SATYRICON singer Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven joined PANTERA on stage this previous Friday (June 23) on the Tons Of Rock competition in Oslo, Norway to carry out the Philip Anselmo-fronted band’s basic track “Stroll”. Fan-filmed video of Satyr‘s look will be seen beneath.

Again in 2018, Satyr mentioned that his EIBON mission finally disintegrated because 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 twenty 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’s any likelihood 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 certainly one thing that we might like to do. However it’s laborious to make that occur. I am not likely in contact with Fenriz, and neither is Philip. I assume 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 p.c 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 believe that we must always have completed it once 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 complete mission. That is all there’s to it. [We] can speak about this and that, however that is what it comes right down to. On the time, he was past fucked up. Yeah, however he actually was. We have been within the studio attempting to do issues. I would come out from the recording room, [and] I would discover him mendacity, handed out on drugs, heroin, no matter, on the ground, together with his entourage surrounding him, not desirous to intervene or do something that might offend him, as a result of he was the large man. After which I would be pondering 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 once I journey from the opposite facet 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 actually upset me. However I contemplate Philip considered one of my easiest associates and an impressive musician, so, in a method or one other, I’d like to do extra music with Philip in some unspecified time in the future, that is for positive.”

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 little bit bit simpler. I am unable to bear 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 once we have been really on tour with them and had rather a lot to do with them, however in hindsight, I’ve grown to love their music. I believe the [Abbott] brothers [Vinnie and Darrell], the best way they work together musically, it is very 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, in fact, but it surely’s additionally… he [was] very inventive from a rhythmical perspective. And I believe Vince‘s approach of taking part in drums and taking all of the awkard timing of Dime‘s riffs and making it a little bit bit extra highly effective and simple together with his drum preparations was a novel high quality that Vince had. And Rex [Brown] offering a powerful spine together with his taking part in, after which Philip being simply some of the distinctive frontmen and singers in trendy heavy metallic historical past, I suppose.”

Additionally in 2018s, 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 attempting to work on EIBON within the studio. “However Satyr was at all times a tough employee; he was the man who led,” Philip mentioned. “I discovered it attention-grabbing from a musician’s standpoint. We performed primitive black metallic, so, for my part, 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 throughout the style. I fucking cherished it! Damned cool experiences.”

Requested what finally grew to become 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 specific combat. So, the band by no means materialized. All I’ve left is three poorly mummified-sounding songs, recorded and combined 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 Nineties to early 2000s with the kind of bands he favored — particularly U.S. acts who have been common on the time,” Anselmo mentioned. “I will simply depart it at that. I could not imagine it. Horrible music style, for my part, however music is subjective. Satyr at all times had massive issues on his thoughts, and there is a palpable starvation inside him. I could not have predicted the path they’d go in, however, reality be informed, I performed no function within the scribing of any SATYRICON document. That is all on them.”