A Blaze in the Northern Sky: Ted Skjellum and Harald Fossberg
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- 1992 saw the release of Darkthrone’s “A Blaze in the Northern Sky”. Recorded in Kolbotn, it was their second full length effort, but their first within the genre of black metal. The album was extremely influential, and set the bar for a new wave of Norwegian bands that are idolized worldwide to this day. What were the origins of the black metal wave of the 1990’s come from, and why is the music still so popular?
A first edition print of “A Blaze in the Northern Sky" features in Enlightened, the National Library of Norway’s new permanent exhibition of highlights from Norwegian cultural history. In this event Ted Skjellum, also known as Nocturno Culto, is interviewed by journalist and writer Harald Fossberg.
Thank you so much for including English subtitles for this! From a fan in Canada!
I am too. Qc represents
@@MonTube2006 toujours!
T.O baby! salute!
From Canada too bud🤘🏻I am planning to go to norway for metal fest inferno
Yes, hails from BC! \m/
Ted & Gylve are Norway's two most famous sons. Nothing makes me as a metalhead more proud than to see Darkthrone get the respect that deserve.
They're not famous at all, which I'm sure they're more than fine with
I think there's definitely a more famous Norwegian from that scene...
Darkthrone is genius but don't forget the others. Emperor, Burzum, Mayhem, Immortal etc
Fuck off varg should get all the respect from Norway he created the Norwegian black metal sound as well as appearing on mayhem's only great debut album. Fenriz even admits copying burzum's sound.
Oh fuck off their nothing but beavis and butthead now. No more authentic black metal leaving their instruments.
By refusing to surrender to trends, they defined a genre,and became a legend.
…. and a trend
So true
Dont forget Burzum and Thorns made some classic black metal when Darkthrone still was playing music ala Entombed 😅
@@farteinaadon't forget Goat Of A Thousand Young was released the same year as Wrath of The Tyrant. Shit was already well underway by the time half of these bands that get brought up even found their sea legs lol.
I'm an American and as such I can't really comment in terms of what this signifies to the broader Norwegian cultural identity. Of all the candidates to recognize, though, I believe Darkthrone are the correct choice to honor in this exhibition - not only for their formidable catalogue but also the spirit, character and ethos behind their body of work. Norway absolutely should be proud of Darkthrone and credit to the National Library for recognizing this.
Why tho? A fckn mailman and here we have his sidekick. I cant see anything in these two characters that define black metal.
@@karl4683 then u dont understand black metal
@@neonwitch1449 Enlighten me then yankee doodle
@@karl4683 do it yourself
@@karl4683 sometimes certain types of art and music just isn't for everyone. just because you don't understand it doesn't mean the impact that they've made on the genre of metal, and black metal as a whole, and the impact they made on modern norwegian culture is something to not just scoff at. they've done something big that'll probably be remembered for a while.
Even National Library of Norway interviews have necro production
Hahahaha
The guy in the hoody is the ghoul who narrates the intro and outro of blaze
Or he is doing a pretty good imitation of the stammer
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Black Metal is one of my favourite music genres and I'm glad to see it being discussed as a serious movement, considered part of the cultural heritage of a country and placed alongside high art such as Grieg. And yet it upsets me though that most people will only watch that utter buffoonery of a movie called Lords of Chaos and discredit the whole thing. Congrats for your decision! I hope I'll get to visit the museum and this beautiful country one day.
Don't let it upset you. It's just a movie. One that I actually quite enjoyed, despite all sorts of details not being correct. Black metal was never meant for the masses anyway. People who discredit a whole genre of music because of a fictional movie are not suited to enjoy black metal anyway. And yes, so glad to see Darkthrone be honored by this organization. Never could've imagined it when I first heard them in 1995. Still one of my favorite bands.
@@brainrust Exactly. I was just being born when these guys were releasing their first albums, so I never really was a witness to the heydays of the black metal movement, but I can only imagine there's a huge difference between how it was seen back in the day and the way it is now being acknowledged by such institutions.
