Mortiis first gained notice in the early '90s playing bass for influential Black Metal act Emperor. After leaving the band in 1992, the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist started recording dark ambient music as a solo artist, gaining a cult audience throughout the world
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"You are so gentlemanly and is so -- direct," Patrizia Mazzuoccolo -- who carefully chose her words -- said to Darkthrone frontman Nocturno Culto.
"Well people would say that we are a bit too direct now ... we just want to be unpopular," he replied...