Satyricon (band)
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Satyricon is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label (EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

).

Biography

Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral (Carl-Michael Eide) and Wargod. Ulver (Haavard) and Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) soon joined them. Satyricon's current drummer, Frost, who joined the band in 1992, has appeared in 1349
1349 (band)
1349 is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1997. Their name comes from the year the Black Death reached Norway.- History :1349 formed in 1997 and comprises several former members of the band Alvheim...

, Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin is an extreme metal band from Trondheim, Norway formed in 1993. The group's early lineup consisted of Ghash on vocals, Obsidian C. on guitars and keyboards, Warach on bass, and Vyl on drums. They released two albums under this lineup: Through Times of War in 1997, and Agnen: A...

, Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen. Formed in 1992 by Infernus , the band is named after the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The group is currently signed to Regain Records and have released...

, and Gehenna
Gehenna (band)
-Biography:Gehenna was formed in January, 1993 by original members Sanrabb, Dolgar, and Sir Vereda. Their first demo, entitled Black Seared Heart, was recorded between the 3rd and 7 June 1993 in Soundsuite Studios, and was released as a cassette...

. Members of many other black metal bands have contributed to Satyricon either in the studio or live, including Samoth
Samoth
Samoth is a prominent musician and multi-instrumentalist in the Norwegian black metal scene. He was well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor, as well as his formation of the death metal band Zyklon...

 and Ihsahn
Ihsahn
Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

 of Emperor
Emperor (band)
Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

, Fenriz
Fenriz
Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...

 and Nocturno Culto
Nocturno Culto
Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...

 of Darkthrone
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

, and Obsidian C. of Keep of Kalessin.

The band's first album Dark Medieval Times
Dark Medieval Times
Dark Medieval Times is the debut album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Satyr.#"Walk the Path of Sorrow" – 8:18#"Dark Medieval Times" – 8:11#"Skyggedans" – 3:55...

showed off the fascination Satyricon had with the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

 and featured raw black metal blastbeats produced by Frost, mixed with acoustic guitar and flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

. On their next album, The Shadowthrone
The Shadowthrone
The Shadowthrone is the second album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"Hvite Krists død" – 8:27#"In the Mist by the Hills" – 8:01#"Woods to Eternity" – 6:13#"Vikingland" – 5:14...

, this medieval spirit was continued. Satyricon’s third album, Nemesis Divina
Nemesis Divina
Nemesis Divina is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. This album contains the seminal fan favorite Mother North in which a video was shot for, that was shown in the American movie Spun for a few seconds. The music video opens with "Montagues and Capulets".-Track listing:*All...

was released in 1996.
Rebel Extravaganza
Rebel Extravaganza
Rebel Extravaganza is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon released in 1999.Re-released in 2006 by Nuclear Blast as with Intermezzo II tracks as a bonus....

, Satyricon’s fourth album, was released in 1999. It contained more industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 influences than the previous albums.

In April and May 2000, Satyricon toured as a supporting band for Pantera
Pantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...

. Phil Anselmo
Phil Anselmo
Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo is an American musician who is best known as the lead singer for the heavy metal band Pantera. He is currently the frontman for the Louisiana-based metal act Down. He is also the owner of Housecore Records....

 has spoken of his love for black metal numerous times, and has participated in some extreme metal projects with Satyricon frontman Satyr
Sigurd Wongraven
Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

.

Regarding one of their latest albums, Volcano
Volcano (Satyricon album)
Volcano is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. The album is one of the band's more successful records, having won several awards, including the Norwegian Grammy for "Best Metal Album," Alarm awards for "Metal Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" for "Fuel For Hatred," and an...

, frontman Satyr stated in a press release / biography on their homepage that "the music is rock based but more extreme; it is black metal pushing the boundaries that began with bands like Venom
Venom (band)
Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell and Black Metal —are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general...

 and Bathory
Bathory (band)
Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and viking metal. Quorthon remained the main songwriter and member of Bathory for more than two decades. Bathory was permanently ended after Quorthon's death in 2004...

, reinventing ourselves based on a foundation of rock oriented black metal is our philosophy." It 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 The Oslo awards for "Best Overall Album". http://www.last.fm/music/Satyricon/+wiki

Satyricon participated in the Darkthrone
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

 tribute Darkthrone Holy Darkthrone
Darkthrone Holy Darkthrone
A tribute album to the Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone, with contributions from other leading Norwegian black metal bands, this album was released in 1998 by Moonfog Productions.-Track listing:#"Kathaarian Life Code" - Satyricon...

, released by Moonfog Productions in 1998, covering the song Kathaarian Life Code. Also in 1998, Satyricon participated in the Bathory tribute In Conspiracy With Satan, released by Hellspawn/No Fashion Records, covering the song "Born for Burning". In 2006, Satyricon released Now, Diabolical
Now, Diabolical
Now, Diabolical is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. On the vinyl version, as well as on the Scarecrow Records limited edition CD of the album there is a bonus track "Storm "...