@@brainrust Yeah I thought it was an ok watch. The acting was so-so, very strange casting decisions (especially for Euronymous) and violence was played up for shock value. I've always had a bit of a fascination with black metal from a distance though and watching it kick-started a 3 week research/listening binge; in that sense it was pretty effective. But I can see why people who are more familiar with the scene wouldn't be happy with it.
@@adr.marius5636 i agree with you and i love this music. Try to read the books from Dayal Patterson about Black Metal.
@@gaelencarter4804 I thought Varg was the one who was truly miscast. I actually the thought violence scenes were extremely well done. They wisely choose not to play any music in the background during those scenes which give them a very earthy, very real, very uncomfortable feeling. I didn't feel like I was watching a dramatization of the suicides and murders. I felt like I was there witnessing the real horror and tragedy of it all.
Thanks for doing this interview Ted, I have grown up with Darkthrone - currently 35 years old, discovered you through Preparing for War comp in 2000, been a fan ever since. Wishing you and Fenriz the best.
I got into Darkthrone in '95-96 because of an album called 'Nordavind' by the band Storm, their one and only release.
Fenriz sang and drummed on the album along with Satyr (needs no introduction) and the singer Kari Rueslåtten from 'The Third and the Mortal'
I was more into the Crust Punk/Anarcho Punk movement at the time and was familiar with some of the Black Metal bands but didn't really get into it as far as being exposed to it etc. Tho I was a fan of Celtic Frost, Bathory and Venoms first two LP's, I didn't really listen to much metal coming out from Norway. Storm, tho being different from Black Metal opened up a huge door for me. Being into DIY crust punk, I was used to Lo-Fi production on recordings and was blown away from some of those early bands/releases.
Between 92 and 98 was when some of the best releases of this genre was released. Darkthrone on the other hand has always released great music and they don't give a shit, which is great! All their albums sound different from the last and besides 'Hunger' and 'A Blaze', I really enjoy 'Hate Them' and I remember ordering the LP in early 2003-4(ish?)
I think Fenriz said it best in the opening of the documentary "Until the Light Takes Us' and trailer stating:
"I refuse to stand court-martialed for making this whole underground movement into a trend thing"
A-fucking-men
@@JaymeSplendid Nordavind is Epic. I must have played it to death... I actually got into the heavyer metal with the band Cadaver (from Råde, Norway) when they released Hallucinating Anxiety.. The coverart on that record made me want to listen to it, and when the first song starts... Man, that blew my mind..
And what Ted states here is true, if you wore all black clothes, band shirts and had long hair in 1992-1994 you were Public Enemy #1.... It was all over the news with the church burnings and murders.. People still look strange at you for wearing a Burzum shirt...
The good thing is that there still are kids out there discovering Black Metal.. I've seen a few lately in their late teens wearing Burzum and DarkThrone tees..
I'm not the biggest die hard fan of DarkThrones music as such, but more a fan of the idiologi behind their music. But I love some of Gylves projects like Isengard and Storm...
The Norwegian language sounds beautiful 😍
My first taste of Norwegian black metal was in fact with "A Blaze" in 2007, when I was just 15 y.o. My father and I had picked it up at a local record shop on CD just by the cover artwork (I was heavily obsessed with German thrash metal and Metallica at that time and had no idea what to expect). The grim apparition painted in white freaked me out. From the moment we popped it into the CD player and heard those opening bellows, like the groans of some ancient beast rising up from chasms far beneath the Earth, we were completely absorbed by it. Not to mention how incredibly cold and razor sharp those guitars were, or how primitive and evil the drums sounded! I will never forget that first time hearing this album, and more than a decade later it still gives me goosebumps every time. Thank you Darkthrone and thank you Norway.
39:39 "We still have a lot to offer" that's awesome, their last albums have been pure fire. It's always a celebration when these guys drop new material.
Need album coming out soon. The new song is skull crushing. Eternal Hails!
Ted is always....steady
I love how Ted is really drinking beer in a god damn library. The perfect example of a metalhead!
Having a drink in public in Europe is really not that uncommon.
@@GIndude31 i know bro, im from Finland.
@@GIndude31 Doesn’t happen over here haha
Drinking alcohol is metal? si ce when?
