I am a video game developer, (in one sense a…) classically trained composer, audio director at Adventales and performing blackened punk vocalist with a master's degree in Film Music (NMH/DNF) and a bachelor's degree from Det frie kandidatstudiet-program in composition (NMH).

I am a co-founder of indie game developer Adventales, and act as the company’s musical director, composer and sound designer. I also make my own games — Gjerdingsæterkvadet is planned to release Q1 2028.

I work equally with art music and popular music and have been featured in a chapter of the book "Nye hip-hop hoder" (Øyvind Holen) for my contribution to Norwegian rap music.

Renowned music magazines such as Gaffa, Bands of Tomorrow, and Rubato have covered several of my releases (spanning genres from electronica to chamber-pop and hardcore punk). My music has been played-, and I have been interviewed by channels in France, Wales, and Canada (as both a disco DJ and a black metal vocalist) — as well as by NRK (Official Norwegian Broadcasting) — first as a psychedelic rocker on "Siri og Co" and "Felbergs Loft," and later, by phone on a train heading to a gig in Hamburg, as an AI expert in the arts field on NRK Møre og Romsdal.

In 2012, 60s legend Donovan Leitch described my music as “A new encounter of the rock kind,” and former Darkthrone guitarist Zephyrous became a big fan of my band Blodknoke after seeing us play at Oslo’s punk rock hangout, Enga Pub.

My works always originate from characters and concepts: In 2015, I delved deep into both method-acting and the hip-hop underground, as the masked, Danish-Bergen-based rapper $vai-Rex. I performed concerts, made music videos, and gave interviews (including one in D2) in character. It wasn’t until the release of the book "Nye hip-hop hoder" that I revealed my real name and retired the character for a few years.

The character Hatskrømt was my response to the classical perception of Norwegian black metal artists as introverted, nature-worshipping misanthropes. I write lyrics so overblown — yet balancing on a knife’s edge — that they narrowly (at least hopefully) avoid falling into parody. All Hatskrømt lyrics revolve around my video-game word: the fictional universe of the rural area Gjerdingsæter — a paradise on Earth — and Myrriket, where the evil sorcerer Golmotgon and his henchmen reside.

With Blodknoke, I aim to strike a similar textual chord by writing lyrics so parodic and full of wordplay and peculiar references that the "terrible" aspects of it all become simply amusing. Blodknoke has toured extensively in Norway, played the Inferno Festival, and even opened for metal legends Cradle of Filth.