Tag: Darkthrone
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The land beyond the forests
On that day, April 8, 1991, in the house they rented in Krokstad outside Oslo, when Mayhem vocalist Per Yngve “Pelle/Dead” Ohlin (1969–1991), after attempting to take his own life with knives in the woods, put a shotgun to his face and pulled the trigger, he was wearing a white T-shirt that read “I love…
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The Black Metal Police
In the beginning, we were the music police. We could freeze out bands. Gylve Fenris «Fenriz» Nagell, Lydverket spesial: Black metal, 2003. My translation. Gylve Fenris “Fenriz” Nagell and Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum are sitting on opposite sides of the beige corner sofa in a simple cabin in Trysil. Ted has just lit up his…