Search - Satyricon :: Now, Diabolical

If THIS is black metal, I'm sold.

bombedzombie | PSL, Florida | 06/11/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm sure it isn't. I'm sure Satyircon are being disowned by their old school, old style faithful for sounding like this, and being called genre taitors or something... and I don't care. I don't care if this is the Britney of Black metal, I like it.



Buzzsaw guitars, reefed up in your face. Pounding and pummeling drums. Non-existent bass (this IS metal... what's the bass player for anyway? Just another guy to split the checks with... forget him :P You want bass, go listen to Primus). Darth Vader with throat cancer rasps of pure evil... and the lyrics are text book evil. I can't take them seriously (who could?), but ooohhh, that SOUND!



This album just rages and GROOVES (blasphemey for black metal fans, I'm sure)... check out the single "K.I.N.G."... could be the soundtrack for a dark haired, tattooed stripper's spotlight dance, couldn't it? And that production... Yeah... I'm sure fans of old school Immortal, Burzum, Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost, and Mayhem absolutely HATE this.



It's the Motley Crue of 2000's black metal, and it's just plain good. So sue me."