The Forest Is My Throne
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1993 |
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March 27 and 28, 1993 |
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MC |
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Title (number) |
3 |
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17:31 |
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The Forest Is My Throne is the second demo recording by the Norwegian metal band Satyricon . It was released on cassette in 1993 and was re-released in 1995 along with the demo recording Yggdrasill by the Viking metal band Enslaved .
Emergence
In contrast to All Evil , Satyr took over the composition and "cleaned up" Satyricon's style, which previously had Death and Thrash Metal elements and was now more oriented towards the emerging Nordic Black Metal . The music and lyrics were written by Satyr in 1992 and recorded in Skoklefald on March 27 and 28, 1993. On the insert of the original, Lemarchand (bass and acoustic guitar) and Frost (drums) are mentioned as guest musicians, on the re-release only Satyr and Frost are mentioned and in the case of the latter, it is not mentioned that he was still a guest musician at the time.
For the re-release, The Night of the Triumphator was recorded on October 15 and 17, 1995 as a tribute to some of Satyricon's pioneers.
Track list
- Black Winds - 07:07
- The Forest Is My Throne - 5:00 am
- Min hyllest til vinterland (Skogsvandring i mørket) - 05:24
Music style and lyrics
In contrast to the previous demo, the Death and Thrash Metal elements have moved into the background. Seker from the webzine Global Domination describes the style as black-metal-influenced folk metal with an epic song structure; the pieces are more like riff collages than well-written compositions. According to the band themselves, The Forest Is My Throne helped shape Satyricon, but according to Seker, it wasn't until their second album, The Shadowthrone , that the band found their own style. The guitar playing is “ethereal and floating”, the riffs are typical of Black Metal of the 1990s and range between “ Celtic Frost's chromatic bends and Bathory's epic gallop”. Drummer Frost also compared the style to Bathory. The bass largely follows the guitar playing. The style "is pretty much what one would expect from Satyricon's early work". The lyrics revolve around “Forests, castles, castles in the forest, etc.”, as is common on early recordings by the band.
layout
The cover of the cassette shows satyr with corpsepaint and a torch in the forest. When it was re-released, the cover was surrounded by a frame, which was decorated with flames and the band's logo.
reception
According to Seker from the webzine Global Domination , the production is “great”, but it's a shame that the band didn't have the right compositional skills yet. The tempo changes are awkward and in places embarrassing; for a groove-heavy band like Satyricon this could be the kiss of death, but Satyr manages to save the compositions with his feel for melodies and Frost does his best to save the music from collapsing during the awkward tempo changes. He preferred the melodic style on Nemesis Divina to the epic of these recordings, but they were worth listening to, if only for historical reasons. Seker described the production as raw, but well suited to the material; this is good, but not as good as their debut Dark Medieval Times or the follow-up The Shadowthrone , and the release is not a good start for people who do not know the band. Herjulf from Vönger Musikmagazin called The Forest Is My Throne a “ must-attend event”. “With a slightly better sound, the two old pieces 'Black Winds' and 'The Forest Is My Throne' would certainly have done well on 'Dark Medieval Times'.” However, he would have preferred “to have instead of the Enslaved stuff would have put 'All Evil', the first demo, on it. Even if it is certainly not 'representative' of Satyricon, as Mr Wongraven says in the booklet (it was recorded in a different line-up); - at least then I could have saved the money for that shitty 'All Evil Baroeg' bootleg . ”According to K.Huckins from Deadtide.com , the songs are pretty good and show that the band would be independent; Frost's drumming is sometimes clumsy, which shows that he was once human. Only the long instrumental piece Min hyllest til vinterland is irritating .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Forest Is My Throne. Satyricon, archived from the original on March 19, 2012 ; accessed on January 7, 2013 .
- ↑ SATYRICON (NORWAY). Demo Archives, accessed on January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Seker: Satyricon / Enslaved: The forest is my throne / Yggdrasil. Global Domination, November 12, 2007, archived from the original on August 20, 2010 ; accessed on January 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Deni Petrounova: Satyricon. Walls of Fire, accessed January 24, 2013 .
- ^ A History Of Norwegian Black Metal. Norwegian Black Metal, archived from the original on April 16, 2012 ; accessed on January 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Steve Hoeltzel: Satyricon - The Forest Is My Throne / Enslaved - Yggdrasill. Chronicles of Chaos, October 5, 1996, accessed January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Herjulf: Enslaved / Satyricon # The Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrasill. Vönger Musikmagazin, April 7, 2005, accessed on January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ K. Huckins: Satyricon, "The Forest is my Throne". Deadtide.com, accessed January 24, 2013 .