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Saturnalia Temple

Black Magic Metal [vinyl 7" on the way]

About Me

Saturnalia Temple is the musical potion born from ages spent in occult strife. Inspired by diabolic inner experiences, encounters with Qliphotic energies and entities, psychedelic trips and the Northern climate. Musically deep down in the late sixties/early seventies Black Magic Rock, heavy metal and deep stuff.The band started with Tommie who invited drummer Paul and guitarist Konstantin. Bass player Peter was accepted into the temple in March 2008. Our first demo UR was released during 2007, and has just been released as a cassette release (to make the black gods happy) by Nuclear Winter Records, to be followed by a 7 vinyl ep in late summer.
We have been into the occult, and heavy dark music for a long time, and are doing everything old school. As the under title to the track UR suggests, "Born to Late", but not only a hint to the sixties, but to the creation of the world itself. Saturnalia Temple is not merely riding the retro-trip, but a journey of black musical initiation from the Qliphotic spheres, a timeless chant channelled into the music-ritual.We are here to follow the old school tradition of hard rock and blues, thus making a lot of noise, spreading general hypnosis and evil vibrations.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/30/2006
Band Website: This one for now
Band Members: Tommie: Guitar/Vocals, Konstantin: Guitar, Peter: Bass, Paul: Drums.
Influences: In music: Sir Lord Baltimore, The Doors, Hawkwind, Phantom's Divine Comedy, Witchfinder General, Amon Duul2, High Tide, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Black Widow, Jimi Hendrix, Pentagram, Leaf Hound, Saint Vitus, Manilla Road, Alice Cooper Group, Cloven Hoof, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Coven, Grand Funk Railroad, Blue Cheer, Gong, Anvil, Stooges, Motorhead, Sleep, Monster Magnet, Autopsy etc. In text: Austin Osman Spare, Johannes Bureus, H.P Lovecraft, Dion Fortune, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Isidur Ducasse, Gregor Gregorius, Carlos Castaneda, Hermann Hesse, Lemmy etc.
Sounds Like: A dark Swedish forest at night, while out of the body. Hard Electric Blues
Record Label: div
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

9.5/10 review from Metal Observer

SATURNALIA TEMPLE are a rather excellent band that could best be described as "ELECTRIC WIZARD covering ELECTRIC WIZARD," or something along those lines. Basically get an ELECTRIC WIZARD album, make i...
Posted by Saturnalia Temple on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:50:00 PST

Cassette Out Now! June 08

We are very happy to announce that Nuclear Winter Records ( http://www.nuclearwinter.cjb.net ) have released a cassette version of UR, our first recording. It fits our mood to capture our musical ritu...
Posted by Saturnalia Temple on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:10:00 PST

Top ten of 2007 at Powerline Magazine

http://powerlinead.blogspot.com/ (click on January 6)10 - Saturnalia Temple - UR (demo): Swedish doomsters add touches of psychedelic drone and elements of traditional death doom to stoner heavy meta...
Posted by Saturnalia Temple on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:25:00 PST

Review at Live4metal

Saturnalia Temple  Saturnalia Temple (Self Released) Review by Chris DavisonThey're very mysterious, these Saturnalia Temple chaps. All I can really gather is that they're Swedish, that they have an ...
Posted by Saturnalia Temple on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:32:00 PST

CD-R still available

*OBS! due to the overwhelming interest in this release, we ran out of covers unexpectedly, and the printer, which we already payed, is closed for the summer. We will not be able to ship any cd's until...
Posted by Saturnalia Temple on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:31:00 PST