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Nietzsche, or perhaps not?
On the back cover of Bathory’s 1991 album Twilight Of The Gods, we find a quotation signed “Friedrich Nietzsche 1871”. Through releases such as this, Bathory had a major influence on the emergence of the Norwegian black metal scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is likely that many of those who listened
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Come into the wild forest …
In November 2023, I was contacted by Thomas Østerhaug, editor of Arr – idéhistorisk tidsskrift (a journal of the history of ideas), who had taken a look at my book Snø og granskog (Snow and Spruce Forest) and found it interesting – asking if I would be willing “to write an article for Arr on