Genre: Black Metal / Black ‘n’ Roll / Post-Black / Avant-Garde Darkness
Formed: 1991 – Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
Known For: Fusing second-wave black metal with groove, doom, industrial and absolute menace.
Vibe: Bathory meets Bowie in a burning cathedral.
😈 WHO THE HELL ARE SATYRICON?
At the core of this sinister duo are:
🦇 Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) – Guitars, Vocals, Keys, Lyrics
The mastermind and lyrical sorcerer behind the band. Snarls like a villain, riffs like a god. Suits like a rockstar.
🥁 Frost (Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad) – Drums
A blastbeat war machine with the precision of a scalpel and the fury of a Nordic blizzard. One of black metal’s most iconic drummers.
From raw, unrelenting corpse-painted darkness to sultry, slithering black rock anthems, Satyricon have always evolved – and never obeyed.
🖤 THE LEGACY OF SATYRICON – NEVER BLACK & WHITE
Where others stagnated in tradition, ***Satyricon shed their grim cocoon and emerged as sleek, riff-heavy demons straddling black metal’s chaotic past and the genre’s twisted future.
They’re as likely to headline Wacken as they are to perform in art galleries.
They’ve collaborated with Lars Ulrich of Metallica.
They once made an album with a literal orchestra and NO GUITARS.
Satyricon don’t care what you think black metal should be.
They are what black metal will become.
💿 DISCOGRAPHY – FROM ICE AGE TO BLACK ‘N’ ROLL INFERNO 🧊🔥
❄️ Dark Medieval Times (1994)
🎧 Walk the Path of Sorrow, Taakeslottet
Vibe: Atmospheric, folky, frostbitten.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕
*Raw debut that feels like wandering a cursed forest with a sword and a fever.
🏰 The Shadowthrone (1994)
🎧 Hvite Krists Død, I en svart kiste
Vibe: Majestic. Melancholic. Monolithic.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
The true Nordic masterpiece of the early era.
🌌 Nemesis Divina (1996)
🎧 Mother North, Du som hater Gud
Vibe: Pagan fire meets precision blackened wrath.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
*The album that changed everything.
“Mother North” is black metal’s national anthem.
🔥 Rebel Extravaganza (1999)
🎧 Supersonic Journey, Filthgrinder
Vibe: Cold, industrial, aggressive AF.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
*Black metal with a cigarette, sunglasses and a switchblade.
⚡ Volcano (2002)
🎧 Fuel for Hatred, Repined Bastard Nation
Vibe: Groove-laden, confident, swaggering.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
*The start of Satyricon 2.0 – black metal with balls.
🖤 Now, Diabolical (2006)
🎧 Now, Diabolical, K.I.N.G.
Vibe: Catchy. Sleek. Dangerous.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
*When black metal got a makeover and came back with a vengeance.
🕶️ The Age of Nero (2008)
🎧 Black Crow on a Tombstone, Commando
Vibe: Darker. Heavier. More apocalyptic.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
*Riffs that crawl like shadows and punch like tanks.
🩸 Satyricon (2013)
🎧 Phoenix, Our World, It Rumbles Tonight
Vibe: Introspective. Groovy. Avant-garde.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕
*”Phoenix” with clean vocals shocked everyone. And it works.
🎻 Deep Calleth Upon Deep (2017)
🎧 To Your Brethren in the Dark, Midnight Serpent
Vibe: Doomy. Jazzy. Gothic. Experimental.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
*Black metal for the velvet-cloaked intellectual.
🧠 Satyricon & Munch (2022)
🎧 Entire album is an instrumental interpretation of Edvard Munch’s art
Vibe: Art-house. Abstract. Completely mental.
Riff Rating: 🌕🌕🌕
*Not for the faint of heart. More museum than mosh pit.
🎧 RIFF REPORT ESSENTIAL SATYRICON TRACKS
🎸 Mother North – The black metal banger.
🎸 Fuel for Hatred – Absolute S-tier stomper.
🎸 K.I.N.G. – Catchy enough to corrupt a choirboy.
🎸 Phoenix – Clean vocals never sounded this haunting.
🎸 Repined Bastard Nation – Marching to the end of the world.
🎸 To Your Brethren in the Dark – Soundtrack to a vampire’s regret.
🖤 WHY SATYRICON ARE STILL LORDS OF THE LONG NIGHT:
Because they:
- Rewrote black metal without erasing its darkness
- Taught corpsepaint to strut, not just scowl
- Blended menace with melody, art with apocalypse
- Wrote Nemesis Divina, for hell’s sake
- Proved you can evolve and still be kvlt as f*k**
And because Frost is STILL the cleanest blastbeat demon in black metal.
🎤 FINAL VERDICT FROM THE RIFF REPORT:
Satyricon are what happens when black metal grows up but never sells out.
They’ve sharpened their sound like a stiletto and carved their legacy into marble.
Wanna dress like a vampire but dance like a demon?
Want frostbitten riffs AND stadium stompers?
Craving music that’s evil AND elegant?
Satyricon are calling. And the call is cold, classy, and catastrophic.
