A new satanic panic is upon us! Satanic North is what happens when you let two well-known Finnish metal artists stare into the abyss for too long. Enter Petri Lindroos (Ensiferum, Warmen) and Janne Parviainen (Ensiferum), far-travelled, well-versed musicians who have been staring into said abyss long enough for the abyss to stare back. And it liked what it saw: Behold the black metal brotherhood Satanic North, the sons of a new northern darkness, delivering a self-titled debut basking in ravishing grimness. With Satanic North, a new power arises, a relentless yet sublime black metal cult ready to reign in blood over the desolate and wintry landscape that is Finnish black metal. Executed with ferocity, pitch-black passion and a weakness for the mythical forbearers of this most haunting and cathartic of all metal subgenres, Satanic North are ready to take on the world horns first, a new cult born under a funeral moon. And it happened because it had to happen. Eventually. Both Petri and Janne felt the urgent wish and dire need to express themselves in a new band for quite some time now. A band that sounded unlike all these international phenomenons the two friends have been cooking up in the past decades – Ensiferum, Warmen, Norther, just to name a few. Those are and were all great bands, to be sure. But they were missing something: None of them was a black metal band! None of them was a ferocious, freezing cold, blistering blizzard of traditional, grim, northern darkness. None of them, in short, was possessed enough.
