I am a video game music composer 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 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 Ivar Enger 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 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 and even opened for metal legends Cradle of Filth.

Looking ahead (as of 2025), I have several releases planned, and I’m also delving into composing for video games: the masked rapper $vai-Rex will soon release a comeback album in collaboration with rising star-producer Dollar-Nill$, Blodknoke will debut its first studio album, Hatskrømt will finally perform live for the first time; and as Sam Asgari, I have started my journey as a video game composer — head over to the “News”-page to get the latest update!