Satariel is a

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

band from

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

founded in 1993 in Boden.

History

Satariel recorded its first demo in 1994; titled ''Thy Heavens' Fall'', which consisted of traditional

black metal Black metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include Tempo#Beats per minute, fast tempos, a Screaming (music)#Black metal, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted Electric guitar, guitars played with tr ...

sounds. The band released their debut album, ''Lady Lust Lilith'', in 1998 on Pulverised Records. Over its first four albums up to 2007, the band increasingly mixed

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

with

and

technical death metal Technical death metal (also known as tech death) is a musical subgenre of death metal with particular focus on instrumental skill and complex songwriting. Technical and progressive experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early ...

, sometimes drawing comparisons to

Opeth Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. The band incorporates folk music, folk, blues, classical music, classical, and jazz elements into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from deat ...

and

Insomnium Insomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Joensuu in 1997. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray darkness, sorrow, loss, pain, and nature. Their music includes elements of progressive metal, black metal, folk meta ...

. After a seven-year hiatus, Satariel released three-song EP ''White Ink: Chapter 1'' in 2014.

Members

Current members

* Pär Johansson –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Magnus Alakangas –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Mikael Granqvist –

* Mikael Granbacke –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

* Robert Sundelin –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Past members

* Mats Ömalm – guitar * Andreas Nilzon – drums * Fredrik Andersson – guitar * Simon Johansson – guitar

Discography

*''Lady Lust Lilith'' (Pulverised Records, 1998; re-released by

Hammerheart Records Hammerheart Records (known as Karmageddon Media between 2004 and 2010) is a Dutch independent record label specializing in death metal, black metal, doom metal and folk metal bands from around the world. The label was founded in 1995 and is current ...

, 2003) *''Phobos & Deimos'' (Hammerheart Records, 2002) *''Hydra'' (Cold Records/

Regain Records Regain Records is a Swedish-based independent record label. The label predominantly released death metal and black metal albums. Regain Records was founded from what remained of the former label, Wrong Again Records, by Per Gyllenbäck in 1997. ...

Candlelight Records Candlelight Records is a British record label based in London, founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bass guitarist Lee Barrett in 1993. The record label originally specialized in black metal, but quickly expanded to various other forms of hea ...

, 2005) *''Chifra'' (Pulverised Records, 2007) *''White Ink: Chapter 1'' (Alakangas Media, 2014)

References

External links

Satariel Homepage

Satariel @ Myspace

Satariel @ Last.fm

Satariel @ Facebook
{{Satariel Swedish melodic death metal musical groups Swedish blackened death metal musical groups Swedish black metal musical groups Musical groups established in 1993 Musical groups from Norrbotten County Boden, Sweden