Audio CD review:
Satyricon - Goat Horns

Satyricon - Goat Horns

Band: Satyricon Title: Goat Horns Rating: Release Date: 31 March, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Black Moon Overture 2: Kuyaviya 3: Goat Horns 4: Unholy Orathania 5: Veles' Scrolls 6: Kolyada 7: Eternal Circle

Customer Reviews Incomparable!!! ' Every composition contained here is absolute genius! The songs are benefitted greatly by the cold production, which acts as testimony to the atavistic nature of the album's content and intention. This album is the quintessential symphonic black metal recording, far surpassing any efforts from better-known competitors, excluding Emperor's 'In the Nightside Eclipse. The limited production is also genuine, as this album was recorded in 1996 it presents a slightly muffled magick that has never been imitated successfully by any now-pathetic band on latest releases(Satyricon, awful-Xasthur, etc. ). The faking of bad production in hopes of maintaining legitimacy is bloody stupid. A critique must be made in regards to the quiet guitar volume, as some of the guitar work is often over-shadowed by the keyboards. A re-mastering and re-mixing of this album could provide improvement in the aforementioned area, but intensity is often sacrificed by such efforts (think Stormblast), so it is best to just leave it be. My advice is to get intoxicated on something, sit outside in the woods, turn up the volume, and lose yourself in the power of the album. However if you must skip through the album, 'Veles' Scrolls' and the title track are in my opinion the finest of all the album's brilliant tracks. It should also be recognised that this album is not identical to those interpretations made by influential Norwegian black metal artists, but rather an eastern European expression of the same atavistic heathen fury. A few moments of the album even venture into slavonic folk, which was and remains a welcome shift from the grandiose orchestral keyboard work which dominates black metal records of the time. The folk experimentation also reveals an impetuous sense of native cultural pride held by the composers, which could be ridiculously labelled as ignominious by those critics eager to award a classification of 'NSBM' to any patriotic band. If some listeners condemn this band for their controversial socio-political involvement and positions, then those listeners probably should not be listening to black metal. Black metal is intended for a specific section of people, and many of those people find identity in or flirt with nationalism/Nazism/paganism/Satanism, which are engaged in ubiquitous conflict with the values of the majority population. Black metal is intended for the extreme person, not the weak and timid. If a listener cannot grant Nokturnal Mortum full-credit for their masterpiece due to the band's convictions, then that listener is the one who is discriminating effectively, not the band. For however extreme the band's exclusive viewpoints be, their albums are on the market available for anyone to interpret. . oi vei! too bad they are nazis! This album came together nicely. Indeed, i loved their music from moment one, its so black, so devilish, so mischivious. The thing is this guys are nazis and think none outside of their rubbish country is ready or even deserves a live concert, hey, they said it in an interview, not me. So, yea, this guys are pricks, they make good music, so its a give and take situation, oh well, they get 3 stars from me, sorry, nazis can't get more than 3 stars. album of a lifetime One that when you hear it you realize. This is one of those CD's. . . this is something you have yearned to hear all your life. I put it in my top ten Black Metal CD's of all time! BUY IT NOW!!!. . You can see a complete list of all Satyricon discography, or go back to the Satyricon tabs