SATYRICON

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: cold sophisticated modern black metal

on their seventh full-length opus Satyr and Frost, acknowledging no authorities, abhor the tried and tested before genre stereotypes once again, craving for deeper creativity to find there utmost satisfaction that no devotion to set formulas could provide; eight heavy-weighted, bleak, epic, nihilistic and direct tracks were written mostly in a secluded wild forest cabin with technical collaboration of Snorre Ruch [Thorns], partly recorded at Sound City studios in California, where Metallica's Death Magnetic opus was also shaped, and such a contrast results in deep, monolithic sound, where orderly rhythms, strict guitar layers, and ascetic compositional structure create a hypnotic musical pulse, maintaining an unyielding Satyricon-like direction