It’s known in every music culture from pop to death metal that the sentimental, aggressive and normalcy-shunning artist personality can lead to a maze of alcohol, drugs, crime and madness. To the infernal legions of deceased promising metal musicians we are sorry to add Trondheim’s Steingrim Torson, vocalist and composer in Celestial Bloodshed, Kaosritual, Selvhat and related projects. On the haunted night of Walpurgis, when witches and demons alight, in the dark woods I could sense some evil spirit, possession happening during the night. And so it came to be in distant Norway – Elendig of Min Kniv and Jammerskrik shot Steingrim in the stomach with a shotgun. Reasons, accidents, chance and guile are irrelevant for the nihilist perception of life as a wheel of events driven by will in a landscape populated by unseen factors and a mankind beset by chaotic, destructive forces.
There would be no reason to make a point out of this if it wasn’t for the fact that these mentioned bands and projects have been the most vital, unique and memorable in the recent history of Norwegian music. The sad fact of a whole mini-scene composed by a small group of people is that the loss of two persons (one to grave, one to imprisonment), can possibly destroy 5 or more bands and projects at once and we were looking forward to some splendid art from these.
In pace requiescat…
Filed under: Death Metal News — Tags: Black Metal, History — Devamitra @ May 7, 2009 10:52 — Comments (0)
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