Cult of Daath, Flames of Hell, Hooded Menace, Alpha Centauri, Sonic Ritual, Blackholicus, Noia Italy, Aria/Apur, Lonewolf,

Résistance,
Satinblack, Argus, Natur, Shackles, Zöldïer Noïz, Noia, Bunker 66, Wastelander, Black Magic, Razor Fist, Cast Iron, Repellent, Hellshock,
Trench Hell, Whip, Hellrealm, Banished Force, Slogstorm, Death Beast, War Crimes, Bastardator, Creep Colony, Tyrant Swe, Jex Thoth,
Nocturnal, Mдniac, Deathroner, Teitanblood, Bastardator, Morne (slow punk like Axegrinder, Amebix), Karnax, Witch Usa, Virus Norway,
Vomitor, Gasmask Terror, Hell Darkness, Kvoteringen, Asta Kask, Audiopain, Hour of 13, The Ghost Demo, Bölzer, Blood Incantation,
Hellbringer, Urfaust, Ill Omen…

FINGERNAILS ’88, early SAXON, OZZY '80-'86, TRUST

Watchtower’s Control & Resistance, Dream Theater’s When Day & Dream Unite, Steely Dan’s Gaucho & Aja, Rush’s Moving Pictures, etc.

skullkrushing armageddon with IMPIETY, angel corpse, swedish GEHENNAH and mercenary album by bolt thrower. In mid 80s only
MAYHEM was working for the global underground in Norway, and of course SLAYER MAG. late 80s came cadaver and darkthrone.

BM was already perfect in 89: OBSCURITY damnations pride demo 88 POISON into the abyss demo 87 MEFISTO demo 1 85 MORBID
december moon demo 87 or 88 MAYHEM deathcrush 87 (EXTREMELY important for me) and live in leipzig on tape years before it came out
TREBLINKA demos and 7″ NECROVORE demo 87 first VADER demo with bad sound MORBID ANGEL abominations of desolation (on tape
years before release) MERCYFUL FATE SODOM 3 first DESTRUCTION 3 first VENOM BATHORY CELTIC FROST HELLHAMMER
ROTTING CHRIST satanas tedeum demo 89 PENTAGRAM chile demos ONSLAUGHT power from hell POSSESSED SARCOFAGO inri
SAMAEL worship him (never had demos or 7″, sorry) BLASPHEMY demo and album MASTER’S HAMMER (czech compilation and RITUAL
aka THE 1ST NORWEGIAN BM ALBUM hehe). Then early 90s: grymyrk demo THORNS 91, IMMORTAL and most importantly VON and
BURZUM. Also GORGOROTH demo and wrath of the tyrant by EMPEROR but the split with Enslaved, I only like the ENSLAVED side.

Full Speed Ahead Vol. II by Fenriz (Darkthrone) and Hades (Omega) 1. Toxic (USA) - "Heart Attack" 2. Banshee (Canada) - "Breakdown"

Vulture, Ripper (Chile), Hexvessel, Blood Ceremony, Naevus, Spell, Tarot, Eternal Champion, Sumerlands. Also, BLACK VIPER.

F: DISCIPLINE (Holland) to DEAD KENNEDYS, BAD RELIGION to WORLD BURNS TO DEATH, THE SONICS to NEW YORK DOLLS,
TESTORS to SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, PUKE to RAPED TEENAGERS (fave Swedish punk bands), from DISRUPT to first DISFEAR.
I rated all our albums and what came up statically was that our best albums were under a funeral moon and the cult is alive. Now, I tend to
like songs or riffs the most but as a whole I’d say under a funeral moon is my fave.

I don’t have a strong Norwegian focus at all. Black Viper is the new best upcoming band from here, and Black Magic is the best, we all know
that. And they keep on delivering, Jon is quite the talent.

Actually, what does ‘heavy metal’ mean to you anyway? Is it a sound, an attitude or something else entirely?
Easy. Put on the first Metal Church album. A-side. There you have it. HM means to me eternally many recordings and styles but you’d be
smart to take my initial advice here. “Beyond the Black” and “Gods of Wrath”. There you have it. (Man, that must be my best answer ever in
an interview.)

