WACKEN, GERMANY – AUGUST 04: Fans celebrating the performance of the band Skindred during the Wacken Open Air festival on August 4, 2018 in Wacken, Germany. Wacken is a village in northern Germany with a population of 1,800 that has hosted the annual festival, which attracts heavy metal fans from around the world, since 1990. (Photo by Gina Wetzler/Getty Images)
Metal Hammer sat down with Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven, fron-tman and songwriter of the band Satryricon. He had some interesting things to say about black metal.
About the genre as a whole, Satyr said, “we can’t subscribe to some teenager in Germany’s idea of the purity of black metal,” and that the black metal genre should be limitless.
When asked about black metal's history, he said, “church-burnings and murder, they’re a part of our history.” Satyr continued, “ff that’s an obstacle that people have to overcome, then I can’t work with them. I’m not gonna distance myself from the scene I grew up in. I’m not gonna apologize and, a lot of the people who personally have something to answer for, they’re my friends. They did what they did, they were prosecuted, they served their time and they were released. That’s how society works.”
You can read the full interview here!
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Legendary thrash drummer Dave Lombardo recently was ask by Metal Hammer to name his three favorite Slayer songs.
He went with some deep cuts with his three choices, which we have listed below! You can check out more from the interview here!
