Satyricon (band)

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Frost and Satyr
Background information
Origin	Norway
Genre(s)	Black Metal
Label(s)	Moonfog Productions Nuclear Blast Century Media Red Ink Sony BMG Roadrunner Records UK
Website	www.satyricon.no
Members
Satyr Frost

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

Satyricon (pronounced: suh-Teer-I-con) is a Norwegian black metal band. The band credits their first album, Dark Medieval Times, with starting a black metal sub-genre dubbed "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.

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 many famous fans: Phil Anselmo, James Hetfield, Joey Jordison, Bjørn Einar Romøren, and many more.

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.

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Albums 1.2 EPs 1.3 Singles 1.4 Live and compilation releases 1.5 Demos 1.6 Videography 2 Band members 2.1 Current members 2.2 Former members 3 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

• Dark Medieval Times - (1993)
• The Shadowthrone - (1994)
• Nemesis Divina - (1996)
• Rebel Extravaganza - (1999)
• Volcano - (2002)
• Now, Diabolical - (2006)

[edit] EPs

• Megiddo - (1997)
• Intermezzo II - (1999)

[edit] Singles

• The Pentagram Burns - (2006)
• K.I.N.G. - (2006)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Demos

• All Evil [Demo] - (1992)
• The Forest Is My Throne [Demo] - (1992)

[edit] Videography

• Mother North [VHS] - (1996)
• Roadkill Extravaganza [VHS/DVD] - (2001)
• Fuel For Hatred [Videoclip] - (2002)
• K.I.N.G. [Videoclip] - (2006)
• The Pentagram Burns [Videoclip] - (2006)

[edit] Band members

[edit] Current members

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

[edit] Former members

• Kveldulv (Ted Skjellum) a.k.a. Nocturno Culto of Darkthrone - Guitar - (1996)
• Vargen (Joakim Jensen) - Guitar - (1990-1992)
• Samoth (Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen) of Emperor and Zyklon - Bass - (1993-1996)
• Torden (Tord Vardøen) - Keyboards - (1993)
• Wargod (Vegard Blomberg) - Bass - (1990-1993)
• PrimeEvil (Steinar Henriksen) - Drums - (1990-1992)
• Morfar Blodtann (Anders Ørjebu) - Percussion - (1990-1996)
• Lord Deadmeat (Goran 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
• Joey Jordison* [Played US tour when Frost couldn't get a Work Visa from US]

[edit] External links

• Satyricon Official site
• Satyricon Fansite
• Satyricon at the All Music Guide