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The truth about IMMORTAL’s weird “Call Of The Wintermoon” video

Seriously, is there anyone out there who still hasn’t seen Immortal’s ‘video clip’ for Call of the Wintermoon? The one where Abbath, Demonaz and their then-drummer Kolgrim charge through the woods in corpse paint, spike gear and wizard robes, breathing fire and making ridiculous faces?

The sheer absurdity still cracks people up and leaves them wondering what the hell they just watched. For years, puzzled fans tried to explain it the only way they could: by assuming Immortal had a great sense of humor and didn’t take themselves too seriously. Grim and frostbitten Black Metal — but with a wink.

And yet, nothing could be further from the truth. According to the band, the video was never even supposed to exist.

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Why did Dead actually commit suicid?

There’s a pretty common belief in the scene that two main reasons led to Per “Dead” Ohlin’s suicide: first, that he’d become deeply disillusioned after death/black metal got “corrupted” by mainstream success, and second, that after a near-death experience as a kid, he developed a morbid fascination with death that never left him.

Dr. Schitz, a close friend of Dead and his bandmate in MORBID, doesn’t buy into that at all. In fact, he says those claims are basically a myth — partly started by Euronymous, and later spread by outsiders who never actually knew Dead personally or had any real access to the “inner circle” of Morbid/Mayhem to know things first-hand.Read More »Why did Dead actually commit suicid?

Infamous DARKTHRONE Interview (German ROCK HARD magazine, issue #71, April 1993)

English translation:

In our previuos issue, Atrocity frontman Krulle was willing to provide information about various incidents related to Satanism and Norway. Now it was time to interview a band from the orbit of this cult-like group of imbeciles. Ted Skjellum from DARK THRONE seemed to be the right man, even though their new LP “Under A Funeral Moon” doesn’t live up to expectations.

Unfortunately, my conversation with Ted ended up being rather disappointing, as the man hates interviews and certainly doesn’t like being asked about the Norwegian scene. Well, I can only counter that with the saying “The spirits that I’ve cited…”, because after all DARK THRONE were pretty much the first ones who clearly committed themselves to the burgeoning Black Metal movement. So here are the few useful statements from Ted, and I assure you that this was the last time this idiot has been given space in our magazine.

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