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  Background group_or_band
  Origin Norway
  Genre Black Metal
  Years Active 1990 - Present
  Label Moonfog Productions <br> Nuclear Blast <br> Century Media <br>''Red Ink''<br> Sony BMG <br> Roadrunner Records UK
  URL wwwsatyriconno
  Current Members Satyr <br/> Frost
  Past Members Kveldulv <br/> Samoth


This article is about the band. For other uses see Satyricon (disambiguation) .


Satyricon is a Norwegian Black Metal band, formerly known as Eczema. The band credits their first album, '' Dark Medieval Times '', with starting a black metal sub-genre dubbed "medieval metal". The album showed off the fascination Satyricon had with the Middle Ages , along with the raw black metal with Blastbeats produced by Frost mixed with acoustic guitar and flute. On the next album '' The Shadowthrone '' this medieval spirit was preserved.

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 The Oslo awards for "Best Overall Album".

Most recently, the band released a new studio album, Now, Diabolical . The album has generated a great degree of controversy in the black-metal underground, due to its straightforward, "radio-friendly" take on the genre. The album is selling extraordinarily well, however, even outside of black-metal circles.


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