"I was very fortunate to not get involved in any of [the church burnings] in that respect, but I think we were all ver…"

"I don’t think [the church burnings] had a political agenda. I know that some of them are very extreme in their politi…"

"These Norwegian kids were doing things that mainstream folk may have assumed metal musicians did all the time. To say…"

"Christianity never suited Norway. It never belonged here. The black metal scene reacted to that. We needed to have so…"

"That’s why we started to wear our hair all black. We were singing about Satan and sadism, and everything that was wro…"

"The cops came to my parents’ place late at night, just to go through my room. I was 17. They were trying to find some…"

"The starkness and coldness of Norway itself is embedded in the bones of"

"Today, we all find it kind of funny and sad at the same time. [...] Take Ivar from Enslaved: back then, we were writi…"

"[The killing of Euronymous] is an old traditional fight, slandering and death threats start to fly between two people…"

"[Euronymous] had the belief, the more extreme the better, the more unbelievable the better. [...] Then you have someo…"