The Age of Nero

Occupation

  • Satyr - guitar, vocals, keyboard
  • Frost - Drums
  • Victor Brandt - Bass

The Age of Nero is the seventh studio album by the Norwegian metal band Satyricon. Having previously two single releases were published, it was released in November 2008.

Formation

On 18 August 2008 Satyricon announced that the work had been completed on the new album The Age of Nero. Joe Barresi support Satyr in production. The album was released on November 3, advance the EP My Skin Is Cold and on 20 October the Single Black Crow on a Tombstone were published on 2 June. In the following months, the band toured Europe, America and India.

Satyricon wanted to win with the album, especially in the United States new fans.

Style and content

The Age of Nero continues commenced on the previous albums mixture of black metal and rock elements. The reviewer Yulon Zhu described the style based on Death 'n ' roll as " Black ' n' Roll". sputnikmusic.com place, this slower style was a return to the first wave of Black Metal. It is seen also a strong stylistic influence of the three previous albums Satyricon. On the DeathMetal.Org page it says, however, the album sounds like " any Groove Metal with superficial black metal treatment ".

The text lines are extremely short. The largely " groovy " drum game contains some of the typical black metal, blast beats, some of which are " inaudible " due to poor drums production.

Criticism

The criticism was altogether more positive than the previous album. The website chroniclesofchaos.com that had the previous album Now, Diabolical strongly criticized finds that The Age of Nero makes clear (in terms of the general stylistic change of the band) " fast that the problems are not of the blueprint, but rather to execution were. "Even Roel de Haan from the Lords of Metal Webzine shares the opinion that after the " weakest album by Satyricon Discography " again followed by a stronger. The page DeathMetal.Org however, criticized the music as a " mass-market, catchy, mindless rock-' n'- roll version of Black Metal", which Euronymous ' ideals and beliefs of the early scene was contrary and far from everything the reviewers and awakened other interest in this music. In this music there is "no trace of passion." " This sort of capitalist Black Metal" would lead to a genre of its own.

Title list

At Black Crow on a Tombstone a music video was filmed.

Bonus CD

A limited 2- CD version contained a bonus CD with the following songs:

Record label Roadrunner Records Indie Recordings Electric guitar Singing Electronic keyboard Bass guitar Van Nuys, Los Angeles Rock music Groove (music) Blastbeat Whiteprint Discogs Dark Medieval Times The Shadowthrone Nemesis Divina Rebel Extravaganza Volcano (Satyricon album) Intermezzo II
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