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Satyricon is a Norwegian Black Metal band. Satyricon credit their first album, '' Dark Medieval Times '', with starting a black metal 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. 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 not the least, The Oslo awards for "Best Overall Album". They have toured with Pantera , among others. DISCOGRAPHY Studio releases
Live and compilation releases
Demos and bootlegs
Videography
BAND MEMBERS Current members
Former members
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SEE ALSO Satyricon is a classic Roman novel upon which a Fellini Film is based; see Satyricon . |
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