Satanic Warmaster is a black metal band from Lappeenranta in southern Finland. The musician "Satanic Tyrant Werewolf" (real name Lauri Penttilä) began recording under this name in 1999, after leaving Horna, and has also played in various side projects, such as Pest (split up in 1999), Blasphemous Evil, Shatargat and Blutrache.
The band's lyrics deal mainly with nature, folklore, Satanism, and "occult and warlike themes".
In a 2003 interview for t...
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Satanic Warmaster is a black metal band from Lappeenranta in southern Finland. The musician "Satanic Tyrant Werewolf" (real name Lauri Penttilä) began recording under this name in 1999, after leaving Horna, and has also played in various side projects, such as Pest (split up in 1999), Blasphemous Evil, Shatargat and Blutrache.
The band's lyrics deal mainly with nature, folklore, Satanism, and "occult and warlike themes".
In a 2003 interview for the Finnish metal webzine Imperiumi, Tyrant Werewolf explained his personal beliefs in a detailed manner: "Pan-European traditional Satanism is a comprehensive ideological and philosophical alignment, which aims for the bettering of an individual and the most beneficial elbow space through the acknowledgement (and partially harnessing) of the dark and destructive (and thus initially creative) force of nature and cosmos. Excluding anything has never been the best option. Satanism constitutes my world view about 100%".
In a 2004 interview,...
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