FROM KRAGERØ – explores Theodor Kittelsen’s influence on black metal

Argentine horror writer Nicolás Francis had been listening to Burzum for years before he learned the name of the Norwegian artist whose work appears on the cover of Filosofem. The connection came to light after a journalist in Kragerø interviewed him about a horror story he had set in her town. That discovery led him to write From Kragerø, an essay on Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian folklore and the images that found a second life on black metal records.

For the second edition, Francis interviewed Thomas Eriksen of Mork and Per Th. Kittelsen, the artist’s grandson. Their interviews bring a musician’s perspective and a family connection to the story of how Kittelsen’s art reached listeners as far away as Argentina.

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Photo of Nicolás Francis by Griselda Cuellar. Cover illustration by Griselda Cuellar.