Have you heard the new Satyricon album?

get rid of the twisting thorns-style riffs from "rebel extravaganza" and extend the simplistic, ministry-ish two chord riffs into overlong songs and you have "volcano."

The "industrial" criticism was mainly inspired the not-very-metal clinically sterile/digital production job rather than the songwriting itself, I guess. But the vocals are tedious, and the riffs are so extremely boring...

From what I hear from people, the general hatred towards Satyr largely comes from his continuous trendhopping career - medieval themes are in, voila Dark Medieval Times and Fjelltronen, oh no, vikings are cool now, enter The Shadowthrone and the Storm project, hey now Dissection-style melodicism is en vogue: Nemesis Divina, wait, everybody in Norway is listening to Apoptygma Berzerk: let's hire APB for a EBM/industrial remix (never mind the fact that he's christian), everybody is saying "black metal is dead" and Dødheimsgard scores with avantgarde/industrial ideas: let's try that on Rebel Extravaganza. Along the lines it has produced a nice tune here and there, but Satyricon always left a bad taste in my mouth.

Pretty obsessed with the old Satyricon albums at the moment: picked up "Dark Medieval Times" partly because Satyricon came last in the Norwegian BM Poll, and have been playing it a lot. Just acquired "Shadowthrone" and it sounds equally nuts.

Still trying to find out how he got that guitar sound on DMT. Sounds like a ton of fuzz, then reverb & a highpass filter but I could never come close.

It's a completely insane sound. The music keeps on taking bizarre tangents. It feels like a soundtrack.

You might like the Storm and Wongraven albums (Satyr side-projects). The first is like DMT if the metal parts were the interludes and the folk bits were the songs and the second is sweeping folk-ambient stuff.

Thanks, will check 'em out.