Death.FM - Satyricon - Now, Diabolical

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Now, Diabolical Satyricon	5:27	96
02	K.I.N.G. Satyricon	3:31	185
03	The Pentagram Burns Satyricon	5:35	138
04	A New Enemy Satyricon	5:43	59
05	The Rite Of Our Cross Satyricon	5:42	67
06	That Darkness Shall Be Eternal Satyricon	4:46	68
07	Delirium Satyricon	5:33	62
08	To The Mountains Satyricon	8:07	60

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Now, Diabolical

By:	Ebonfire
Date:	22 Dec 2010
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With 2006’s “Now, Diabolical” we see Satyricon’s final transition from black metal into more of a black ‘n’ roll band, and the results are not exactly mind blowing.

This is a simple, straight forward album which sounds nothing like Satyricon’s earlier material. The overall intensity we expect from any black metal band is lacking, and in its place we get a mixture of catchy radio friendly songs, and slow paced tracks which don’t seem to have many memorable moments to them. Frost’s drumming on this album gives the impression he’s been forcibly restrained from going at full fury, which is a shame, as we all know he’s capable of much better (see: 1349).

Two of the more radio friendly songs on this album are K.I.N.G. and The Pentagram Burns, and obviously the band thought so too, as music videos have been made for both tracks. Both of these tracks are definitely among the best songs on the album: K.I.N.G. is very simple, catchy and memorable whereas The Pentagram Burns is one of the darker tracks on this album and shows considerable promise of what’s to come next.

However, the album gets quite stale from here until we get to the track To The Mountains, which I think is a very good track, and shows that the band still hasn’t completely lost their touch. I believe this song would have turned out much better had they recorded it 10 years earlier during their prime years.

On certain limited editions of this album, as well as the K.I.N.G. single, there’s a track called Storm (Of The Destroyer), and if you intend to buy this album, try and make sure your copy has this song on it. Storm (Of The Destroyer) may be the shortest track on this album (at under three minutes), but it’s also the fastest and most intense song on this album. Satyricon should have put this song on all copies of "Now, Diabolical", not just some, because this is a great song and deserves to be heard by everybody who buys this album.

Overall this is an incredibly soft listen and severely lacking in aggression compared to their earlier albums, someone who didn’t know any better would think early Satyricon and later era Satyricon were two different bands. That doesn’t mean this album is shit, but by no means is “Now, Diabolical” a genre-defying masterpiece.

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