FENRIZ: “Experimented” sounds like we are mad scientists in a lab … but we’re just making what we need to do, each on our own since
summer ’91 when I decided we’d start making songs on our own. We’re driven by coincidence — it is very free form. With The Cult Is Alive …
well what lead up to that was that Ted said let’s get a portable studio of our own and then I knew it was going to sound rougher than ever.
Knowing that really knocked out some walls in my songwriting, but it was Ted that wrote the single, the rather punky “Too Old, Too Cold,” a
totally untypical song from Ted’s and also considering he probably doesn’t own “Feel The Darkness” with Poison Idea. And our only “music
video” followed that song, the rest of the album is more or less thrash without being played like thrash, black without being played like usual
black, unusual punk, unusual death, strange combos of Motorhead and Celtic Frost (that would be me) and last but not least my fave song
“Forebyggende Krig,” which once and for all cements my eternal love for Dream Death and for those about to rock-song structure…

FENRIZ: Our style and Slough Feg has very little in common, mostly because they cram alot of notes into their riffs and I do not, also rhythms
are very different but it’s great honour to be mentioned with them as they fought the HEAVY METAL fight in the darkest year of heavy metal:
1998. So drink some beer in the kitchen out of a horn for them!

From The Cult Is Alive came The Trilogy [of] Fuck Off And Die, Dark Thrones And Black Flags, Circle The Wagon, each of them more heavy
metal than the other, which is basically what we are doing as a band — moving very slowly backwards. When we started we were inspired by
1986-1987 and since then we used 23 years to move mainly to 1979-1985 where we are now, haha!!

The main change for this album is not one black metal riff and only one bass drum on eight of the songs. It was what I needed to do, but it’s
hard — I always played with double kick since 1987, so now there’s even more nerve — as in nervousness — in my drumming. Oh, we also
had the guitar amp in another room than the drum set, so they don’t spill into one another.

FENRIZ: Those who still don’t respect that raw music like rock ‘n’ roll and heavy metal must have organic or raw sound are the traitors. And
all those sissies who accepted that Cradle Of Filth could actually be called black metal … that is a lot of people turning their backs on me and
black metal. I didn’t turn my back on black metal, it turned it’s back on me — the FALSE black metal created by press and misunderstanding
kids. 1981-1993 was best, then there was not one black metal recording with [a] polished, soulless sound.

IN SOLITUDE (Sweden), DEVASTATOR (Florida, USA), FAUSTCOVEN (Norway), DEATHRONER (Canada), DEATH BEAST (USA), SPEED
TRAP (Finland), BLADE OF THE RIPPER (USA), BLIZZARD (Germany), CORRUPT (Sweden), CAST IRON (Finland), THE COSMIC
WHEELS (USA), CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY (Italia), BASTARD PRIEST (Sweden), SALUTE (UK), REVENGE (Greece), SONIC RITUAL
(Sweden), PUKE (Sweden), VOMITOR (Australia), SADISTIC INTENT (USA), KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR (Spain), HANGÖVER
(Poland), MIDNIGHT (USA), DISHAMMER (Spain), PENTAGRAM (Chile), EVIL ARMY (USA), NOIA (Firenze, Italy), SELFISH (Finland),
ZEMIAL (Greece/Ger), HELL DARKNESS (Isr), WASTELANDER (Michigan, USA), ATOMIC ROAR (Brazil), G.A.T.E.S. (Japan),
SANCTUM/DETONIZE (Seattle, USA), EM RUINAS (Brazil), VULCANO (Brazil), AFTER THE BOMBS (Canada), GRAVE DESECRATOR
(Brazil), HARBINGER (MICHIGAN, USA), ANGUISH (USA), IRON KOBRA (Germany), HOODED MENACE (Finland), POWER FROM
HELL (Brazil), BLACKHOLICUS (Texas, USA), ORDER OF THE VULTURE (Oregon, USA), TRENCH HELL (Australia), HIGH SPIRITS
(USA), MURDERESS (USA), NECROVOMIT (Italy), APOKALYPTIC RAIDS (Brazil), HELLISH CROSSFIRE (Germany), ZÖLDÏER NOÏZ
(France), EIDOMANTUM (Sweden/Latvia), ÖRK BASTARDS (Russia), OBLITERATION (Norway), INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL (Germany),
HELLSHOCK (USA), SUMMON THE CROWS (Norway), MÄNIAC (Canada), BUNKER 66 (Italy), POKOLGÉP (Hungary), BASTARDATOR
(Canada), REPUGNANT (Sweden), ATAKKE (USA), MIASMAL (Sweden), NITAD (Sweden), METALIAN (Canada), RAMESSES (U.K.), AGE
OF TAURUS (U.K.), VIRUS (Norway), VOOR (Canada ’85)
I would add bands like Audiopain, Inferno, Aura Noir, Lamented Souls, etc. No one in my crew or worldwide “scene” listens to new Immortal
and let alone Ishahn!!! HAHA … it’s soooo far removed from our region of the metal world. Try Christian Mistress or Sonic Ritual.

