Satyricon (band)

Satyricon are a Norwegian Black Metal band known mostly for their first album, Dark Medieval Times, which is credited with starting the sub-genre of Medieval Metal. The album showed off the fascination Satyricon had with the Middle Ages, along with the extreme metal mixed with acoustic guitar and flute. The album has been praised for both its beauty as well as its brutality.

The next album, Shadowthrone was basically the same as the first, except for the absence of the flute. The next album, titled Nemesis Divina had a more extreme feel to it, as well as a Battle Metal overtone to it. The next full album was a huge departure from the last ones. Titled, Rebel Extravaganza, it had an urban feel to it, along with some examples from Industrial Music[?]. This had many fans up in arms and angry: their beloved band turning into what they thought was just another Industrial Metal[?] band, like Static-X or Fear Factory. Their next album was Volcano which was very different from their older albums. It had a Hard Rock song, named, "Fuel For Hatred", and other examples from Electronic, Hard Rock, and Industrial music.

They have toured with Pantera, among others.

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See also: Satyricon for the classic Roman novel and the Fellini film based on it.