@@manuel_cojocaru U get the point right? Or are u just dumb? Beer and alcohol in common is linked to metal pretty often...
Ofcourse there are metalheads that dont drink. What a little smart ass.
Thank you very much from a French fan for this interview and adding English subtitles.
Cheers.
Damn, a black metal album part of Norway's music history? This is a huge acknowledgement for Fenriz, Nocturno (and let's not forget Zephyrous as well) and for the whole black metal genre.
Dag Nilsen too
You don't usually hear Ted speak along 45 minutes unless you hear a Darkthrone album...but when you do, it's interesting too
I literally grew up following darkthrone since around 97' in Greece and I've kept listening to them until today, and they in deed alone retain unaltered that same untamed spirit that prompted them to record that blaze in the northern sky album all the way back. They defined a genre of music that plowed through the criticisms and has established itself as a defiant and powerful form of expression. I feel pride and joy to see Darkthrone recognised for their achievements. An unironically and unapologetically true cult metal band!
I love Darkthrone and I love Sarke this is great and thank you for the English subtitles since I live in Indiana and I don’t speak Norwegian nothing but love and respect from me rock on and rock out
Ted "Taking care of business".
What a fantastic interview this was. Thank you for putting it up and with Eng sub too.
Why i still listen to every darkthrone album is because of there authentic doityourself mentality. Just do it
Speaking of doing it yourself. I've been listening to Fenriz' Isangard - Høstmørke album over and over for the past week or so. Recommend listening to the Commentary Track as well!
@@lolblackice154 Try listening to Storm - Nordavind (Fenriz and Satyr joining up..) Same wibe, better (less necro) quality.
@@Charlzhen A very good album with covers of Norwegian folk songs made in their style. It also had Kari from Third and the mortal singing on it.
my life changed when i heard darkthrone and burzum at 10 years old. bm for life.
Thanks for the captions. Now I can listen to Darkthrone while I read the subtitles.
Haha!
Well deserved. These guys are true musicians🤘🏻
Great interview! Darkthrone is a true national treasure.
CONGRATULATIONS GUYS. BLACK METAL is a awesome music style and the band the deserve the honors. Cant wait for a new DARTHRONE album soon.
Thanks for the upload with the English subtitles from Kim Everrett Tasmania Australia, I have been a Darkthrone fan since Soulside journey was out ,I remember getting Ablaze in the northern Sky on Cassette tape when first released any thanks again Kim Everrett Tasmania Australia
He was smart enough to move to the countryside at 91', it saved him from unnecessary problems. That is why I dont like (metal scenes) there is always troubles. He deserves to be in the NL. Good father, good assistant and good musician. - Lucy
Ted ist always steady...
Well deserved. A honor wich is fairly gratified. A knee and a bow for an art that 's recognised. Much obliged🔥
Ted is always... steady. TCB!
It's actually pretty cool that a country recognises this type of music as art, and thus involving black metal into Norway's culture and heritage. I really notice still these days that any 'Metal' or 'Punk' subculture is still pretty demonised in western countries, and in Europe it seems to be a lot more popular and accepted.
Norway and most other European countries west of Poland are Western countries.
Excellent interview, Respect to the mighty Darkthrone! Praise their work.
I absolutely enjoy anything to do with this band, truly amusing people.
Wow thank you for this interview!!
FANTASTIC UPLOAD thank you so much!
Ted is steady.
Great to watch, thanks!
Veldig fint intervju, takk for videoen!
It's so cool to see the National Library of Norway recognizing such extreme and outside art as part of their culture. I don't think Brazil has ever done and never will do such thing to its most famous band: Sepultura.
No, you know why, Sepultura like the majority of brazilians band are into politics (anti-fascists bla bla). They are smart enough to be out of that.
Thanks for the subs!
thanks for English subs. Good to hear Ted ramble
Thanks so much for this.. Black metal it's so amazing.. Greetings from Colombia
Best norwegian band ever! Darkthrone to the death!! 💪
Takk, for at dere deler. Fikk ikke sett alt da det gikk live.
It was a beautiful interview. Darkthrone deserved this, they created something. In the end it's all about music and arts.
