Tom Hersey, Journalist

"There’s an energy in the band that I’ve never felt before."

There’s a lot of weird noises, you’re completely overstimulated and you cannot begin to comprehend everything going on around you. But it’s still kind of awesome.

Austin Carlile says being in the band is like Christmas to a child

“Going into 2012 that was probably our hardest year, our touring really dived off and we had a bit of hard financial times."

"That I’m in a band with guys who think about playing music like a ten-year-old would think about Christmas, that’s one of my favourite things.”

"Without wanting to be too cheesy with it, I definitely feel there’s a lot more unity with our performance as a five-piece"

"We’ve sort of got a big following in Mexico and Greece. Lots of people in those places are following our fan pages and buying our vinyl."

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.

Blending the rocky accessibility of Kyuss’ …And The Circus Leaves Town and the jam-o-rama of Blues…, Peace is a groovy stoner rock behemoth. Welcome back to Sky Valley.