May 27th, 2008

Mother North – MetalKult’s Journey to Norway

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For four days in March 2008, MetalKult’s Brad Angle and Jimmy Hubbard took a journey to the grim-cold heart of Norwegian black metal: Oslo, Norway.

In this revealing four-part series, we catch up with a few of Norwegian black metal’s leading acts. We go on a pub crawl through Oslo’s hottest metal bars with 1349’s Seidemann (bass) and Archaon (guitar), visit Notodden’s ancient Heddal Stave Church, head off to Emperor/Zyklon drummer Trym’s Emperial Tattoo studios (where Hubbard gets some seriously Nordic needle-and-ink action), hang with Emperor vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn at his Symphonique Studios, tour the rebuilt Holmenkollen Chapel (which was burned in 1992 by members of the black metal community), go to Helvete (the late Mayhem guitarist Euronymous’ record store and informal black metal “inner circle” headquarters) and chat with Satyricon in their cavernous rehearsal studios.

Check out this rare glimpse into the lives of these artists below.

Many thanks to GuitarWorld.com forum moderator and Lotus bassist Øyvind Rasmussen for his expert (and impromptu) tour guide skills.

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  1. tabarnak said,
    on May 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Nice! Quite interesting to see these bands from the inside.

    And Norway looks a lot like Canada.

  2. Christopher Snider said,
    on May 27th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    Great Video, can’t wait to see the others!!! Whose music is being played at the beginning of this video?

  3. Dimas said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    The beginning of the video features music from Burzum.

  4. Stefan Rydehed said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 12:55 am

    Nice works fellows!

  5. lemon said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    mother north aint in oslo, this is more our most cosmopol/european city of all, u wanna visit mother north go west/Vestlandet, this is the coldness, withits inhospitality and wasteland that fits, go the fjords, and mountains, go the distance between people, not akershus festning with kingsoldiers

  6. warren said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    part 2 is not showing up at all….its only part 1

  7. Metal Kitty said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    Great work on this video! Ihsahn is an insanely talented musician. He pulls off that short hair look with class! I wish Ihsahn much success with his new album! Ihsahn is fascinating, I could listen to Ihsahn talk about his refrigerator magnet collection and be fully entertained. ;) Norway’s landscape is pretty grim but Alaska is four times as big and has ten times the frozen grimness. Sadly Alaska has nearly zero black metal musicians.

  8. Way Too Loud! > Ihsahn Studio Footage posted said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    […] some footage from the studio detailing the gear he used to record he latest album, “angL” at MetalKult. The footage is part 2 of a 4 part mini-documentary about Norwegian […]

  9. Gabriele said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    I love Norway!!!!

  10. Daily black metal videos, eh? said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    […] Daily black metal videos, eh? The Metalkult website has been posting up videos from their trip to Norway over the last couple of days; there’s been two so far and there are two more yet to come. The first one includes a studio tour with Satyr and Frost from Satyricon and today’s clip features a gear tour with Ihsahn from Emperor. Tomorrow’s video features a tour of Trym from Emperor’s tattoo parlour and the day after that there’ll be rehearsal footage of 1349, I think. Pretty cool, although I wish they’d stop showing footage of Norway’s grim, desolate highways Enjoy! MetalKult Mother North – MetalKult’s Journey to Norway, Part 2: IHSAHN Studio Tour […]

  11. Christian Fernandez said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Muito foda

  12. diego said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    satyr looked mellow & wimpy compared to his video evil personality. is this a gimmick or duel person.

  13. Ryan Colgan said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    That would be so sick to have a Trym tatoo.

  14. Tomi said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    What is the last song that they play at the end of video 3?

  15. Fritz said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    Great documentary!
    The opening song is from Burzum “Det Som En Gang Var” from the “Hvis Lyset Tar Oss” EP.

  16. Goat of a Thousand Young said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Holy shit, Satyr cut his hair AGAIN.

  17. lien said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    great, now I want to get a tattoo done by Trym.

  18. Way Too Loud! > Zyklon/Former Emperor Drummer Tattoo Parlor Footage Posted said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    […] Zyklon and former Emperor drummer Trym recently gave MetalKult a tour of his Emperial Tattoo parlor, where MetalKult editor Jimmy Hubbard also got a tattoo. You […]

  19. Darz said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    >What is the last song that they play at the end of video 3?
    It is an Enslaved song called “Havenless” from the album “Below the Lights”.

