Tor Åge Ballo (guitars), Fritz R. Pettersen (vocals & bass) and Kim-Erling Johansen (drums) were bought up in Vadsø - a town so far north, it’s almost the Arctic, and so far east, it’s almost Russian. They recently played the town’s music festival and the most positive statement was “it’s very loud”. The greatest bands have suffered this hometown frustration. Industrial metal was MEANT to come from Norway; rolling uninhabitable tundra, gigantic fjords and a people with a penchant for devouring whales and cuddly reindeer.

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