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Susanna! Oh Susanna
For all the glories bestowed upon artists, deservedly or not, that only induce further comatose egos to spring to life (burgeoning like the Poplar trees along the Brahmaputra in April) swaying heads and arrogant...

Darkness hath no teeth
Long reviled, understandably hated, doused in adjectives and superlatives, Maniac has long borne the cloak of rebellion and reaction. From the ashes of former band Mayhem which propelled him to the forefront of the...

Syntax TerrOrkester
My Norwegian sucks. And those dialects, wow. But I've played Norwegian scrabble enough to know all the two-three letter Norwegian words that count as points.

Illuminations
This is the bravest Norwegian album I’ve heard all year, and Øystein Sandsdalen has humbled us into knowing that he’s a force to be reckoned with. Rather than be sidelined as Serena Maneesh’s second...

Beggars can't be choosers
After consuming a kilo of heroin and laxatives that fateful day circa 2004, leaving Bergen on my first tour of Norway, with a freshly acquired album Riot on an Empty Street playing in headphones,...

Holy Jesus on a stick
Martha 3:14 recounts something about the impossibility of love for another unless one understands and accepts an original love, that is, love sent from above through the death and life of God’s son, JC....

In the Servitude of Fanatics
Finally I get to write about a band nobody's gunna argue over, to you it's either kronky senseless racket or, if you're WIRE magazine-savvy, order determinable on plainly abnormal chaospheres. To those who find...


