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SATANIC ART

Dødheimsgard

Tech/Extreme Prog Metal


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3.54 | 10 ratings | 2 reviews | 10% 5 stars

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Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, released in 1998

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Oneiroscope (1:31)
2. Traces of Reality (7:07)
3. Symptom (2:31)
4. The Paramount Empire (3:10)
5. Wrapped in Plastic (1:40)

Total Time 15:59

Line-up / Musicians

- Aldrahn / vocals, guitars
- Mr. Fixit / guitars
- Cerberus / bass
- Apollyon / drums
- Mr. Magic Logic (Svein Egil Hatlevik) / keyboards, piano
- Galder / guitars
- Stine Lunde / violins (2)

Releases information

EP Moonfog (May 1998)

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DØDHEIMSGARD Satanic Art ratings distribution


3.54
(10 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(10%)
10%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(50%)
50%
Good, but non-essential (40%)
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Collectors/fans only (0%)
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Review by UMUR
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
3 stars The Satanic Art EP from Dødmeimsgard is meant to bridge the gap between the previous album Monumental Possesion and the next one 666 International. And there are traces of both albums in the songs on Satanic Art.

The EP starts with a short piano intro which sounds like music from a horror movie and then into the first song Traces of reality which is by far the best track here. It consists of many different parts and I hear some Dimmu Borgir influences in the first part of the song especially in the part with the violin which is pretty symphonic. It´s a style Dødheimsgard has never tried before. Later on there are some unmistakable Dødheimsgard riffs and industial hints. The song also has a strong influence from Emperor in the fast chaotic riffing. It´s a very impressive song indeed.

The next two songs are not quite as exciting as they are more primitive and Monumental Possession comes to mind, but there are still a strong Emperor influence too. The last song is another horror like piano piece which I think I recognize as a different variant of the intro to 666 International. Conceptual Continuity as Zappa would have said.

The musicianship has taken a big notch up since Monumental Possession and there are even some complex parts here and there. The drumming has to be noted as they play very fast. Hyper blast beats at times and it´s amazing you can hear what is happening at this speed which is of course due to the excellent production on Satanic Art.

Dødheimsgard is on their way to becoming more experimental with this EP, but of course no one could have expected what would happen next even though there are experiments on Satanic Art. 666 International is a groundbreaking release and Satanic Art serves as a fine teaser to that one. 3 stars is my rating as there are both very good and some not so memorable moments on Satanic Art.

Review by siLLy puPPy
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic
4 stars After two albums of fairly orthodox and good old fashioned second wave Norwegian black metal, DODHEIMSGARD started to get a lot more experimental and playful with their demented and devilish musical madness. Serving as a tradition of sort, they released an EP titled SATANIC ART in 1998, two years after their second album "Monumental Possession" and a year before their third "666 Internation." SATANIC ART finds the band at an interesting halfway point between their second wave black metal origins and their avant-industrial leanings that follow.

SATANIC ART finds not only another lineup change but a few guest musicians adding all kinds of interesting new elements to the band's new fangled black metal smorgasbord. This EP despite its short duration offers many transitions and not only musically. Svein Egil Hatlevik aka Mr. Dingy Sweet Talker Women Stalker (Fleurety) would debut as keyboardist and Galder (Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child) would pick up extra guitar duties but only on this one release. Cerberus replaced Jonas Alver on bass.

"Oneiroscope" introduces the new Dodheimsgard with a piano piece that sounds like demented carnival music in a minor chord or even a psycho-drama flick soundtrack piece with lots of murder scenes. While "Traces Of Reality" reverts into the super bombastic black metal of the past, it is punctuated by a "White Zombie-esque" sampling, eerie atmospheric keyboard effects and most surprisingly the guest musician Paganini virtuosity of guest violinist Stine Lunde. "Symptom" continues the black metal bombast but adds some underpinnings of industrial metal that would surface on "666 International." "The Paramount Empire" also sticks to black metal a la "Monumental Possesion" but with a more loosy-goosy construct. The Finale "Wrapped In Plastic" is another piano driven outro.

Although this EP originally only clocked in at just under sixteen minutes, it exhibited more diverse elements than the first two albums combined. SATANIC ART has been virtually unattainable in a physical format at a decent price for two decades but has found at last a much needed rerelease in 2018 on Peaceville and adds a couple bonus tracks ("Black Treasure" and "Symptom (Alternate)." SATANIC ART is like dipping into the pool of avant-garde possibilities where obviously DODHEIMSGARD got the experimental bug and never looked back. Good for them because this is where they got really interesting and put themselves on the map in the metal world. Despite only being a little EP, this one is a monumental moment in experimental extreme metal.

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