Thank you for this! What have kept me as a fan ever since I first heard them many years ago is that they simply don't give a shit about fancy production, record sales etc. They just play music they think sound cool, if it's anything worth is up for the listener to decide.
Fantastiskt! Tack så mycket Nasjonalbiblioteket.
Great interview and video!
Takk for dette her!
Darkthrone! Total support from Quebec, Canada.
Takk for at du la ut dette.
Great interview Greetings from a fan in Ski🤘🏽
Thanks for putting this on from Moscow, Russia. I have heard Darkthrone for the first time around 1992 or 1993, didn't particularly like them. But there was something that made me want to give it another try some time later.
Steady as always
Great intresting interwiev
It would be epic if Nocturne and Fenriz went ahead and performed a virtual show for all of us as a Christmas present on the most unholy of days ......
I wish he had talked about Panzerfaust as well, but still, great talk!
Panzerfaust is almost criminally underappreciated!
Its such a good album. En Vind av sorg.
Takk igjen for at dere gjorde dette, NB! Det betyr, som dere ser fra kommentarfeltet, enormt mye å få alt som angår svartmetal tekstet på engelsk, ettersom vi har en enorm internasjonal følgerskare som vi burde ivareta!
Det gleder meg å se at dere faktisk giddet dette etter jeg spurte om å selv gjøre det. Linker til denne og til nettsidene på kanalen så får forhåpentligvis flere sett den!
Husker jeg fikk låne A blaze av en kamerat i 92. Husker godt jeg så coveret første gang. Hadde aldri sett noe sånt før. Og etter å ha hørt musikken ble livet aldri det samme!
Tusen takk!
Ted seems like a really cool guy. I love that he doesn't come off as overly self-important. Just a down to Earth rocker.
Remembering that time!
Tapes trading all over the place, young fools but very talentuous skills... nice review🔥🙏
Ett bra val, tack!
I like the fact, that he's having a beer.
Veldig bra intervju Hilsen fra en fan i Ski🤘🏽
Great Wisdom
For sure i will watch it full
congratulations!
Black metal is not my fave genre but I admire what Ted and fenriz have done standing there ground and being true to themselves has truly made them shine threw artistically and musically so congrats guys this is well deserved
Cool! 🔥🔥
I remember when I first had gotten A blaze in the northern sky back i n 1992 on cassette...man..but ever since,been a fan and Sarke is fckin a Killer band as well.
Yeah me too. Didn't know what i had, didn't sound like soulside journey, but i knew i should follow where it was going
He mentioned about Roger Whittaker which reminded me about a finnish cooking show that had Roger Whittaker song finnish whistler as opening tune..and hello from Finland
I was in Norway in the 90's. I experienced part of the milieu through media, fanzines, "det sorte alvor" and other people who had connections to the big bands. In this interview Ted manages to bring back 0 of the atmosphere we felt back then. I understand we have all moved on a long way since then, but when asked about what happened in the 90's one should try to explain how it was.
Ted does say they felt kind of detached from reality back then, so I guess that's why he can't describe what it was. What was it like for you? Do you have any special memories from that era?
@@kseniav586 the thing was that mostly through the music one was sucked into an atmosphere, a lifestyle which was described by many as sinister, depressing. It was not at all depressing in the classical way. It gave a great feeling of having discovered a hidden world where everything was completely out of touch with the world as it is today and was back then in the 90's. I read Tolkien and I, and I am sure many with me, dreamt myself back to the middle ages. It was not only about music. There were fanzines and in Norway at least quite a bit to read through media. Also one had "det svarte alvor" which I recorded on VHS and watched many times. You could read the lyrics and you could read interviews with the big figure heads. Through that each and everyone made their own interpretation of what black metal was then.
In short the ideology or what to call it was about rejecting the modern world and finding a deeper meaning in life. Today I know it is not possible to reject the modern world. At least not completely. Also. The bands and me personally wanted to shock and provoke. Today that is no longer possible. Unless you do something insane and/or illegal.
He's ageing pretty well!
You may find it strange, like I did, but as a matter of fact, there's a Roger Whittaker album on my shelves and it's less than a metre away from my whole complete Darkthrone vinyl discography (only studio originals, not compilations or the excess of double live ones ...).
