Seb: Greetings Sorg! First of all congratulations for your album, it’s really great and I can’t even count how often I listened to it yet.
Sorg: Greetings to you and all comrades in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland! It really pleasures me to hear that my music is appreciated!

Seb: The five songs on Fortapt Fra Verden i Vakkert Selvmord span a period of about five years. Is that your normal working speed, or did you just want to come up with a representative cross section of your work?
Sorg: It really isn’t that complicated my friend. This album I never made to be released and the play list is more or less accidental. I can use months on a song, meaning that I don’t finish a work without having that certain spirit and feeling connected to it, and feelings, as you know, don’t appear on command so then I can only wait until these small moments appear to get a honest result. While I can compose other songs under an hour! My newest album contains a song like this, UnderligtVidunderligt, and history tells us that it isn’t only weakness with songs composed on short time. One of our times most famous songs, "silent night", is an example for this, the song was made by a local priest in Vienna within 10 minutes when they found out that the maestro was ill and had all the notes for their Christmas concert. Silent night is perhaps the most famous song in the world today (this is not necessarily an indicator for a good song as we all can understand taking a look at today’s commercial world). I am not sure if this story is true but it is in any case a good story.

Seb: Your song Skog Of Mark features some sheep samples accompanied by some pretty weird singing. That’s a bit astonishing as you would expect almost anything but sheep in a metal song. How did that idea strike you?
Sorg: It is complex my friend and it is a very complex song emotionally. It is the sound of my life, the sound of my home place, Hagland.

Seb: There are rumors around that Gravkald, who formerly contributed the drumming for SORGSVART, will return. Anything real about it?
Sorg: Haha, no, that rumor has nothing to do with the reality, I always arrange the drumming myself and this time I also will do some of the drumming personally and the rest will be taken care of by my good friend Skarstein from the new local band Gravemachine.

Seb: And if so, are there plans to form a ”real band” under the label SORGSVART? Is there any chance you will perform live some day?
Sorg: No, SORGSVART has always been and will always be a one man band. Only this way the true nature of my music can appear. Playing live has never given me anything else then stress and agony because I don’t like to be around humans. You never know what they have in mind. And even if people have recommended me to play live to become more "famous", I reject this. I will never make an effort to become commercial and be blinded of capitalistic anti values!

Seb: When listening to your music, names like Bathory and Windir came to mind. Are they among the bands that exert influence to SORGSVART? And which other bands are inspirations to you?
Sorg: My inspiration is only captured from the depth of my own black hearted soul. If someone attempts to copy something which once came from another person’s individual mind, they will only end up as fakes with no strength and character to liberate their own unique spirit to create something original! Imagine, out of 1000 persons at least 999 are followers while 1 person tries to lead his own development with his own free thoughts as a foundation for his existence. And just to take the whole thing a little further, on world basis 1 out of 1000 persons choose to commit suicide as some kind of high way away from their lives...

Seb: Anywhere I read that Nocturno Culto is one of your project’s biggest fans. What does it mean to you, that one of the all time greats in Black Metal history adores your work?
Sorg: It is strange how everything changes when someone "famous" comes with a statement, not for me but for people in general. You must remember that Comrade Culto also was born equal to you and me and everyone else and that will never change independently from which "title" or "position" one has been given through media. Ted is a friendly person, a good musician which knows black metal better then the most of us and in light of this it honors me a lot that he is among the supporters of my free minded anarchistic music.

Seb: Do you already have new material up your sleeves? I am sure there are lots of people being anxious for a new and longer album, especially in Germany ;)
Sorg: Yes! As a matter of fact my new album Vikingtid og Anarki is as you surely know by now planned to be released the 26th of October. This is a longer album than the previous one, and the most important thing, the quality and the music is in another dimension when it comes to greatness! As I said it was never my intention to release Fortapt fra Verden i Vakkert Selvmord, so many things went on first take and the planning wasn’t to good. On Vikingtid og Anarki I can offer you my full attention, but nevertheless the sound shouldn’t become too polished! This album is more direct and aggressive than the more melancholic Fortapt fra Verden i Vakkert Selvmord album. For sure you know a SORGSVART song when you hear it but I think people will be stunned by the variation of music and emotions on this one! It has to be like regarding that my music only appears from my own free rebellious mind. People (at least when it comes to me and my troubled soul) travel through a whole specter of paradox and different feelings, these feelings are creating a sort of atmosphere with a lot of melodies, singing etc. for me. It’s similar to how some people see colors or figures during a emotional process.
Vikingtid og Anarki will contain between 7 and 9 tracks of black metal on the highest level of sincerity and the songs are as always long, so it will be over an hour of music. For me in person this album contains everything and don’t take me for being an arrogant and self-assured dick licker when I say that this album is the absolute finest piece of music which ever stroke my ears and soul. This one is for any of you who have been depressed by the ruling system through your life, never stop believing in a common future in harmony!

P.S. Follow me in studio at this address www.blackdimension.net/

Seb: Your music indicates a very close touch with nature, and if I am correctly informed, you live kind of out of the world scenery without much civilization. What does nature mean to you and what made you dislike civilization?
Sorg: I notice that you spoke to my good friend Olaf, haha. That is correct. I live deep in the Norwegian woods with my animals. Ask yourself, "what has civilization done for you?" The answer you come up with is probably "nothing". And if you turn the question into "What has civilization done to you?", you will soon find a lot of answers. It is no good for humanity living together as long they are brought up in a world with today’s society morals. You can see the results yourself, war, disease, racism, violence, poverty, force-abusing, the list is endless! So until the revolution comes I prefer my own company to keep my mind pure from the pollution which appears with many faces out there.

Seb: Thanks for answering my questions and best wishes for the future!
Sorg: Keep faith comrade!