Good black metal bands are not really in Norway for me … many are ’90s copy bands. Orcustus is good, Rust is good if you like Aura Noir/DT
… Faustcoven holds the most black metal feeling for me. The feeling is the most important — BM is not the ’90s sport it turned out to be —
“Who can copy 93-96 style the best” — it just makes me puke.

FENRIZ: I basically had all the BM I needed in 1991. Then VON and BURZUM and that was it for me. Oh, and Immortal had Pure Holocaust,
but it was a different style — awesome but not something to influence me other than on an internal level. I guess many tried in the ’90s … I
enjoyed Black Witchery a bit. Best BM band since the ’80s is Hellrealm from Chicago (man from Scepter), a lot like VON if you must.

FENRIZ: We’ll go on a 23-month tour of Idaho. Idaho? no, YOU da ho!!!! HAHAHAAHA

Fenriz' Guide to Must-Have-Albums

1 Bastardator - Identify The Dead

One of the best albums of ‘08, this is merciless metalpunk-thrash and everything fell into place on this record. A future classic for us fighting in
the underground resistance
2 Witch Cross - Fit For Fight
Why this one is so magic 25 years after its release, has a lot to do with the vocal and the vocal sound, it carries the song stronger than almost
any other album. This gives me goosebumps.
3 Savage Grace - Master Of Disguise
If Agent Steel is known for the best Iron Maiden/Judas Priest-mixed style, Savage Grace is rrrrrright behind them. It’s got the un-production
that is necessary to become CULT, too.
4 Septic Death - Now That I Have The Attention What Do I Do With It?
Talking about weird production, that’s my life! And this one is a tough nut to crack, but hell, you’re tough, aren’t you?! For many, this will be
acquired taste, not instant gratification.
5 Dio - The Last In Line
This followed me since it came out, I never stopped listening to it, it has served the fight of REAL METAL every year since then. And it’s got
Vinnie Appice on drums. My favourite.
6 Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Vinnie Appice? AGAIN? HELL YEAH! The drumming and the drum sound here is so alike what he continued to do with Dio later. Almost
like a trademark. I AM NOT WORTHY!
7 Griffin (10) - Protectors Of The Lair
It’s no big secret that the 2 most important metal albums FOR ME that I discovered the last 2 years are Savage Grace and this one. I am
awestruck by the METAL FORCE on these two.
8 Aura Noir - Hades Rise
I know we released this on our Tyrant Syndicate sublabel, but it has never left my ears. I strongly believe it is the best metal album of the 00’s,
and would also be one of the 80’s best.
9 Warfare (2) - Mayhem Fuckin' Mayhem
Actually I struggled a lot with this one when I bought it as a kid, but many of those ACQUIRED TASTE type of albums...it pays off struggling
to like it, cuz this is my metalpunk friend for life!
10 Necrophagia - Season Of The Dead
Nicke A. from Nihilist (Swe) taped me this after it came out...boy what a strange production! And of course AGAIN a fine example that the
weird demo-sound productions REIGN. Hail!