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Supersonic Journey 7. End of Journey 8. A Moment of Clarity 9. Down South, Up North The Scorn Torrent. With Ravenous Hunger 2. Angstridden 3. Fuel for Hatred 4. Suffering the Tyrants 5.
Possessed 6. Repined Bastard Nation 7. Mental Mercury 8. Black Lava. Now, Diabolical. Now, Diabolical 2. The Pentagram Burns 4. A New Enemy 5. The Rite Of Our Cross 6. That Darkness Shall Be Eternal 7. This album is another step in their evolution of being one of the greatest bands today, perhaps as great as they were among their own, but now with a wider perspective. When I first heard this album hell, the first 20 times maybe I had a really hard time digging into it. This album took a lot of time, but I now find it as one of my favourites if not my favourite metal albums.
It's complex, it's different, and in my opinion is pure brilliance and it's where Satyricon shines the most in their whole discography. Having this said, lets move on to the actual review, track by track, but with a little insight on the album as a whole. With Ravenous Hunger - After a rather industrial intro, which reminds us of machines marching to war, we hear the warcry "At my signal, unleash hell.
We're presented pounding double bass and buzzing raw guitars but perceptible. Volcano isn't your typical black metal album, not even by Satyricon standadrs. There are blastbeats here and there, but very well-placed. This album has a lot of atmospheric passages, where experimentation with synths, guitar noise and droning riffs make their way into this ravenous fury. Lyrics aren't really remarkable on this one, but the theme in this album is a bit philosophical, and these lyrics are no exception.
Angstridden - There is a lot of exploration in the rhythmic section. Drums have a great rock'n'roll feeling in this song.
Blastbeats are hand to hand with some tribal breaks, the guitars are the most dissonant thing you have heard coming from Satyr. Here we have another mid to slow paced interlude, and I think these moments are where this album really shines. Fuel for Hatred - My least favourite track. Nice black'n'roll, yes, looks a bit fueled, but I feel that this song doesn't belong in an album where most of the music is more complex and really innovative. What we have here is a straight forward fast-paced rock and roll with harsh vocals.
It too has a slow tempo part, but it's nothing really worth of listening. Suffering the Tyrants - This song starts with a really transcending feeling, like Satyr is dragging you around with his voice, playing with your conscience.
Some eerie sounds blending with the guitars, distorted chords and screaming harmonics make this one of the most inspired and inspiring songs in this album.
The slow part on this one is really sick, morbid even. The raw production of the guitars really helps into the atmosphere, adding more noise to the instrumental chaos. Frost is really dynamic on these eight songs, exploring a lot of rhythms besides the typical blastbeat and double pounding that we love so much. Possessed - This one is a lot faster, but with time for some droning riffs on the end.
We also find on this album lots of start-and-stop breaks that really add into the rock feeling of some of the songs here. I haven't made many or any remarks about Satyr's voice so far, so I'm gonna take the chance to do it now. It's harsh, sure it is, but it's not black metal. It's not even "sung", it's like he's reading poetry using harsh vocals.
The few times the clean voice is used, it adds a great impact to the song because it blends so well with the atmosphere. Repined Bastard Nation - I really can't get the meaning and purpose of the lyrics, but this songs holds one of my favourite parts on this album, which starts at Just listen to that rhythm guitar going along with the snare, it adds incredible balance to the melodic line.
We have blastbeats on this one too, but they don't sound black metal in this context, sounds more like some industrial thing or whatever. Mental Mercury - Now we're talking. With this song begins the best part of the album, the epic part. It starts really fast, but I always feel like it's building intensity. The inhuman scream "Suffering! Then at it's genius. Everytime I listen to this song I get the bumps. The female vocals, whispering, the guitar slowly digging to your subconscious, the almost jazz-like drumming This is what I'll be listening when I trip on fucking acid.
It's amazing. And it's the most brilliant riff I've ever heard. Black Lava - The final song on this album. Marking at , it's the epic of this album in its true sense, but after such brilliance on the previous track, it's hard to keep it up, but Satyricon managed it very well. This one is always mid-paced and it's lyrics represent pefectly what is, to me, the spirit of black metal.
