[Worthless Joke]

Early stuff - I can listen to it once in a rare while for nostalgia. It's so cheesy, silly and jolly that I can't help but smile. Still more charm, creativity and better than most nowadays metal.

Rebel - Cool transition album. I think Thorns, this and some others really laid the foundation for a more disharmonic/unmelodic way of aking modern black metal, that many bands still rely on.

Volcano - Their worst album. It shoots of in every direction, makes no sense and most of the material sounds like filler.

Now, Diabolical -Their best album. This is where they learned to write real songs that make sense. Before it was more like ramdom riffs thrown in together. And at least half the songs are very good and catchy.

Age of Nero - A small step down from the last. But only a couple of good songs, and more filler. I understand why they took a break after this. It's the Satyricon album that shows the least progression from the last, and the smal bits of progression there were, just brought more inconsistency back in. It's their second best album. But I think Satyricon should realise that they just have to perfect the style of "Now, Diabolical". Either that or something new I hadn't thought of.

[Mikael]

I must be the only one who sees Nemesis as their transition album, some stuff on it differs a lot from the first albums.

Now, Diabolical is my choice for this topic, but all of their albums has fillers.

[vociferous]

I'm not a fan of any of the other black n roll albums, but Volcano is great.. especially the second half. Possessed, Mental Mercury, Black Lava.

[Laugh At Your Corpse]

[speedevilucifer]

I don't understand the words cheesy,jolly naive for their first albums etc
With the same logic,same goes for Burzum,Immortal ,Gorgoroth..
You can't zeroing everything/
Their pick is nemesis divina ,a classic,followed by the first albums.
After that they became a different band..There are so many groups,indeed,who can be and are far better in their direction and progress than satyricon.

[Frozen]

No it doesn't. Burzum, Immortal and Gorgoroth didn't use medieval dance music as a foundation for their respective styles.
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[Cedric]

Volcano is packed with amazing riffs. I'm assuming this Thorns guy had a big impact on this (unless he wasn't involved in this album), so i'm curious to to hear the albums after that.

[NK7]

[Dalen]

Perhaps Volcano was an attempt towards more commercial sounds, but I don't see how maintaining this kind of style for three albums in a row is a "sell out" for a band like Satyricon. I mean, seriously, I usually hear negative words about their recent albums and how they should return to older sounds.
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[obscureinfinity]

I don't like any Satyricon I've heard after The Shadowthrone but let's skip ahead to Volcano since Nemesis Divina is still a pure black metal album. Volcano has very good production, the riffs are played in a verse chorus verse manner, and the vocals are much more clear and intelligible, courtesy of voice enhancement. All ingredients for a more commercially accessible album.

Maybe they did just want to play in that style but they still sold out. They went a route that was clearly going to make them more money than their straight-forward black metal output. Why don't you stop getting so butt-hurt about this and just admit it? If you like them anyway then why does it matter?

[obscureinfinity]

[under a funeral shroom]

I think a lot of people who listen to extreme metal started doing so because normal traditionally structured rock music did not appeal to them. I know that I find probably 98% of rock music to be completely uninteresting, always have. It's only natural for people who feel similarly to not like albums that regress back to a more accessible style.

[Worthless Joke]

[NK7]