Satyricon

Corpse paint, fog, Norwegian fjords, and the unsparing, primal and ice-cold music – these are the immediate associations that spring to mind when one hears “Norwegian black metal”. The band was formed in 1991 and at the heart of it, from almost the very beginning, were the primary songwriter and composer Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven and the drummer Kjetil-Vidar “Frost” Haraldstad. Satyricon are the living legends of the Norwegian black metal, spoken about in the same breath as Mayhem and Darkthrone. Throughout its career, the band, alongside the classic black metal sound, experimented with ambient and progressive metal, boldly stirring in the genre cauldron. Despite Satyr’s serious health problems, the band continues to tour and with smaller or bigger intervals to record albums, spreading the black metal frostbitten evil in every corner of the world. Their latest project, however, sees them breaking new ground – they created the soundtrack to the exhibition of Edvard Munch’s paintings, one of the precursors of expressionism.