Ivar Nickolaisen has never met Helmut Von Botnlaus. Truth be told, says Kvelertak’s frontman, very few people have. The legend of Helmut goes something like this: born at the tail end of World War II to a German soldier father and a local 16-year-old mother, as he grew up Helmut became a pariah in his small hometown in southwest Norway’s Stavanger region, from where Kvelertak themselves hail. “It was really hard to be the child of a German and a woman who was seen as betraying her country by being with one,” Ivar explains. “A mob forced him to run away and up to the mountains, where he stayed all his life, growing more and more misanthropic, and against the modern world.” Helmut’s was a name that Ivar kept coming across during long walks thro...