SATYRICON - Part One - LIVE At The OPERA by 2015 Album HQ and Hi Fi

Contrary to popular belief, Satyricon was never called Omnipotence. According to Exhurtum, he and Wargod started the band in 1990, playing death metal influenced by Cadaver, Carcass and Napalm Death. Lemarchand joined shortly thereafter. At that time they were called Eczema. In 1991 they decided to start playing black metal, so the name was changed to Satyricon and then Satyr joined the band. After the first demo Exhurtum was kicked from the band, while Wargod left the music scene and became a UN soldier afterwards. Lemarchand was kicked out after the second demo.

Satyr was the owner of the now-defunct Moonfog Productions.

In December 2004, live guitarists Steinar Gundersen and Obsidian Claw were arrested in Canada for allegedly drugging and raping a woman in their tour bus after a show in Toronto. The remainder of the tour with 3 Inches of Blood was canceled. The charges against the pair were later dropped.

Back in 1999, Satyr, Fenriz (Darkthrone) Phil Anselmo (Pantera), Killjoy (Necrophagia) and Maniac (Mayhem) started a "supergroup" called Eibon. They were supposed to record a full-length, but due to their heavy schedule, plans were changed. Maniac left the band, and they released one track titled "Mirror Soul Jesus" on the Moonfog Productions compilation Moonfog 2000 - A Different Perspective. They also recorded an unnamed song, which could be downloaded from the old Moonfog Productions website.

Satyricon's video for the song "Mother North" is played in the movie "Spun". They agreed to it on the condition that the director of "Spun", Jonas Åkerlund, directed their next music video for the song "Fuel for Hatred".