Satanic Warmaster is a Finnish black metal solo project formed in 1998 by Lauri Penttilä[1][2][3] in Lappeenranta, who performs under the stage name Werwolf.
Satanic Warmaster has sold tens of thousands of albums worldwide without the support of any major distribution companies or record labels.
"[19] Satanic Warmaster was removed from the 2011 Hellfest lineup in France after backlash from other artists and members of the audience threatening the festival with violence.
"[20] In 2014, a Satanic Warmaster show in the Netherlands was cancelled, according to Werwolf, due to direct threats to the booking agencies and organizers from anti-fascist groups.
[21] In 2016, Satanic Warmaster's United Kingdom debut was forced to move to another location that was undisclosed until before the concert, as the initial venue in Glasgow backed out once "members of the public" highlighted the project's supposed links to neo-Nazism.
[25] In a 2003 interview for the Finnish metal webzine Imperiumi, Werwolf 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.
For example I've written symbolic tales of creation and rebirth influenced by folklore, and totalist and elitist visions of what Black Metal's brotherhood should be like.
[26] In January 2015 Werwolf explained his ideology and the protests towards his music even further, "If someone becomes a “nazi” just by working with or hanging around “the wrong kind of people”, should it not be true in all possible contexts?