First off, let’s just get something out of the way: Norway rocks. Sitting on an oil reserve for decades and then using the profits of that to craft a socialist’s wet dream for all of its citizens while said populace goes about creating their most nihilistic, self-aware, intelligent art is my ultimate idea of an absolute win. Objectively speaking, having a hyper-educated people with access to all the resources necessary for creating their perspective of a world around them (one that, thanks to geography, is steeped in ice and darkness half the year) has yielded some of the most compelling, grim and dark creative endeavours this world has seen. This leads me to Black Void, the alter ego to the band’s decidedly more melodic/softer counterpart, White Void. In the same vein as Iskra, Martyrdod ...