HJELVIK

of the last decade there was no new band as hotly tipped or exciting as Kvelertak. After blowing a hole in the scene following the release of their incredible self-titled debut album, the Norwegian black’n’rollers spent the next few years receiving patronage of Dave Grohl, being handpicked to opens tours with legendary metal heavyweights such as Metallica, Slayer and Mastodon, topping the charts in their homeland and winning a pair of Spellemannprisen awards, the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammys, to boot. One of the decade’s genuine metal success stories, they