accessed on January 7, 2013 .
  12. psycho888999: Satyricon - The Age Of Nero (album review) .
  13. ^ A year in Norwegian metal - a purgatory of recombinations ( Memento from September 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  14. 2009, a Black Metal Year? Interview of Gunnar Sauermann  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.metalchroniques.fr  
  15. Chart sources: DE AT CH NO