  20. W00dman said,
    on May 29th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    NICELY DONE!!!! I ENJOYED ALL 3 EPISODEZ!!!!! HAILS!!!!! \m/

  21. Shawnt said,
    on May 30th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    what is the song in the begining of the first video?

  22. evl666 said,
    on May 30th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    ey awesome video

    whats the first song of part 2 (ihsahn studio) plz?

  23. dedede said,
    on May 31st, 2008 at 9:36 am

    “what is the song in the begining of the first video?”

    –> it’s: “Burzum - Det Som en Gang Var”

  24. Ash said,
    on June 1st, 2008 at 4:34 am

    Glorified holiday video. Didn’t offer anything interesting or in-depth at all.

  25. Lord Daimon said,
    on June 1st, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Norway looks like Canada?!excuse me?!!!!

  26. cfh said,
    on June 1st, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    what is the song being played throughout part 4? is it 1349?
    the video is playing throughout and finishes off part 4

  27. Axis said,
    on June 1st, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    That was a womans skeleton in the corner of his studio, lol

  28. whoresofchaos said,
    on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    Nice work!

  29. 48485 said,
    on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 am

    “Gabriele said,
    on May 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
    I love Norway!!!!”

    Norway doesn’t love you shitalians!

  30. Woah said,
    on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 am

    Satyr stop cutting your hair! :P
    It looked fucking exquisite when it was long!

  31. Brandon said,
    on June 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    What is the 1st song in part 2??? It sounds amazing!!!!

  32. David said,
    on June 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    When Satyr talked it maked me want to go to sleep….

  33. Aj said,
    on June 5th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Hmm strange, Trym mentions that he is the drummer for Emperor/Zyklon but he was also the drummer for Enslaved.

  34. OldRaven said,
    on June 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    The 1sft song in part two is Scarab from the new (2nd) Ihsahn solo album : angL.

  35. ZYKLON/Ex-EMPEROR Drummer TRYM Gives Tour Of His Tattoo Studio; Video Available | blackdeathmetal.com said,
    on June 6th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    […] to MetalKult.com to view this rare […]

  36. Lord Cadaver said,
    on June 7th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Great fun vids, I want more!!!

  37. Dead-Light-Calm said,
    on June 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Fucking amazing! There should be a massive like 3 hour DVD on Norwegian Blackmetal with all this sorta stuff in there as well. \m/

  38. IHSAHN: Entrevista feita pelo Metalkult | Helvete said,
    on June 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    […] zine MetalKult visitou a Noruega em Março, aonde tiverem a rara oportunidade o Symphonique Studios, estúdio do […]

  39. EmpEroR said,
    on June 16th, 2008 at 2:30 am

    Someone asked about the song in the begging of part 4, its Chasing Dragons by 1349 from the Beyond the Apocalypse album amazing track /,,/ pure fucken norwegian black metal /,,/

  40. Promenade en Norvège | Schizodoxe said,
    on June 17th, 2008 at 5:20 am

    […] Source : MetalKult. […]

  41. Chulo said,
    on June 19th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Awesome. Hail Norway.

  42. Ruby Red said,
    on June 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    GUITAR WORLD - MetalKult.com is a real chilly diamond that focas on the heavy extreme Master musicians artists/bands that vitality & deep rich vibes is showcase wonderously with awe “here” at the MetalKult.com. I enjoyed the technical music Studio interviews with Frost & Satyr of Satyricon in Part 1 (also the Indepth Interview on them is awesome! Thanks.) as I did Part 2 the Studio Interview with Ihsahn of Emperor (his featured in the recent Guitar World/August 2008 issue…’really nice!) I found both of their music Studio gear-tech tour chat quite intriqueing & fascinating. Part 3 Emperor/Zyklon Drummer Tyrm is a mystery man of talents made me cringe seeing the young person arm getting tatooted & Part 4 was a nice treat seeing that the haunting 1349 Archeon & Seidermann were in high Spirits showing the Guitar World/MetalKult guests a joyful time in Norway’s must famous Pubs/Venues. All in all it was a special treat seeing the lovely NORWAY Country sights &j ust a fine portion of the some of their most haunting darkly Black Metal musicians artists/bands that are from there: “thanks” for the chilly special on Norway’s darkly musicians it was a true treasure. Peace and once again, a big thank you!

  43. Al said,
    on June 27th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Once all the footage of flags, highways and episode numbers etc… is taken out, there is little substance.

  44. Abraxas said,
    on August 2nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Interesting.

  45. PIUCRUST said,
    on August 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Hi friends,greetings from Brzilians Black metal fans !!!!!

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