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The Band <\/h1>
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Kryss (Kristian Bakken)

Vocals, guitar, composer, lyrics
Place of birth: Rjukan, Norway
Before the band: City bus driver in Rjukan<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: playing guitar, writing verses, conducting rituals, reading strange books, walking in the woods, watching horror movies.
Favorite past time: performing on stage.
Dislikes: routine, boring people.
Philosophy: music helps people to be who they are, to express their internal essence, to protest against conservative society.
Greatest accomplishment: creating the band.
Greatest defeat: there is no such a thing.
Life goals: to go on a world tour with the band.
Family fact: his mother is under compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in Aarhus, Denmark.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quote: “I am here not for your entertainment”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last books written: \u201cMeanwhile in Norway\u201d and \u201cBlack is Black until the End\u201d (verses).
Favorite movies: any horror movie about black magic, rituals and churches.
Favorite drink: dark beer.
Favorite food: fish soup, raspeball (potato dumplings).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Psykopat<\/strong> (Aksel Dronning<\/strong>)

Drums, percussion
Place of birth: Rjukan, Norway
Before the band: Unemployed in Rjukan<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: playing drums, alcohol, hitchhiking, fights with strangers, playing video games.
Favorite past time: making bonfires and burning any wooden buildings.
Dislikes: police, state employment service, in general any boring people with no sense of humor.
Philosophy: music is the way to let the steam off.
Greatest accomplishment: he learned to play the drums on his own.
Greatest defeat: numerous police arrests for antisocial behavior (pyromania and sociopathy), 6-month prison sentence for police station arson in Rauland.
Life goals: to earn some money somewhere, and to get into trouble somewhere, just for fun.
Family fact: in Rjukan he lived in the house of his great-grandmother, a 90-year-old deaf and blind old woman who didn\u2019t give a fuck about anything.
Favorite thing: the drum kit inherited from his father. His dad never played it, he just won it on cards as a trophy.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quote: “Let’s burn everything here”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Favorite book: he watches only videos on youtube and tiktok.
Favorite movies: cartoons and action movies.
Favorite drink: any strong alcohol.
Favorite food: bidos (reindeer meat stew), skolebolle (sweet roll with custard).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Svart (Olav Jordahl<\/strong>)

Guitar
Place of birth: Sandefjord, Norway
Before the band: handyman in geriatric resort in Sandefjord<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: playing guitar, girls, dating, weddings, singing in the shower, suicides.
Favorite past time: dating with girls, long walks in the woods.
Dislikes: doctors, pensioners, get up early in the morning, feeling lonely, cats.
Greatest accomplishment: he survived suicide.
Greatest defeat: personal life, 54 divorces.
Life goals: to meet \u201clove of his life\u201d, to play his guitar in unusual places on earth.
Family fact: he entered the Norwegian Book of Records as \u201cThe most married and divorced man in Norway.\u201d
Number of children: unknown, since about 100 women accuse him of being father, but he doesn\u2019t remember most of them and never married them.
Jokes: all members of the band joke that he will marry any girl he has dated for at least a week.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quote: “Will you marry me?”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Favorite thing: whaling harpoon in home interior.
Favorite movies: romantic movies and melodramas.
Favorite drink: beer, a lot of beer.
Favorite food: well-roasted steak, pinnekj\u00f8tt (dried lamb ribs).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Freki (Freki Solberg<\/strong>)

Keyboards, lyrics, composer
Place of birth: Kristiansand, Norway
Before the band: night cashier in SPAR Rauland<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: inventing new samples for keyboards, playing video games, spending time in nature, taking part in rituals.
Favorite past time: being alone in his room, compose music.
Dislikes: people, big crowds, public performance.
Greatest accomplishment: he performs on stage despite his social phobia.
Greatest defeat: constant communication problems.
Life goals: to write a song that all black metal fans in the world will know.
Family fact: his mother extremely hates his father and says that his father was \u201cSatan himself.\u201d Freki has never seen his father.
Favorite book: the Bible. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quote: “Piss off and leave me alone!”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Favorite thing: his laptop.
Favorite movies: documentaries about history and science.
Favorite drink: he doesn’t drink alcohol.
Favorite food: vegetarian cuisine, r\u00f8mmegr\u00f8t (sour cream porridge), chocolate ice cream.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hamar (Iver Olsen<\/strong>)

Bass guitar<\/strong>
Place of birth: Trondheim, Norway
Before the band: cod farm worker in Trondheim<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: alcohol, fights with strangers, sleeping during rehearsals, furniture assembling.
Favorite past time: leading a riotous life, hang out in bars and clubs.
Dislikes: any fish, people who can’t drink, people who can\u2019t joke, unfriendly people, police.
Philosophy: music is like a meditation, it helps people balance.
Greatest accomplishment: he knows how to assemble and repair any furniture for home and garden.
Greatest defeat: numerous arrests and fines due to drunken brawls .
Life goals: no goals.
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Quote: “I hate fish!”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Favorite thing: his bass guitar. 
Favorite movies: sitcoms.
Favorite drink: any strong alcohol.
Favorite food: any food except fish, ketchup.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magnus D\u00f8d<\/strong>

Manager
Place of birth: Oslo, Norway
Before the band: music manager and producer<\/h4>
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Some facts to know: \u200b<\/h4>

Hobbies: earning money, alcohol, quarrels and bargaining with everybody, driving minivan, speed racing, gambling.
Favorite past time: searching for new performers, visiting large and small concerts in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, visiting pubs where various no-names performed who dreamed of musical fame.
Dislikes: fools, rednecks, greedy people, communists, liars, weaklings, crybabies, people who can’t drink or fight.
Philosophy: show business is first and foremost a business, and only then a show.
Greatest accomplishment: during his career he had managed over 20 different bands and singers in completely different genres.
Greatest defeat: girls band \u201cLarsen Sisters”.
Life goals: organize a world tour for the band, earn all the money in the world.
Unexpected fact #1: in his youth he worked as a sailor on fishing boats.
Unexpected fact #2: he was a manager of the parish choir at Valerenga Church. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quotes: “You can sue me!” and “Where is my money?”.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Important things in life: money and respect. 
Favorite movies & books: no time for this shit.
Favorite drink: any strong alcohol.
Favorite food: fast food, sursild (pickled herring).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t think anyone could play and sing so badly.
And this doesn\u2019t make you sick.

Everything was terrible – sound, voice, appearance, lighting, choice of location.
But I wanted to look at it.

I was drinking a cheap beer in that trailer park and couldn’t take my eyes off the stage.
The Larsen Sisters were waiting for me in the minivan; we were returning to Oslo after a disastrous concert.

When I saw those guys on stage, I realized that I was done with pop musicians.<\/h5>
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Magnus D\u00f8d<\/strong>\u200b<\/h5><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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