Jerry Kurunen of Rauta conducted an interview with drummer Kjetil-Vidar “Frost” Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON at this year’s Beyond The Gates festival in early August in Bergen, Norway. You can now watch the chat below.

Asked what fans can expect from SATYRICON‘s upcoming studio album, Frost said: “I think that whatever this new album is gonna be, because we don’t know for sure yet, but it’s gonna be a more conventional album in a way, but there’s gonna be a lot about it that is not conventional. We are looking into some different ideas, but I cannot reveal too much about them. That wouldn’t make sense at this point. But somehow, the journey that Satyr (SATYRICON frontman Sigurd Wongraven) was on when he worked on the (Edvard) Munch project will also have a pretty grave effect on what is happening with this new material. And I think that it will somehow reflect on how we think musically. But you might also say that we are a bit more back in a more conventional landscape, if that term makes sense in SATYRICON‘s world. And I think that the album will be very, very varied. But you can always expect the unexpected in this band, and that continues to be true now and definitely not less — perhaps even a little bit more after that Munch period.”

Regarding when SATYRICON will release the new album and whether there will be any touring in support of it, Frost said: “We have made most of the material for the album, and we have been rehearsing it and going a little bit back and forth with that material now, doing some demos and stuff for a while. So we will take that to an end, record it, find out exactly what to make out of the release, because that’s gonna be a thing that people will find out when it’s done. And I expect that we will somehow tour with the album — perhaps not a conventional club tour. Could be something else. Could be something more like doing special shows with some elements that add something visually or musically or both. And we know that the band will at least be active as a live band also in the future. And we have some tours planned. If you had asked me one year ago, I would have said that this is probably not gonna happen again ever, but people that do follow us on the Internet probably know that we are gonna be touring in the spring again. And there is probably gonna be more of that as well. So what I can say now is that the new album and touring following that is gonna fill a lot of the next two or three years. I’m pretty sure.”