Black Metal

The killer EP available on CD.

Black Metal

And so the battle continues with Aamongandr, SATANIC WARMASTER’s first studio full-length since 2014’s acclaimed Fimbulwinter. Indeed, where that album evinced a diversity of songcraft and, more so, a concertedly polished aspect that majestically made that obsidian gleam, Aamongandr explores that duality with equally compelling results. In fact, with the album wasting no time in kicking into high gear, SATANIC WARMASTER sounds more urgent than ever – and yet, here is where the band’s epic side is also revealed in full. Cryogenic and caressing is its melodicism, in the glare of burning churches, and deftly dusted with subtle synths that heighten the mysticism at the heart of the SW sound, Aamongandr’s six songs charge forth with the grim grandiosity of mighty steeds; not for nothing is one of the album’s highlights titled “Duke’s Ride (Ride of the Spectral Hooves).” All told, this sixth long-form statement of intent is immediately recognizable as SATANIC WARMASTER but irrevocably proves that its creator’s imagination continues to flow as infinitely as the Atlantean depths.

Black Metal

3 tracks CD single for total running time of about 15min taken from the upcoming Satanic Warmaster album!

Black Metal

Recorded in November 2000 at the Carelian Battlegrounds. Intended to be the first Satanic Warmaster album.

Black Metal

Originally released in 2003, Opferblut consolidated the massive momentum garnered by SATANIC WARMASTER’s influential debut album, 2001’s Strength & Honour, and truly cemented Finnish black metal as a reigning force in the underground for the still-new millennium. Cold and caustic but suffused with a burning passion that has marked the band from the beginning, Opferblut is pure, traditional BLACK METAL done the ancient way – in the glare of burning churches, when madness & mysticism still cloaked the scene.

Black Metal

2022 repress on digipack CD, includes the Blutrache demo ‘Marsch zu neuen Zeitaltern’.

Recorded in the hateful winter of 2000-2001 anno satanas.

Black Metal

The first Satyricon album, Dark Medieval Times, was released in the autumn of 1993, through the young band’s own Moonfog Productions imprint. Recorded earlier that year, it was both instantly recognisable as the product of the thriving Norwegian scene and as something wholly distinctive within that superficially restrictive musical framework. Even more remarkable was the fact that the entire record had been written and performed (with the exception of drums) by a then 17-year-old Sigurd ‘Satyr’ Wongraven: clearly a prodigious talent with an abundance of epic and perverse ideas rattling around in his head.