Satyricon is all geared up to record and release a new album in 2017. The album will be the band's first in four years, and the first album since frontman Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven's diagnosis of a brain tumor in 2015.
According to an interview with Metal Hammer, the band will be recording a new album in a farm outside Oslo, and that the new material will be less aggressive and "more percussive, varied and soulful" than previous efforts.
"When we started getting back in to the rhythm after I was hospitalised, the music changed. I wasn't so much into what we did earlier – it wasn't that I didn't like it, but I didn't feel it in the same way anymore.
"A lot of what we did in the beginning is relentless, violent and aggressive. It's not like it's sobbing or really sad now, but it's more percussive, varied and soulful. There's less emphasis on the aggressive violent part of it."
It'll be interesting to hear what a calmer Satyricon sounds like. I guess as a band that goes to the extreme musically all the time, you'd get a little burnt out on it after 20+ years. Who knows? Maybe Sorta Sad-tyricon is what the metal world needs.
