Satyricon (band)

This article is about the band. For other uses see Satyricon (disambiguation).

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band.

Satyricon credit their first album, Dark Medieval Times, 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 raw black metal with blastbeats produced by Frost mixed with acoustic guitar and flute. On the next album The Shadowthrone this medieval spirit was preserved though it shifted to what is called viking/black metal.

Regarding one of their latest albums, Volcano, the frontman of the band, Satyr, stated in a press release/biography, published 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 and Bathory, 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".

They have toured with Pantera, among others.

Most recently, the band released a new studio album, Now, Diabolical. The album is generating a great degree of controversy in the black-metal underground, due to its straightforward, "radio-friendly" take on the genre. The album is selling extraordinarily well, however, even outside of black-metal circles.

Discography

Studio releases

Live and compilation releases

The Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrassil [Split CD with Enslaved] - (1995)
Picture Disc Box [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)
Fuel For Hatred [Videoclip] - (2002)
K.I.N.G. [Videoclip] - (2006)

Band members

Current members

Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Bass - (1990-)
Frost (Kjetil Haraldstad) - Drums - (1992-)

Former members

Kveldulv (Ted Skjellum) a.k.a. Nocturno Culto of Darkthrone - Guitar - (1996)
VARGEN (Joakim Jensen) - Guitar - (1990-1992)
Samoth (Tomas Haugen) of Emperor and Zyklon - Bass - (1993-1996)
Torden - Keyboards - (1993)
Wargod (Vegard Blomberg) - Bass - (1990-1993)
PrimeEvil (Steinar Henriksen) - Drums - (1990-1992)
Morfar Blodtann (Anders Ørjebu) - Percussion - (1990-1996)
Lord Deadmeat (Gøran Basso) - Bass - (1990-1990 fired same year due to medical problems)
Exhurtum (Carl-Michael Eide) - Drums - Original drummer, starting when the band was still called Eczema, played on the The Forest Is My Throne demo