Knut

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Name, Age: Knut, ageless

Where from?: Oslo, Norway

Family & Pets: Wife

Favorite artist: Black Sabbath

Best label in the world: Vertigo (in the early days, Elusive Sound for now)

Best concert ever: Black Sabbath, whenever

Top Record of 2022: Impermanence by Gilmore Trail

10 Albums for the month-long-stay on the tiny island:

Best joke you always tell: Teacher: „You know pupils, that god is always present. Has someone felt that?“ Pupil: „Yeas teacher. Yesterday he was at our house!“ Teacher: „Oh. That is great. How do you know that, what did you feel or hear?“ Pupil: „When my father was opening the toilet door he said, `Oh my god, are you sitting here?´“

Favorite Drink: Strathisla single malt whisky, 35 YO

Most important piece of advice to tell your 20-year-old-self: Remember to not stop listening to metal and hard rock in the 90s when stupids will be making a mess of the scene.

Your own text if you want to tell the world something else: Born to be mild.

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Playlist

This exemplary playlist was curated by Agabas, whose cool record combines Death Metal, Doom Jazz and a lot of anger into a heated and energetic mix! Recently we reviewed their record A Hate Supreme which also shows that combination to the T. Their playlist combines their love for everything heavy and chaotic (Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Meshuggah) with a lot of other things like Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane or Spidergawd!

We write a lot of our music with the live format in mind. Some parts are simply designed to open up the pit. The first band on this playlist, Honningbarna, is one of our biggest influences, at least when it comes to live shows. I’m not suggesting that they necessarily write their music the same way, I wouldn’t know, but anyone who’s had the pleasure of seeing them live will know just how thrilling it is when the band uses the extreme dynamics of heavy music to play with the crowd. It creates a real synergy between the music and the people in the room, which is something we strive to nail as well. The rest of the bands on this list are really just bands who have impacted us and how we write our music in some way - riffs, song structure, tricks, arrangement - it’s all in there. And then there are some jazz tunes, probably self-explanatory. It’s good music, check it out!

Agabas