SATYRICON
May 23, 2019
1 minute
DARK MEDIEVAL TIMES
might rightly be considered black metal’s foundational album, but the year of its release was no slouch in worldwide in 1994 (swiftly followed by ). It remains an important record in its own right: a supremely grim compendium of numerous themes and motifs that were swirling around black metal, from frigid symphonic sweeps, to fascination with medieval (obviously) ruin and the hallowed inhumanity of nature, but its true historical stature is as a marker point for where black metal would go next.
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