Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell once told Kerrang!: “If your life is a bore, you’re going to end up writing about some bullshit you’ve never experienced.” If where we’ve been and what we’ve done is indeed creative currency then Hans Erik Dyvik Husby (aka Hank von Helvete aka Hank von Hell) is a very rich man. He was frontman of Norwegian death punks Turbonegro, blending raucous, irreverent tunes with a homoerotic aesthetic, and a desire for self-destruction in the name of art made more realistic by his increasingly debilitating heroin use. Hank subsequently quit Turbonegro, having kicked his drug habit with the help of Scientology, formed supergroup Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult with members of KMFDM and Satyricon, made films and musicals, fronted cookbooks, and explod...