. The album was somewhat controversial among black metal fans due to its somewhat “radio friendly” take on black metal.

In March 2008, the band headlined the Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and take place at Rockefeller Music Hall.-2011:...

 in Oslo for the first time.

The EP My Skin Is Cold
My Skin Is Cold
My Skin Is Cold is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. It contains one new song, two re-mastered, and two live songs with an orchestra playing with the band.-Track listing:Disc 1 :#"My Skin is Cold" - 05:06...

is also included on their latest album, The Age of Nero
The Age of Nero
The Age of Nero is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Satyricon released on November 3, 2008 via Roadrunner Records. The release was backed by a full European headlining tour opening in Stavanger, Norway on November 12 and ending in Hamburg, Germany on December 20. Most of the...

which was released on November 3, 2008. http://satyricon.no/

Band members

Satyricon was formed by the bassist Vegard Blomberg and drummer Carl-Michael Eide
Carl-Michael Eide
Carl-Michael Eide is a Norwegian black metal musician, multi-instrumentalist , and vocalist. He is also known under stage names Aggressor, Czral and Exhurtum. He has played in various black metal and avant-garde metal bands...

. Sigurd Wongraven
Sigurd Wongraven
Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

 and Håvard Jørgensen
Håvard Jørgensen
Håvard Jørgensen, also known as Hojo and Lemarchand, is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist who has contributed in several bands and musical projects since the early '90s. Bands to mentioned are Satyricon, Ulver, SCN, C-Systems, Akki & Hojo and the genres span from black metal to pop/rock...

 both joined the band shortly after the formation, but after the recording of a single demo the two founders left the band – Eide would later go on to become drummer in Ulver
Ulver
Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...

 and guitarist in several other bands, while Blomberg changed musical style and has collaborated with e.g. Apoptygma Berzerk
Apoptygma Berzerk
Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

 – however, he returned shortly to Satyricon in 1999 as session musician where he played synthesizer on the EP Intermezzo II
Intermezzo II
Intermezzo II is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"A Moment of Clarity" – 6:40#"I.N.R.I." – 2:10 #"Nemesis Divina" – 5:15...

.

Now Wongraven and Jørgensen hired the drummer Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad
Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad
Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad , was born on June 28, 1973 in Øyer, Oppland, Norway, and is the drummer in the black metal bands Satyricon and 1349....

 as a session musician and reorded their next demo whereupon Jørgensen also left the band. Afterwards Haraldstad was 'promoted' to a permanent member of the band, and Satyricon has — with two exceptions — been a two-man band ever since: In the period 1993-1996 the guitarist Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen
Samoth
Samoth is a prominent musician and multi-instrumentalist in the Norwegian black metal scene. He was well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor, as well as his formation of the death metal band Zyklon...

 (famous as 'Samoth' from Emperor
Emperor
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

) was the bassist of Satyricon, and participated in the recording of their second album, The Shadowthrone
The Shadowthrone
The Shadowthrone is the second album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"Hvite Krists død" – 8:27#"In the Mist by the Hills" – 8:01#"Woods to Eternity" – 6:13#"Vikingland" – 5:14...

, and later in 1996 the vocalist of Darkthrone
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

, Ted Skjellum
Nocturno Culto
Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...

, became guitarist on the third full-length Satyricon album, Nemesis Divina
Nemesis Divina
Nemesis Divina is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. This album contains the seminal fan favorite Mother North in which a video was shot for, that was shown in the American movie Spun for a few seconds. The music video opens with "Montagues and Capulets".-Track listing:*All...

.
  • Satyr
    Sigurd Wongraven
    Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

     (Sigurd Wongraven
    Sigurd Wongraven
    Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

    ) – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (1990–present)
  • Frost
    Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad
    Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad , was born on June 28, 1973 in Øyer, Oppland, Norway, and is the drummer in the black metal bands Satyricon and 1349....

     (Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad) – drums, percussion (1992–present)

Past members

  • Kveldulv (Ted Skjellum – also known as Nocturno Culto
    Nocturno Culto
    Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...

     of Darkthrone
    Darkthrone
    Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

    ) – guitar (1996)
  • Lemarchand (Håvard Jørgensen
    Håvard Jørgensen
    Håvard Jørgensen, also known as Hojo and Lemarchand, is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist who has contributed in several bands and musical projects since the early '90s. Bands to mentioned are Satyricon, Ulver, SCN, C-Systems, Akki & Hojo and the genres span from black metal to pop/rock...

