Long before they instigated the Good Friday massacre, during
which they torched dozens of churches and committed innumerable heinous acts of
violence and in so doing transformed a normally tranquil if hopelessly clumsy Norway
into an unimaginable dystopian nightmare. Long before they slaughtered their
pet goats and drank the blood, donned corpse paint, rechristened themselves as
Demonic Infestation, and unleashed a towering inferno of black metal chaos so
menacing and intense that it induced legions of young evil-doers to take up
guitars, embrace the southern Lord and wreak unrelenting havoc across Northern
Europe. Long before all this, they were Norway’s most delightful export since
lutefisk, a husband-and-wife folk duo known as Mike and Else.
