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I don’t get mad if some band from the underground
scene makes it real big. It’s basically
none of my business. I try to be conscience
about myself, I try to grow, improve
on all levels and basically lead a beneficial life
where pre-ordained dogmas or principals
have no value unless they are my own. The
same way it’s not really interesting either to
throw my wisdom upon the world, so to
speak. I think people will benefit more to
listen to their hearts than to listen to me.
I have chosen to have my contact with the
outside world through music. It’s not to prove
a point; it’s just putting my experience into a
kind of endless format. As to what I hope it
achieves? I hope it inspires people to create,
to be better people, to take better care of
themselves, to get more in touch with suppressed
areas of their emotional life, or
something completely different: basically,
what I hope to achieve is up to you…
Our artistic agenda will always change, like
human beings change. Even though we don’t
want to, we do. So since Satanic Art we have
become more blurred for the reason that we
have become more organic in a way. It’s not
just infantile fantasies or metrological report
of some kind. It’s a whole life inside our records.
Even the old albums are records of life,
in a simpler, more one-sided sense.
All my albums tell me something about myself.
I have faith, I think anyone would benefit
of having a belief system. It cannot be for
selfish reasons generated through fear, redemption,
hypocrisy, career, etc. Faith is not
about getting, it is about achieving. Faith has
to be the model for your personal ideal. I
cannot understand all the interest people put
into other people’s life, don’t they find themselves
interesting enough? For me, I do want
people to be close to my music if they feel it,
but I have no desire about them obsessing
about me.
I think there was a scene once that sort of
shared ideals, or to be more eloquent, a
scene where you shared a lack of ideals. I
mean come on, all of us were just kids, and
let’s face it: we weren’t much different from
any other teenagers growing up at the time,
except that we had somewhere to vent our
desires and our frustration. This argument is
thoroughly strengthened by the fact that if
you go take part in the Black Metal scene
here in Norway nowadays, you will quickly
see that it’s all about spending time together
and the shared interest in the music is what
draws the people together.
When it comes to me personally, I did not
start to listen to Black Metal and then got
interested in the occult. The passion was
already there. I have also grown up with
15
many different religious paths around me as I
have an Indian background. This is why Black
Metal put my butt in the seat as soon as we
were acquainted, because the flare for the
contents in Black Metal already resided inside
me.
Now let’s talk about DHG’s sick-to-thebone
homemade library. Aldrahn's lyrics
and performances on 666 International
were basically all over the place and
quite out-there, so to speak, absorbing
elements from mythological narratives
as well as taking kind of a post-modern
twist on absurdist poetry - in one word,
it was downright unique. What about
Kvohst's writing and singing, and how
would you say that they are directly connected
to the music found on Supervillain
Outcast?
I think Kvohst writes a lot better technically
and in a much clearer narrative. It’s easier to
write in an absurd fashion, because you are
not really revealing anything. "Gobbling
numbers to safety, aerobatic stance unblurred.
Focus rendering motion, tears cracking
strong hostile limbs." I am basically talking
about eating breakfast and training, who
would ever think that? It’s easy to hide the
fact that you don’t have much on your mind if
you write in a way that in the end is 100 %
up to the interpreter. I am not saying Aldrahn
has nothing on his mind, but artistically
Kvohst’s lyrics suit me a lot better. Because
it’s not about shying away, and at the same
time they are kind of written from the viewing
point of the observer. I think it becomes a
bit bogus when your genius is dependent
upon other people’s interpretations. I feel our
lyrics now have the edge they previously
missed.