It made me happy
It feels so good to see that a metal subgenere and a band like these get this kind of recognition. Meanwhile in the USA with a total absurd attitude the rock and roll hall of fame keeps ignoring a legendary band like Judas Priest.
They did add master of puppets to the library of Congress
Norway rules.
Mange takk, Nasjonalbiblioket! Well, I know there are several largely hard-to-be-institutionalized candidates (Euronymous and Vikernes), contenders who now distanced from Black Metal (Satyricon), those who have a health problem (Abbath), so Darkthrone is the safest and reasonable choice. Because, along with Darkthrone activity, Ted has worked longtime as a teacher, Fenriz appeared several times in media and even in college and they have together released their albums very diligently without too much hiatus and without attracting too many controversies. And their early albums were as influential as Burzum and Mayhem, that's for sure!
Recent interview with Ted about the time after “A Blaze in the Northern Sky” here: th-cam.com/video/W5Cx7ccDORE/w-d-xo.html
*Darkthrone FOR LIFE!!!*
Inn I De Dype Skogers Favn....
Darkthrone's Soulside Journey is an underrated album, I love it
Lex Beltran I agree with you and I think the reason is this was their only Death Metal album before they moved to Black Metal and stayed as a Black Metal band for most part of their career, so they were seen as Black Metal band and Soulside Journey got lost in the world of Death Metal albums by 100 % Death Metal bands. But to me it is a Technical Death Metal masterpiece.
@Astute Cingulus Yet it's rarely included in discussions about Darkthrone's discography. Hell, almost nothing after Panzerfaust. I know they weren't estellar records, but each of them has a personality and a style and deserves more recognition.
I absolutely dig that album. It's really well composed with some intricate guitarwork that is really dark & cold. Maybe you have to play an actual instrument to appreciate it, I dunno)
Of course, I like the usual Darkthrone stuff, but Soulside Journey seems very underrated by the Black Metal community.
@@davidgomez7882 Panzerfaust got me on 2nd or 3rd listening. It has lots of good stuff going on with melody in En Vind Av Sorg. A truly beatiful Nordic song.
Hell, anything by Darkthrone has a proper vibe, be it death metal or crust punk. I bet they can make a country song worth some fjords.
Ted and Glyve are a different class
Looks good for 48.
@robert will Born with jeans.
watching youtube i like to think that gylve and ted can't be in the same place at the same time anymore for some reason, like in that old martian gothic game
Well done Ted and Fenriz, raising of the drinking horn to you!
In his jacket, drinking beer instead of water.... legend.
Amazing, nothing except mainstream metal bands would make it into something like this in Western civilization.
Black метаl in the NB i am glad with you guys!
those old style bibliotek with small shelves. same was here in ex soviet union Georgia.
Hail Darkthrone
Har nettopp begynt å se Darkthrone-intervjuer (osv) igjen og følger Nasjonalbiblioteket av andre grunner, perfekt timing ass.
Mange tak, brødre!
🖤 Hail Darkthrone 🖤
@nasjonalbiblioteket - is there an exhibition catalogue/ booklet of the exhibition available?
Hi there! We do not have a catalouge or booklet to the exhibition, but you may download an English version of the exhibition texts through this link: filesender.sikt.no/?s=download&token=6e6628d6-bb76-408d-93c8-3bb778a5a62b The link is valid one month from today.
TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL
his hair looks so soft and manageable
I'm not used to this good interviewers,he knows the genre.
Eventually, Darkthrone get the attention they deserve by being received in the permanent exhibition of highlights from Norwegian cultural history in the National Library of Norway. 'A Blaze in the Northern Sky', which, by the way, sees its 30th anniversary in 2022, is the absolute right choice to be shown in this exhibition.
'Eternal Hails' from Tyskland,
Detlef Schneiders
That feel when you know you will never feel what it feels like to have your band mates suddenly appear at your door asking you to play primitive metal. :_(
Better than your band mate suddenly appearing at your door and stabbing you 23 times.
33:00
"Og jeg dreiv å reka rundt som sullikk i trysil skogene"
hahaahahah