    ) – guitar (1990–1992)
  • Samoth
    Samoth
    Samoth is a prominent musician and multi-instrumentalist in the Norwegian black metal scene. He was well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor, as well as his formation of the death metal band Zyklon...

     (Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen) – bass, guitar (1993–1996)
  • Wargod (Vegard Blomberg) – bass (1990–1993)
  • Exhurtum (Carl-Michael Eide
    Carl-Michael Eide
    Carl-Michael Eide is a Norwegian black metal musician, multi-instrumentalist , and vocalist. He is also known under stage names Aggressor, Czral and Exhurtum. He has played in various black metal and avant-garde metal bands...

    ) – drums, percussion (1990–1992)
  • Joey Jordison
    Joey Jordison
    Joey Jordison , is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work as the drummer for the nu metal band Slipknot. He grew up in Waukee, Iowa with his parents and two sisters, and was given his first drum kit at the age of 8...

     - drums, percussion (touring while Frost was held back from going to the United States)

Studio albums

  • Dark Medieval Times
    Dark Medieval Times
    Dark Medieval Times is the debut album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Satyr.#"Walk the Path of Sorrow" – 8:18#"Dark Medieval Times" – 8:11#"Skyggedans" – 3:55...

    (1993)
  • The Shadowthrone
    The Shadowthrone
    The Shadowthrone is the second album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"Hvite Krists død" – 8:27#"In the Mist by the Hills" – 8:01#"Woods to Eternity" – 6:13#"Vikingland" – 5:14...

    (1994)
  • Nemesis Divina
    Nemesis Divina
    Nemesis Divina is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. This album contains the seminal fan favorite Mother North in which a video was shot for, that was shown in the American movie Spun for a few seconds. The music video opens with "Montagues and Capulets".-Track listing:*All...

    (1996)
  • Rebel Extravaganza
    Rebel Extravaganza
    Rebel Extravaganza is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon released in 1999.Re-released in 2006 by Nuclear Blast as with Intermezzo II tracks as a bonus....

    (1999)
  • Volcano
    Volcano (Satyricon album)
    Volcano is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. The album is one of the band's more successful records, having won several awards, including the Norwegian Grammy for "Best Metal Album," Alarm awards for "Metal Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" for "Fuel For Hatred," and an...

    (2002)
  • Now, Diabolical
    Now, Diabolical
    Now, Diabolical is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. On the vinyl version, as well as on the Scarecrow Records limited edition CD of the album there is a bonus track "Storm "...

    (2006)
  • The Age of Nero
    The Age of Nero
    The Age of Nero is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Satyricon released on November 3, 2008 via Roadrunner Records. The release was backed by a full European headlining tour opening in Stavanger, Norway on November 12 and ending in Hamburg, Germany on December 20. Most of the...

    (2008)

EPs

  • Megiddo
    Megiddo (album)
    Megiddo is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"The Dawn of a New Age" – 5:45 #"Night of Divine Power" – 5:50 Megiddo is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"The Dawn of a New Age" – 5:45 (Remixed by Apoptygma Berzerk)#"Night of Divine...

    (1997)
  • Intermezzo II
    Intermezzo II
    Intermezzo II is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"A Moment of Clarity" – 6:40#"I.N.R.I." – 2:10 #"Nemesis Divina" – 5:15...

    (1999)
  • My Skin Is Cold
    My Skin Is Cold
    My Skin Is Cold is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. It contains one new song, two re-mastered, and two live songs with an orchestra playing with the band.-Track listing:Disc 1 :#"My Skin is Cold" - 05:06...

    (2008)

Singles

  • K.I.N.G.
    K.I.N.G.
    "K.I.N.G." is a limited edition single by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon from their 2006 album Now, Diabolical. The single was limited to 1000 copies for the Norwegian market only...

    (2006)
  • The Pentagram Burns (2006)
  • Black Crow on a Tombstone (2008)

Compilation albums

  • The Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrassil
    The Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrassil
    The Forest Is My Throne/Yggdrasill is a split album by Satyricon and Enslaved.-Satyricon:#"Black Winds" – 7:07#"The Forest Is My Throne" – 5:00#"Min Hyllest til Vinterland" – 5:24#"The Night of the Triumphator" – 6:10-Enslaved:#"Heimdallr" – 6:40...

    (1995)
  • The Box Set (1998, 3 LPs)
  • Ten Horns - Ten Diadems
    Ten Horns - Ten Diadems
    Ten Horns – Ten Diadems is a compilation album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"Filthgrinder" – 6:42#"Dominions of Satyricon" – 9:26 #"Forhekset" – 4:31#"Night of Divine Power" – 5:49...

    (2002)

Music videos

  • Mother North (1997)
  • Fuel for Hatred (2002)
  • K.I.N.G (2006)
  • The Pentagram Burns (2006)
  • Black Crow on a Tombstone (2008)

External links

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