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  When I was 6 years old my brother sat me down in front of the stereo. Gave me a pair of headphones and put on a record. What I heard in the speakers was a voice with lots of authority saying...
“Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea,
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath,
because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the Number of the Beast for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six."
 
My heart stopped beating and my blood froze. New to this phenomenon called music you could say I got off on the wrong foot directly.
From here on it would only get worse. A year later I saw some guys on the tv with the frontman in black/grey hair eating raw meat singing how he wants to be somebody.
And by seeing this I knew exactly what I wanted in life.
Several awakenings like the ones mentioned above would occur after this. And by the time I discovered Slayer I thought it was about time I got a guitar.
Said and done. My Fame Hondo was black and shiny. Yet I couldn’t get it to sound like Iron Maiden nor Slayer. Although some of my playing reminded of a band called Misfits. So I tried to play along to some of their songs and that lead me to several “aha-moments”. So after lots of practice my playing would end up sounding like Slayer.
I started playing in a band but at the time noone else in the band wanted to play as brutal as I did. So I found another band that was more into the style I wanted to play. But when things finally started going in the right direction the drummer and the bass player completely changed their direction and went on to some Jazz-metal shit.
Some months later I joined Nominon and here I was home. Death metal with the roots in thrash metal. We recorded our first album in Sunlight studios where we could get the sound we were looking for at the time.
After a couple of years Nominon lost the bass player we had and we found someone to take his place in Lenny Blade. Lenny had another band called Incinerator, a thrash metal act. Incinerator needed a guitar player at the time so we kind of swapped duties. I started playing guitar in Incinerator and Lenny started playing bass in Nominon.
After almost 10 years in Nominon and 7 years in Incinerator I got tired of shredding death and thrash metal riffs and wanted to try something new.
I was asked by a Stockholm based act called Rise and Shine to fill in for their guitar player who just recently had quit the band.
At the time it looked like Rise and Shine was going somewhere with a strong label and music that might reach a bigger audience than dirty death metal ever will.
But with a lot of trouble with the label nothing ever happened. During almost two years of negotiating with the label we finally recorded an album. The rest of the members wanted me to move to Stockholm in order to be able to practise on a more frequent basis. I didn’t want to move so we went separate ways. And at this point I was ready to put my guitar in a dark corner in the cellar. And I did so for a while.
But after meeting Emil at a party he started discussing how he wanted to create something new since he was tired of the situation in Marduk. Me and Emil had a past in Nominon so I knew we would get along both musically and agree on the amount of booze that should be drunk during one weeks time.
Emil and Legion started doing some riffs and I joined them to arrange some of the songs they had ideas for. Brought some of my own material and started working on what later became “Ninewinged Serpent”.  Joinus - December 2007
   
     
   
 

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