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Album Review: Satyricon - Satyricon

While Satyricon sometimes feels under-realised, much like the Demonaz solo record that also tried to marry black metal and rock’n’roll, it has moments of latter-day Darkthrone weirdo brilliance during songs like Walker Upon The Wind.

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In the years since 2008's The Age Of Nero, Norwegian black metal crew Satyricon have undergone a metamorphosis. They were a fire-breathing, uber-kvlt duo. Now they're respectable gentlemen. Frontman Satyr even has his own wine. All that maturity and class can be heard on the new self-titled LP, which takes the charred battle rock of Nero to a new, epic, extreme. While Satyricon sometimes feels under-realised, much like the Demonaz solo record that also tried to marry black metal and rock'n'roll, it has moments of latter-day Darkthrone weirdo brilliance during songs like Walker Upon The Wind.