The lava this volcano spills will not melt you to death and engulf you in flames. It will drown you to a mind-chilling state, that you just can't help but embrace. To finish this review, I'd just like to reccomend those of you that did not enjoy this album at the first listens, give it a shot.
Listen to it from time to time, try to appreciate all the details it offers, because if you're just comparing it to what you were expecting from Satyricon you won't find what you seek. This album is a genre by it's own as it's not black metal influenced by other genres. It picks from a lot of genres and merges it into this enormous masterpiece.
Just NO. There's no excuse that Satyricon can use for putting out an album that's so worthless, so undeniably terrible on every level, so limp-wristed and castrated that the very MENTION of 'heavy metal' is enough to make it cry like a nine year old girl. I've listened to this album all the way through precisely once.
I can't even bear to listen to it even once more. Satyricon was once a fairly boring but still legitimate black metal band that everyone liked for reasons that I never fully understood.
Having seen a used copy of 'Volcano' sitting around the local record shop for about six dollars, I said why not and picked it up. Well, that's not exactly true: I'd probably still buy it, just so I can know what the absolute nadir of musical effort is in modern heavy metal. I consider it something of a learning experience, kind of like how punching a hundred mirrors and then soaking your hand in Tabasco sauce teaches you that it's probably not a good idea to do it in the future.
Yes, it's something you should know logically, but sometimes you need a bit of a kick to really imprint such an idea into your head. Of the eight songs and agonizing fifty-five minutes of this LP, there are one and a half good songs. And all the good material is within the first half of the album. This means that there are six and a half songs with absolutely NO quality whatsoever to speak of.
Now, that might be a good enough ratio for some of you, but I tend to set my standards a little higher. Even, I don't know, three good songs would make me not want to die while listening to it. However, this album can't even scrape up enough to make three solid tracks. You know, even if they just put 'Mother North' on here again, I'd tolerate it a great deal more simply because, even though it would be a repeat, that would be an additional good song that you could put in instead of something like 'Angstridden'.
I suppose on some aesthetic level, this is sort of black metal. This means that there are raspy vocals, tremolo picked sections, and the occasional blast beat. That's about as black metal as this album gets. The rest is third-rate Dimmu Borgir chugga chugga riffing, inane double bass patterns, and amelodic, underdeveloped melodies, all wrapped up with Satyr's utterly trite vocal performance.
This album just sucks in every way. There's no shred of light on the terrible songs: no isolated good riffs or fills or trade-offs or anything that would bring me even the slightest interest. The riffs are five-note tremolo affairs or two-chord chugfests with nothing interesting going on at all. So, as I said before, there's one and a half good songs.
The fully good track is opener 'With Ravenous Hunger'. While not awesome in any way, it manages to be reasonably intense and ominous with Satyr's trades between shrieks and spoken word passages, held together neatly by some decent riffing and a fairly robust percussive performance on the part of Frost.
The half comes from some decent parts in 'Fuel For Hatred', which, while just being a rock song with double bass and rasping, manages to be more fun and headbanging than anything else here. The main riff is genuinely pretty cool, and I like listening to it. One and a half good songs, equalling to just over ten minutes of reasonable music.
Then there's three quarters of an hour of utterly horrible crap. Each of the remaining songs is completely trite and boring, and not worth mentioning in even the slightest respect. Expect a bunch of boring crap. However, the one that I will take the time to write my hatred towards is the closing track, 'Black Lava'. I'm pretty sure that the last half of the song is NOTHING but the same two lines of lyrics repeated over the same riff and the same drumbeat and the same useless, effortless crap that defines this album.
Volcano was the first Satyricon album I owned, and I was suitably impressed with it on my first listen. One thing that did stand out on Volcano though was its rock-like style. The music could be described as having the characteristics of black metal, though the sound is very rock-like.
As for the instruments, one thing that disturbs me on this album is the bass.
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