Nemesis Divina

Great 1996 album, with a real medieval feel! Absoluteley, totally heavy with a real focus on battles and the Apocalypse.Production is strong and it's a full on assault of riffs & drums that batter into submission. Satyr's vocals are brutal, and yet always easy to understand. The album has some of THE best use of keyboards within Black Metal, on classics such as Mother North. And there's plenty of clear, audible bass guitar as well, to back up the insaneley heavy guitar work.Great drums, fast & heavy, sometimes really tribal from the legend that is Frost.I defy anyone to put forward a heavier track than Forhekset!There's lyrics written in both English & the band's native Norwegian. Always dark, violent & up for a fight!There's also lots of great 'battle/army' style sound fx on such tracks asThe Dawn Of A New Age & Transcendental Requiem Of Slaves. The latter is an instrumental, that sounds ancient & evil.This is more 'old world' in feel than Now Diabolical, but it's an ESSENTIAL for Black Metal fans.Very much a Lord Of The Rings/Pathfinder/13th Warrior vibe, and not as satanic as some BM is, more of a pagan/Norse theme. Fans of Immortal or Viking Era Bathory will really like this!

NOT ONLY 1 OF THE BEST BLACK METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME ITS 1 OF THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. ITS NOT REALLY BLACK METAL ITS MORE REALLY HEAVY METAL. IT HAS FOLK, CLASSICAL AND ROCK IN IT AS WELL AS REALLY FIERCE THRASH METAL. I GOT THE 1996 RE,IISUE NOT THE 2016 RE MASTER. MY VERSION COST ME £6 WHERE AS THE 2016 VERSION IS GOING FOR £12 OR MORE. EITHER VERSION IS GR8 AND WORTH GETTING AND DON,T BE PUT OFF BY THE BLACK METAL TAG AS ITS FAR FROM SATANIC ITS MORE SONGS ABOUT NORSEMEN AND THE VIKINGS AND FOLKLORE IN NORWAY SO FAR FROM CRADLE OF FILTH TYPE STUFF. I,M A ROCK AND MEATL FAN OF 30 YEARS STANDING AND I PUT IT WITH J-PRIEST, I-MAIDEN, B-SABBATH ETC. BUY.

I lost my old, so got this one . Love it

Without doubt the pinnacle of Satyricon's recorded output. Buy and Die!!!

Upon purchasing this album i had only heard the Satyricon album (Now, Diabolical) so i was sceptical as to what to expect given that it is one of their earlier albums and black metal production values can be less than brilliant. Well i am pleased to say that it would seem satyricon do not seem to have been bothered as to what is expected by them in the black metal community. The album is full of rich layers of guitar, fantastic vocals and completely amazing lyrics. Not to mention the outstanding drumming of Frost who i personally believe is the best drummer in black metal. All in all, the band combine use of strong black metal ethics with crisp production values and amazing string arrangements to create one of the most captivating albums i have heard in a long time.

Not as great as 'The Shadowthrone', 'Nemesis Divina' still contains some outstanding pieces, notably 'Immortality Passion' ("where the howling winds rage, and the mountains are majestic, I can breathe...but where there is human flesh, I feel strangled..."), and 'Mother North'. While the latter was made into a cheesy video clip, the song itself is a masterpiece of ecological militance. Much more effective than the Midnight Oil song which it quotes ('Beds are Burning'), it contains a promise of revenge: "Phantom North, I'll be there when you hunt them down..." That should make the defilers of the earth quake in their boots...but sadly most of them will never hear it.

satyricons third album proper is now 11 years old and its influence is again unquestioned,while the leader of symphonic black metal would always be emperor,satyricon brought a fierce and melodic take on the genre that made them recognisable as well to be truthful and nemesis divina is a 42 minute treat of medieval black metal with beauty thrown in,less folky than before this album deserves all the plaudits for containing one of the greatest black metal songs ever in mother north,a truly chilling,haunting,melodic and startling 5 mins of music if ever i have heard.The title track is also a real belting tune and with one of the greatest drummers in frost as the backbone its no wonder than satyricons are highly regarded as they are,worth checking out on many levels.

This is by far my favourite album of all time. It combines harsh black metal elements along with melodic and medieval splender. Frost's drumming is spectacular and Satyr's vast musical talent and spot on vocals make this one of the all time classics!