NEWS 2020/05/20
Johan Hegg lives with his wife in an old house surrounded by fields and farms. Based in the countryside of central Sweden, the couple’s nearest city is Örebro, with a population of around 140,000, just a few miles down the road. When Johan needs to travel into town, he does so in what he calls his “eco-diesel car”, a ride he describes as “not being super-good for the environment”. He mitigates this by quickly adding that he’s “going to get a new car next year – probably a chargeable hybrid”. If the image of the singer with the world’s premier Viking metal band pootling about the Swedish countryside in a vehicle that requires eight hours’ charge before it can be used for a pillage seems incongruous, then think again. Johan’s fascination with the Scandinavians that dominated Northern Eu...