Norway has been ranked as the world’s most prosperous country for seven years running. For the last 12 years, it has been ranked No. 1 on the United Nations’ list of most livable countries. It is ...

Four naked men and women covered in cows’ blood hang suspended from crosses while a rock band plays, bathed in red light. At the edge of the stage is a phalanx of sheep heads, impaled on stakes and ...

Sub-cultural movements, especially those spearheaded by radical new styles of music, can often leave the larger cultures around them forever altered: punk rock, hip-hop, acid house and grime ushered ...

Black metal is simultaneously the scourge of Norway and one of its most renowned cultural exports. What started off as a misanthropic musical statement sank into murder and arson in the early to ...

If a dog can be mayor, then a Norwegian black metal star can certainly be on town council. Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, drummer for the band Darkthrone, agreed to be a backup candidate for the local ...

A metal detectorist recently discovered nine coin-like gold pendants engraved with rare horse symbols, along with 10 gold beads and three gold rings that were buried 1,500 years ago on the Norwegian ...

The suspect accused of burning down three historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish has ties to the "black metal" music scene, a Scandinavian subgenre whose enthusiasts espoused ...

It’s hard to remember now where it was I read that first article on Norwegian black metal back in the ’90s because since then I’ve read and watched everything I could find on the subject. It’s an ...

Jimmy "Ofu Khan" Ivan Bergsten is with the bands Red Harvest and Waklevoren. "There are variations on (Norwegian metal) -- some more symphonic, some more stripped down and brutal," Bendiksen said.