I noticed that there is a printing error in the logo of this release, namely the "horns" in the Y of the logo.

Let’s get on with the review…

I’m not going to lie to you, this album made me very worried for a while. Fear not, there are plenty of blastbeats and blackened riffs here, and this is not Satyricon selling out. Those are the albums that Satyricon are most well known for and the albums that made them one of the best black metal bands of the second wave. It's an demanding listen to say the least. If you've been waiting for a copy of Rebel on vinyl look no further! This is a tie for my favorite black metal album of all time with Funeral Mists "salvation".

The band's first three albums typify the Norwegian black metal style. Surely there were hints of changes with the prior album, Nemesis Divina, but where that stood at upon some glorious precipice with its brazen production values and epic, absorbing composition, Rebel Extravaganza takes us down from the mountains and into the yearning, sinful caverns of human spite.What comes to your mind when you think of Satyricon?

Thats what made them unique and its very sad that they didnt use any of those things on this album.Satyricon is a band every true metalhead knows, so there is no need for the introduction.

Alongside acts such as Emperor, they blazed ahead of their peers. Satyricon were one of the first black metal bands to incorporate folk instruments and other thing of that nature into their black metal sound.

Mit ihrer neuen Ausrichtung polarisierten SATYRICON auf dem Album "Rebel Extravaganza" vor 20 Jahren enorm. This is simply black metal riffing mixed in with elements that seem out of place, like elements of hard rock which come out of nowhere. Probably masterpieces like Dark Medieval Times, The Shadowthrone, and Nemesis Divina. Rebel Extravaganza I'm not sure if it's the fact that it's been remastered or cut at 45 RPM, all i know is it is great! I was listening to “The Age of Nero” the other day pondering over the huge metamorphosis Satyr and Frost went through, trying to figure where it all started… and I did; on the album reviewed here. This is sad yet not totally shocking. The previous album, If Rebel Extravaganza seems a mite fragmented in its intents, that fact rests solely on its shoulders as the 'transitional' period for the band.

Believe it or not, this Back on Black pressing is good compared to many of their other pressings. It makes one question all other music. This is a tie for my favorite black metal album of all time with Funeral Mists "salvation".

The music itself would be 5*.

Not only does it have an atmosphere but it invokes a much stronger feeling of limitless possibility in the listener.

I informed Halvor Bodin (the designer) on Instagram and he confirmed the error. It’s not that I don’t like “The Age of Nero”, I like it a lot; it’s just that the stalwarts of black metal are a bit hard to recognize behind these hypnotic, friendly grooves, especially by those (not me) who used to wake up early and go to bed late at the sounds of “Dark Medieval Times”…“Break down all conventional forms and create chaos to reinvent orderSatyricon has long been one of my favorite black metal bands.

“satyricon. Since its fourth album in 1999, the band has strayed from this style and included elements of traditional heavy metal in their sound. Released as follow up to a much more classical sounding black metal album, "Rebel…" scared away many fans and enraged critics.

The hidden track zero (pregap accessible by rewinding the CD from the start) is "Kjærlighet fra Gud" ("Love from God", J.N.L. ... Rebel Extravaganza Satyricon. A completely flawless album in every sense of the word.

Extravagantly mediocre, supremely underwhelming - 60% ... That in itself is the major downfall of Rebel Extravaganza.

No longer simply content with haunting the isolated, winter shadows of some fantasy northern clime, Frost and Satyr made the decision that they'd modernize their lyrical focus and pursue a more straightforward, rock-inflected path of black metal, sort of a newer take on the ghastly Hellhammer without resorting to most of the same riffing patterns and vocals. The best Satyricon album by far! I won't bash their other albums in this review but I will just say that Satyricon anno "Rebel Extravaganza" was a band at the absolute hight of their power, prowess and brutality. The vinyl version has it right. Die großspurige Ankündigung vom richtungsweisenden modernen Black Metal Album fanden nicht bei jedem Fan ein offenes Ohr. Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, formed in 1991 in Oslo.Satyr and Frost have been the band's core members since 1993.

Because this album is boring, repetitive, way too long, generic, the list goes on and on. The point is none of the first three albums this band released were any of the words that just described this album. The drumming I find no fault with, but at the same time I also find very little to like, either; the blastbeats are wonderful when they appear, but too often Frost seems to be content grooving with relatively simplistic beats that don't advance the music at all, and combined with the rather erratic riffing I find after listening to RE I do not remember much of anything.

With this album they leave behind what made them famous. It's also a very daring album.

Interested to buy "The Scorn Torrent" 12" that was issued with the Rebel Extravaganza LP 27361 64182.

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My favorite Satyricon album (and one of my favorite albums of all time) will always be 'The Shadowthrone', drenched as it is in esoteric medievalism and folk melodies.