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you play one and one

up and down

and you have the notes

cling together

so that you have

the f***ing eerie notes

and they all string together

creating this incredible, eerie sound.

lt sends f***ing chills down your spine.

l started in Mayhem in March 1988.

When l first met Euronymous,

l gave him, like,

a demo tape of me playing the drums.

He listened to it maybe five minutes

and he heard it was like double bass

and blast beats in t,here

and it was like

''Yeah, okay. You're in the band.''

The next day l actually

moved to their location

which was, like

30 minutes outside of! Oslo.

l met the other guys.

l met Necrobutcher.

And of course, l met Dead

which was a Swedish guy.

l never had the chance

to see Mayhem with Dead,

but Demonaz did so he can

say something about it.

Yeah. l saw Mayhem in Oslo

with Dead.

And he had make-up.

That was the first show

l saw ever with make-up.

And didn't they

carry Dead in in a coffin?

No, they didn't.

They were supposed to do that.

They were supposed to do that, yeah.

So we were really waiting

for that but it didn't happen.

But he had this sacrifice knife

which he was cutting himself with.

lt was a good show.

When it's cold

and when it's dark

the freezing moon can obsess you.

He was extremely depressed, really.

Just dreaming of Transylvania

and vampires

and all this gothic imagery,

and it's an escape

just like computer games

and role-playing games,

and that was his escape.

Come on, Liepzig!

Come on! Join us!

Pure f***ing Armageddon.

We agreed that l should send him

some ammo for his shotgun.

He didn't have any ammo.

And l did when l came back home

and a month later he shot himself.

Many people speculate

that Aarseth himself killed Dead.

Per Ohlin. It's one of the many rumors

in this movement.

There are a lot of rumors,.

l don't think that's true

simply because he was

out of town when it happened.

And when he came back home

he didn't have a key,

they only had a couple of keys t,o the house

and he didn't have it

so he had to crawl

in the open window.

And when he crawled in

he found Dead--

Dead dead in the bed

with his, you know, his brains

blown out, literally.

He shot himself in the forehead.

The brain had fallen

out from his skull.

lt was, you know, grotesque.

And the first thing he did

was not to call the cops.

lt was

''Where's my photo equipment?''

l'm born in Bergen in 1973.

l grew up in an idyllic society, really.

Homogeneous, no crime.

Everything was basically perfect.

We had stables with girls

riding horses.

We were playing on the outside.

There were no problems.

But at a certain point,

when we grow older,

of course there were problems,

but we didn't see them.

That's basically the truth, eh

But when you grow older

you start to see that things

isn't the way you want it to be.

McDonald's didn't appear

until '91 or '92, and when it did

we actually took a rifle

and a bicycle and we bicycled--

Rode our bikes up to McDonald's

and we set down and started to fire

on their windows.

You know, we were sneaking up

and ''Boom!''

We were shooting at McDonald's.

We stockpiled weapons,

munitions to prepare for war.

Because we not only suspected that

there might be a third world war,

we hoped that there would

be a third world war.

Not because we enjoyed

destruction so much

but because we knew that if you want

to build something new,

you have to destroy the old first.

The ballad album of Nazareth.

Oh! Testament, The Ritual.

What a cool album.

This place has a cool story to it

when it comes to Darkthrone.

Because, well

Iet's get out of the fire.

lt was a question of getting, like,

a Dictaphone or something to record riffs.

Because me and Ted, we had

like, of course, you know,

we recorded rehearsals

on this f***ing tape deck.

And that broke down.

So l'm sitting here in Oslo

and l'm thinking, well,

l probably should get a Dictaphone.

And so l get in touch

with Sigurd and he says,

''Well, l can get you

this f***er for 2000.

lt's got, like, four tracks,

it's digital and everything.''

And l'm saying, ''Hold it.

''You know, l was thinking

more along the lines

''of a little-- to get the riffs in.''

And then l come here, you know,

and l find this old tape deck.

lt can't even play out, it just goes--

but it can record

and l bought it for 50 kroner.

F***ing sweet.

l refuse to...

stand court-martialed

for making this whole

underground movement

into a trend thing.

lf it's anyone,

it's not us.

But l guess most people

would say that.

That's what people

usually ask, you know?

Like, how the hell did it happen?

l guess l got to buy that f***ing helmet.

The mission statement was not escaping

the death metal trend.

But definitely we were

thinking of not stepping

in the garish footsteps

of what became commercial death metal.

Well, what do you know?

What are we looking at here?

l was thinking what is really

the culturally relevant

phenomenon of Norway?

And l just couldn't find any.

l think Norway is kind of exploding

with all this kind of mediocre

cultural activity

and then if there are

other relevant phenomena,

then they are usually

just completely ignored,

which is happening with this Norwegian

black metal here in Norway.

What interested me the most,was both

the visual aesthetics

this kind of stereotype

with this corpse-paint

that you can make it into

kind of a visual stereotype

that both is something you

feel you've seen before

but is not quite like what

you have seen before.

This Transylvanian Hunger photo,

if you compare that to ''The Scream'',

there is so much visual similarities.

And l don't think it's such a far-fetched

reference as many people think.

With Munch in Norway there has been

this kind of fear of Munch

the fear of his emotional excessiveness

and, kind of

the fear of this easy genius,

and this very, very extreme, Norwegian person.

And l think the only thing

that really had a relevance

to the kind of emotional content

of what Edvard Munch was

is Norwegian black metal.

l have this tour now which will be

four one-man shows

in different European museums

which will have a black metal theme.

lt was a huge shop.

At one point

Count Grishnackh was

living in the cellar.

Bard ''Faust'' was living

behind the counter, sort of.

And Euronymous himself lived there

in a small hideaway up in--

Like, he had a little, small--

Say this piece right there

was removable.

He was living, sleeping

up in the f***ing roof.

We used to sit in a sofa

behind the desk

in a part of the shop

that was not used.

So it was like in a dark corner

so to speak.

You know, and he was drinking,

we were talking

and these heavy metal guys came in,

you know, with nails

all over their jackets

because they had the impression that you

have to have nails, you know?

That's a part of the game.

And...

So, we could sit there, like

talk about everything really'.

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