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- Everyone in Norway looks like this on the weekends.
Norwegian black-metal veterans Khold released their sixth full-length, Til Endes, on Peaceville Records in September. The album didn’t get a lot of love around here at the time, but its moment has finally arrived. I mean, if you’re looking for a belated excuse to write about a band called Khold, you can’t do better than this weather.
Drummer Sarke gets a pass for making great rock faces when he plays, though. Plus I enjoy the way Gard’s corpsepaint makes him look like an angry, decaying fungus. And guitarist Rinn wins the video with his burning headstock, because how many times did they have to relight that between takes? The best part is how the director treats it like it’s no big deal, never lingering on the flames or foregrounding them. You get the idea that Rinn’s guitar just comes out of its case on fire, and nobody bats an eye anymore.
