One second. That is approximately how long Nikki Brumen reckons it took her to accept the invitation to join Blood Command as their new singer when guitarist and mastermind Yngve Andersen sent her a Facebook message out of the blue on February 28, 2020. “As fast as it took to type, ‘Yes, absolutely,’ that’s how long it took me to respond,” Nikki says from her new home in Bergen, with a casualness that makes packing up your life to move from Australia to Norway sound as simple as nipping down the shops. “Yngve must have thought I was actually insane accepting so quickly, but I really loved the band! They encapsulated all of the sounds I wanted in Pagan.” Pagan, the prosecco and disco-fuelled metal band Nikki fronted for seven years, had just called it qu...