SATYRICON singer Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven and drummer Kjetil “Frost” Haraldstad joined PANTERA on stage this previous Friday (January 24) at Spektrum in Oslo, Norway to carry out the Philip Anselmo-fronted band’s traditional track “Stroll”. Video of their look will be seen under.
Again in 2018, Satyr mentioned that his EIBON mission finally disintegrated on account of Anselmo‘s extreme drug habit.
The short-lived black metallic supergroup, which featured Satyr alongside the PANTERA singer, DARKTHRONE‘s Fenriz and NECROPHAGIA‘s Kiljoy, contributed one track to Moonfog Data‘ (Satyr‘s label) “A Completely different Perspective” sampler greater than 20 years in the past and was engaged on a debut album, solely to be shelved, by no means to be heard from once more.
Throughout an interview with Landry.Audio, Satyr was requested if he thinks there may be any probability that EIBON may ultimately be revived. “Each time when my brother Philip and I meet, we speak about it,” he laughed. “In order that’s absolutely one thing that we might like to do. However it’s arduous to make that occur. I am probably not in contact with Fenriz, and neither is Philip. I suppose Killjoy of NECROPHAGIA did not essentially… I do not know if he… By way of lyrics, that was just about Philip, for essentially the most half, and when it comes to music, that was 95 % me, if no more.
“Being brutally sincere, Philip and I may do EIBON with out Fenriz and with out our late brother Killjoy, however I feel that we must always have completed it after we have been engaged on this again within the late ’90s [and] early 2000s,” he continued. “However, frankly talking, it was Philip‘s habit on the time that ruined this entire mission. That is all there may be to it. [We] can speak about this and that, however that is what it comes all the way down to. On the time, he was past fucked up. Yeah, however he actually was. We have been within the studio making an attempt to do issues. I might come out from the recording room, [and] I might discover him mendacity, handed out on drugs, heroin, no matter, on the ground, along with his entourage surrounding him, not desirous to intrude or do something that would offend him, as a result of he was the large man. After which I might be considering to myself, ‘What the hell is that this? I really like this man and he is an ideal musician, however I am a black metallic man; I am not a PANTERA fan. And after I journey from the opposite aspect of the world to return work, I am right here to work, to not do medication.’ So, for me, that was a deeply irritating interval that basically upset me. However I contemplate Philip one in all my best associates and an impressive musician, so, in a technique or one other, I’d like to do extra music with Philip sooner or later, that is for certain.”
Requested if he knew Anselmo for a very long time earlier than they determined to collaborate on an album, Satyr mentioned: “No, I did not. And maybe if I’d have, possibly issues would have been a bit bit simpler. I am unable to keep in mind if it was ’98 or ’99 the place I bought to know him. It may need been ’98, I suppose. After which we have been on tour with [PANTERA] in 2000. I’ve to say this, although, about their music: in hindsight, I prefer it. I did not just like the music again then after we have been really on tour with them and had quite a bit to do with them, however in hindsight, I’ve grown to love their music. I feel the [Abbott] brothers [Vinnie and Darrell], the way in which they work together musically, it’s totally intriguing. There’s nothing fairly prefer it. This rhythmical understanding that the Abbott brothers had is exclusive. And Dime‘s guitar taking part in is phenomenal, after all, however it’s additionally… he [was] very inventive from a rhythmical viewpoint. And I feel Vince‘s manner of taking part in drums and taking all of the awkward timing of Dime‘s riffs and making it a bit bit extra highly effective and simple along with his drum preparations was a singular high quality that Vince had. And Rex [Brown] offering a robust spine along with his taking part in, after which Philip being simply one of the distinctive frontmen and singers in fashionable heavy metallic historical past, I suppose.”
Additionally in 2018, Anselmo admitted to Bardo Methodology that he “was nonetheless a pill-popping, druggard fool who’d nod off mid-sentence” whereas he and Satyr have been making an attempt to work on EIBON within the studio. “However Satyr was all the time a tough employee; he was the man who led,” Philip mentioned. “I discovered it fascinating from a musician’s standpoint. We performed primitive black metallic, so, in my view, the listener would contemplate what we have been taking part in very simple… and it was — however I used to be made to play by the Norge rule of strumming with the wrist as a substitute of down-picking on half-time elements, which is completely loopy in my thoughts. I attempted explaining to a really willful Satyr that the downward chop sounds heavier than halftime-picking, however, alas, he was having none of it. [Laughs] So, regardless of the music’s simplicity, it was a contemporary, sudden problem inside the style. I fucking beloved it! Damned cool experiences.”
Requested what finally turned of the mission, Anselmo mentioned: “There was a slight Norge fallout between the natives, and I did not wanna get caught in the course of that exact combat. So, the band by no means materialized. All I’ve left is three poorly mummified-sounding songs, recorded and blended terribly uncooked, with one track that includes place-keeper-style vocals. Hardly spectacular.”
Philip went on to say that he nonetheless retains in contact with Satyr, though he hinted that he and the SATYRICON frontman weren’t essentially musically aligned. “Satyr kinda freaked me out again within the late Nineteen Nineties to early 2000s with the kind of bands he appreciated — particularly U.S. acts who have been widespread on the time,” Anselmo mentioned. “I will simply depart it at that. I could not imagine it. Horrible music style, in my view, however music is subjective. Satyr all the time had large issues on his thoughts, and there is a palpable starvation inside him. I could not have predicted the route they’d go in, however, reality be informed, I performed no function within the scribing of any SATYRICON file. That is all on them.”
