Satyricon release new album
Sigurd ‘Satyr’ Wongraven, the frontman of the famous Norwegian black-metal band Satyricon comments on the release of the new album.
Satyr added: “I think too many metal bands sound like they play music for other musicians, that the song has no higher purpose or that they don’t look for a special atmosphere or anything like that,” he continued. “They just play and say, ‘Look at me, I can shred.’ It’s very typical and it’s really sad”.
Nevertheless, the frontman has no idea what sort of response “Now, Diabolical” is going to receive when it lands in U.S. record stores on June 13. Satyricon’s previous album “Volcano” has sold a mere 15,000 copies since its release back in 2003. Six weeks ago, Now, Diabolical was released in Europe and is one of the fastest-selling records in their Norway.
But Europe differs greatly from America,and Satyr said: “Americans have a different understanding of extreme-metal music”.
He continued: “It’s kind of weird, because death metal is a part of what I call extreme-metal music, and death metal has more to do with America than Europe, that’s for sure. It seems like there is a lot of confusion as to who’s, where it concerns black metal and death metal. Europeans pinpointed a long time ago who’s black metal and what bands are important. The American kids don’t seem to have the slightest clue about that, so you find yourself in a situation where a band that is not popular in Europe at all … can do really well in America, while other bands that have very solid standings in Europe are not doing very well in America. It’s hard to predict”.
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