Satyricon released its 2013 self-titled album, and in 2015 announced it was working on a followup and a covers album. Frontman Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which threw a bit of a wrench into the band's plans to say the very least. Satyricon came back strong in 2017 with its new album Deep Calleth Upon Deep, and according to Satyr, the band still hasn't dropped the idea of doing a covers album called Formative Oddities.
Satyr tells Heavy the album won't be obvious cover songs by bands like Black Sabbath, but instead stuff that spans folk, punk, hard rock, and generally non-metal stuff.
It's something that we've been playing around with for the last three or four years in between other things, and hopefully we’ll have time to pursue that next year at some point. When we eventually do it, it is going to be called Formative Oddities' and the reason for that is because that's exactly what it is going to be about. It's gonna be about stuff that helped shape our musical taste, but I don't wanna do something overly obvious like putting covers of Venom and Black Sabbath in there. There's gonna be some folk music; there's gonna be some classic hard rock, some punk rock and perhaps also we'll try to do some versions of electronica things that are not within the category of typical extreme metal or all of the obvious ones.
Formative Oddities should be interesting if it really does stray entirely from metal, because seriously – do we really need another heavy band doing another heavy cover of another heavy song that you've heard a billion times at this point?
