Now, Diabolical - Satyricon

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I bought this album highly recommended, but let me first say I was sadly disappointed in what in this purchase. Now before anyone sends me a bomb, let me explain my reasoning. The album starts off pretty decent and holds strong with a good catchy - dare I say groove oriented - guitar and drum sound and pretty well near negligible bass lines and easy to understand well enunciated black metal vocals at a near talk speed. But this is exactly the problem - almost every song on the CD has the same profile. While there really are no bad songs there aren’t any really good ones either and it gets old around the half way point. Satyr has an amazing voice that he really doesn’t use and basically talks his way through the entire album. I assume that if he really tried he could be a good guitarists but he pretty well keeps it simple and writes catchy but ignorable guitar and bass rhythms. For all the skill Frost seems to have as a drummer he seems to pretty well keep the same simple formula through the entire album as well making it pretty boring after a few tracks. I have tried to listen to this album several times but I for one am not a believer in the power of Satyricon and will think long and hard before I dare to buy another album.

Must Downloads - Now, Diabolical, K.I.N.G., To the Mountains.