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In a novel collaboration with the world-famous Munch museum in Oslo, Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have created a musical composition in album format particularly to be skilled in a brand new exhibition known as “Satyricon & Munch” alongside chosen work and graphics by Edvard Munch. Not solely does this proceed to current Munch’s extraordinary work in a brand new mild, however the outcome can also be a monumental but intimate expertise.
The intersection of Munch‘s expressionist pictures and SATYRICON‘s music creates an area for contemplation that goes means past the standard type of black metallic. Like Munch, SATYRICON‘s strategy is open, inquisitive and always evolving. The music is stamped with an unmistakable signature, however the piece’s fashion, length and expressiveness show a special approach on their earlier work.
“‘I do not paint what I see, however what I noticed’, was how Munch defined his personal inventive strategy,” says SATYRICON frontman Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven. “Whereas engaged on this music, I’ve approached this sequence of Munch‘s works in the identical means. ‘The sensation they’ve left behind in me’, as he put it, is what I’ve been making an attempt to evoke, and that is what the ‘Satyricon & Munch’ exhibition is all about for me.’
The Munch artworks chosen for this exhibition draw on existential themes, and are fastidiously curated so as to create rhythms and waves that work in tandem with the music.
“On this present, the general public can sit up for an unbelievable assembly between music and artwork,” says Munch director Stein Olav Henrichsen. “Munch will proceed to supply challenges and surprises with a majority of these untraditional and thrilling tradition clashes.”
Watch Satyr‘s dialog with Munch curator Trine Otte Bak Nielsen in regards to the exhibition under.
Munch museum in Oslo is among the most well-known museums on the earth, devoted to the works of well-known Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The museum holds work resembling “The Scream”, “Madonna” and “Anxiousness”. It re-opened in October 2021 with a powerful constructing within the coronary heart of Oslo that gained much more consideration worldwide. The collaboration between one of many world’s most well-known black metallic bands and the museum is exclusive on a worldwide scale.
Final Might, Satyr informed Finland’s Kaaos TV that he was “halfway by way of” making SATYRICON‘s follow-up to 2017’s “Deep Calleth Upon Deep” album. Requested if the Norwegian “folks” music affect will discover its means on to the file, he stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, there are some guitar issues that clearly [have] the everyday SATYRICON incorporation of that kind of tonality. However maybe crucial half is my peculiar rhythmical patterns which a few of my colleagues discover to be troubling as a result of they’re thoughtless of the principles of rock music and every other form of construction and extra primarily based across the freedom that I really feel is in Norwegian folks music. In order that among the components that I write, you’ll be able to’t actually anticipate the place the chord development goes to finish as a result of I do not essentially observe established rhythmical patterns for the way music is completed. I let the concept and the melody line cleared the path.”
“Deep Calleth Upon Deep” was launched in September 2017 by way of Napalm Information. The disc was recorded in Oslo, Norway and Vancouver, Canada, throughout early 2017 and combined along with revered studio guru Mike Fraser (who beforehand labored on SATYRICON‘s 2006 album, “Now, Diabolical”).
SATYRICON‘s first two albums, 1993’s “Darkish Medieval Occasions” and 1994’s “The Shadowthrone”, had been launched as remixed and remastered reissues with altered cowl artworks, in Might 2021 by way of Napalm Information.
Photograph credit score: Morten Andersen
