SATYRICON Frontman To Host Wine-Tasting Event During INFERNO Festival

Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven, renowned vocalist/guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band SATYRICON, will host an informal wine-tasting event during this year's Inferno Festival at the Clarion Royal Christiania hotel in Oslo, Norway on Friday, April 22 from 15.30 to 17.00. Satyr will introduce his own wines and share his passion for well-made traditional wines. This tasting event is suitable for anyone who likes wine.

Wongraven last year partnered with Luca Roagna (pictured below with Satyr),a fifth-generation winemaker from Piedmont, Italy, to launch Satyr's own brand of wine. Wongraven chose the best wines from the Roagna winery and made them available with his name on each bottle in gothic letters and black background with an outline illustration of the devil on the label.

Two wines are available from the Wongraven brand:

* Langhe Rosso Alleanza Nero di Wongraven 2009

* Barolo Unione Nero di Wongraven 2006

Wongraven and Roagna first met in the spring of 2003 while SATYRICON was on tour in Italy and spent several months last year creating two classic wines that represent a combination of Roagna's skilled vineyard work and Satyr's vision of traditional Piedmontese wines.

"When I explain my role in the process to musician friends who have no knowledge of wine, I tell them that Luca created the songs and recorded the album, while I mixed it," Wongraven told Adressa.no in an interview.

Authenticity is the common denominator in Satyr's music and wine.

Wongraven admits that he himself is skeptical when he sees other people lending their names to wine brands.

"I think that people who know me understand why I have chosen to lend my name to these wines," he explained. "I have made wines that I am proud of."

Wongraven is currently working on a book about wine, to be released in the fall.