Darkthrone are one of black metal's most defining yet atypical acts. They don't wear corpse paint... well, aside from a couple highly influential early '90s album covers. They never got involved in ...

Fenriz (né Gylve Fenris Nagell) continues to be one of the most interesting characters in extreme music. Not only is he one-half of the revered Darkthrone, and not only is he a postal worker, but now ...

“Who cares? We have plenty of albums out, and I don't understand that people want more,” Darkthrone drummer Fenriz said to underground zine Mindview in 1999. “It's like eating pancakes: six or seven, ...

Gylve Nagell, AKA Hank Amarillo, also and most enduringly known as Fenriz, is a titan of modern heavy metal. As the drummer in second wave black metal icons Darkthrone he has contributed to some of ...

Darkthrone are a black metal band revered for their corpsepaint trilogy. But frontman Fenriz just became a politician – thanks to his cat. He talks us through his busy diary It’s easy to leap to ...

You wouldn’t normally associate rock stars with a job as straightforward as working for the council. But that’s exactly what’s happened in the case of Norwegian rock legend Fenriz, from the black ...

As much as metal is a genre of music and a lifestyle, it is also a community. And like all communities, it has its leaders — men and women whose work, be it by design or circumstance, affects all ...

As far as black-metal musicians-turned politicians go, you could do worse than Darkthrone drummer/singer/guitarist/mastermind Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell. Unlike some ...

Politics is often about popularity, and there’s no denying that Gylve Fenris Nagell — better known as Fenriz of the Norwegian death-metal duo Darkthrone — is immensely popular. So popular, in fact, ...

The worst interview you’ll ever do is with Lou Reed, so they say; hearing experienced, respected journalists swap tales about ‘the time they interviewed Lou Reed’ and got verbally shat on is almost ...

One of the most elusive, iconic and musically knowledgeable pioneers of the second wave of black metal, Darkthrone multi-instrumentalist Gylve Fenris Nagell (better known as just Fenriz) has stormed ...