This is a review of an album from Norway's Satyricon that was released in 1994 called "The Shadowthone" which displays an earlier style of black metal and was re-issued in 2021 by Napalm Records.
Grim yet high pitched black metal screams start off the album along with some heavy riffing a few seconds later. Keyboards are also mixed in with the heavier sections of the songs while a great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length and spoken word parts can also be heard at times.
The music also has its atmospheric moments while the riffs also add in a decent amount of melody. Clean pagan vocals are also added on some of the tracks along with the faster sections of the songs also adding in a lot of tremolo picking and blast beats which also gives the music more of a raw feeling.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with a couple of tracks also introducing acoustic guitars and spoken word parts onto the recording as well as some nature oriented sounds also being utilized briefly and when guitar leads are finally added into the music they are also done in a very melodic style, as the album progresses a small amount of stringed instruments can also be heard and they also add in touches of folk music. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Mysticism, Nature and Apocalyptic themes.
In my opinion this was another great sounding recording from Satyricon and if you never have heard the earlier material, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Hvite Krists dod" "Vikingland" and "The king of The Shadowthrone". 8/8 out of 10.
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