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Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
22 April 1996
01. The Dawn Of A New Age
02. Forhekset
03. Mother North
04. Du Som Hater Gud
05. Immortality Passion
06. Nemesis Divina
07. Transcendental Requiem Of Slaves
The peak of the 'sraditional? Black metal career of one of the most important and influential bands in the scene. In 1996 Satyr and Frost (helped for the guitars by Fenriz) released a concentrate of BM ideals, music and feelings.
?This is armaggeddon? Satyr scream at the beginning of the album. And his musical armaggedon is made by a tight, complex and melodic riffing, trademark of the band. Not ?pure? BM, not only full throttle madness, continuos blast beats and a dirt production but an intricated songwrting that privileges the time changing rather than the monotonous repetition of only one (Burzum-like) oppressive riff. In some parts, sudden changes of time let us hear a ?folk? melody, or a piano, or a xylophone.
Satyr's style is indeed carachterized by open, airy and layered compositions, prefectly capable to build up grim yet melodic riffing patterns, still keeping the ?evil? and cold feelings and create majestic atmospheres.
The main riff of ?Mother North?- a real anthem, probalbly one of the most representavie BM songs ever - is something of memorable, cold wind blowing furiously over the icy lands of the mother North.
The title track, on the other hand, is the anthem of the other main ideological element of Norwegian BM, the anger towards Christianity: is a shame that not everyone can understand the lyrics (in Norwegian), because this song is a real manifesto against it, about how it corrupt the northern lands through the words of a 21th century Viking like Satyr.
Quite important is to notice how the wonderfull instrumental ?Transcendental Requiem Of Slaves?- that closes the album - gives us some samples of how the new evolved style (through pseudo-industral noises and 'mechanical? riffs) of Satyricon will sound in the future.
There is not much more to say for an album able to wrote an important chapter af the BM movement, that closes one age of Satyricon's approach to BM and at the same time marks the beginning of the way of innovation that Satyr will mature throughout the following Ep and ?Intermezzo II? and will explode in all its controversity in the ?Rebel Extravaganza? album. |
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Truly a brilliant album! Great important songs such as Du Som hater gud (damn I love that title!) and the almighty Mother North!  |
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 Major - 08.01.2008 at 11:52
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| Great album, a must-have for every BM fan. Immortality Passion is my favorite Satyricon song. |
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another 1st class work from Satyricon! their medieval folk style from this album (and the two previous) are fantastic. This band deserves a place in the top 5 black metal.
Best Tracks: ''Forhekset'', ''Mother north'' and ''Immortallity Passion''. |
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| A good sample for black.deep music as well. |
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Masterpiece, like everything Satyricon did until that point. It's a pity this band became so shitty after this album.
I can never decide which album I prefer between "Nemesis Divina" and "Dark Medieval Times". But "Nemesis Divina" is more impressive, as far as musicianship is concerned. |
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| A good album. Mother North is one of the Black Metal Monuments. |
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| Oh satyricon, why, WHY????? |
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| My favorite album by them |
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Written by Ellrohir on 30.09.2009 at 11:25
My favorite album by them
Stop posting these sort of spam messages. Also explain WHY it is your favourite, |
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| Because i like most of the tracks on album and Mother North is my fav bm song? |
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Yuyu - 10.05.2011 at 19:05
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In the Top 10 of my favourite albums. "Inmortality passion" is fuckin incredible!  |
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Cuca Beludo - 23.09.2011 at 19:50
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| At first I didn't liked it, but now I am getting into... Great band and great review too! |
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