Apparently Satyricon have signed with Roadrunner Records and are set to release their new album on November 3rd. Why, I have no fucking idea. Here’s the story from Blabbermouth:

Norwegian black metal band SATYRICON has set The Age Of Nero as the title of its new album, due on November 3 via Roadrunner Records. The CD was recorded in part at Sound City studios in Van Nuys, California, where METALLICA recently recorded its forthcoming LP. A European headlining tour will follow beginning on November 12 in Stavanger, Norway and ending in Hamburg, Germany on December 20. Opening all shows will be up-and-coming UK thrashers EVILE.

When asked about the involvement of producer Joe Barresi (TOOL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) in SATYRICON’s new CD, the group’s vocalist Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven recently told Norway’s VG newspaper, “Joe has been a technician on practically the whole project. There might have been some misunderstandings in the Norwegian media about his role — it is me who is the producer; Joe’s role is to know which buttons to push to create the sound that I want.”

Speaking about the first time he played the new album for Roadrunner, Satyr said, “I had nothing to say to them. I just played the album loud, and thought that if they they don’t like it, it’s their problem. I am so sure about what we have done this time that I don’t think about changing a single thing. The door is closed, and we are so much on the right path, that we are not turning other left or right on this. But they thought it was really good.”

SATYRICON will support CRADLE OF FILTH on a North American tour in January/February.

Since when does Roadrunner sign metal bands? I guess this is a step towards regaining credibility among metal fans after abandoning the genre in the mid-90s, but… Satyricon fucking suck, so I don’t see how this helps the label at all in any regard. I can hardly wait to not listen to this. I won’t even waste the effort to steal it. Ugh…