"Fit To Kill" sounds more heavy and old-school for sure. We wanted this one to have a different production. Dirty, but massive. Drums are more organic and the bass is so fuckin' heavy.

My good friend Audun Grønnestad. He's a local guy and he's helped me with many projects and albums before. Drums and vocals on Brutalitarian Regime and self-titled was done in his studio.

This is Meathook's contribution to a straight forward heavy/thrash metal song, deathified by BRT, haha. The lyrics by Bolt is a continuation of "Primitive Killing Machine" from self-titled.

That sound is so bad-ass dude. I made a massive sound in studio, but Audun did some tweeking as well, and now it's like a ten ton hammer. Power!

I didn't plan this song to be that long. I just started with this psychedelic intro riff followed up by the monster groovy part. Our good friend from Wyruz did the main solo. The rest is me(Død). The riffs just kept comin' and all of a sudden the longest BRT song in history was made.

I play most of the leads. Meathook have some and he's killer with the vibrato.

I still use my signature Halo guitar. The last few years I've been using PodFarm from Line 6. A lot of tweeking of course. Live, I'm actually back to basic with the Boss Metal Zone mt-2.

I write all my songs in my home studio. Meathook comes to my studio when he has finished his songs. Sometimes I help re-arranging them. Then we put on bass and send it to Freddy and Bolt. Bolt adds vocals in his home studio and finally Freddy records real drums in whatever studio we book. This studio often mix the album as well.

From all the shitty music being released. It drives me to write even more quality stuff.

We don't even rehearse. Freddy and Bolt lives far away. I don't think we've rehearsed more than a couple of times the last few years. Having said that, our step-in drummer lives around, so Meathook, Gunner and I sometimes meet up with him and play through the live set.

That's actually the most tricky part of composing I think. I don't wanna just throw in something and I sometimes spend hours finishing the lead parts, finding the perfect notes and feeling. My leads are always melodic. Not cheesy, but I was never a fan of chromatic and speedy leads ala SLAYER and old DEICIDE. I want cool melodies highlighting the songs.

By staying away from the guitar for days and weeks. I don't play every day for sure. Sometimes I don't play in 2-3 weeks. This gives me inspiration I guess when first picking up the guitar and I don't have any problems creating music. After all, I've released 21 albums since 2000!

It's still standard tuning in B, 7 string guitars.

I'm a huge fan of groove. Next to my fave band DEATH, comes PANTERA. It's just the way I write my music. I never use the same drum beat for a long time. The arrangements of songs is something I've focused a lot on the last few years. When it all comes down to it, it's about the great riffs and how they're put together. Add a little groove there and you have the recipe!

Many bands of today focus on speed and technicality. Luckily, there are some bands into the groove too. Our friends in DAWN OF DEMISE and ILLDISPOSED for instance.

I was always more fan of the US death metal. It's just more catchy in my ears. I like European extreme metal too, it's just something about the americans' riffs that hit me.

SATYRICON was actually the very first band I've played in. I was heavily into Black Metal in the 90's. I still like Black Metal, but Death Metal was always my biggest thing and it was just a question of time before I would start a Death Metal band.

My mother listened to rock music and I stole some of her CD's, haha. It was YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and JOE SATRIANI among others. She also had TNT's "Tell No Tales" on cassette and in 1987 I was hooked. Then the obvious came with METALLICA and AC/DC etc. But, in 1991, I was introduced to heavier music like PESTILENCE, OBITUARY, GOREFEST and I totally liked it right away. A year later, Black Metal was my thing.

My best friend at that time played guitar and he was awesome. I tried to pick up the guitar and play with him, but he was way better than I. I kept playing for myself. This was in 1991 I think. Another friend of mine bought a drum kit and we jammed in my basement. We actually recorded three tracks through a cassette player and it sounded pretty decent. Then I moved to a different city. I practiced the guitar for hours every day. And it paid off, cause in 1996 I was offered the job as SATYRICON's live guitarist. I stayed with them for 3 years.

Joe Satriani, Chuck Schuldiner, and Dimebag!

I never played in Norway with SATYRICON I think. But, I watched many of the legendary Black Metal shows here in Norway. I also played quite many local shows with my first band, SCARIOT, in the 90's.

I still appreciate Black Metal. I think you will find some riffs in BRT that easily could be in a Black Metal band. In case you didn't know, the original singer of BRT and I have had this very underground Black Metal project for 20 years. We've released two albums. COBOLT 60 that is.

There are still many great bands here. The atmosphere was different before though. It was more magic playing in a band. Nowadays, everybody does. Bands hung together and supported each other. Now, it's a solo race to make it out of the jungle. I still try to support my friends and bring their bands on tour whenever I can.

We just got back home from our release party in Denmark. We also played a cool festival the next day. In October we have gigs in Belgium and Holland and then a mini tour in UK. Finally, coming back to Scotland. Must be 10 years since we played there. Damnation festival will be cool as well. There will new shows added to that list every week!

Of lately, definitely going to the 70k cruise. Can't describe it. Insane! However, going to Mexico for the first time, when our label at that time told us it never would happen, was fuckin' awesome. The 6 week US tour with DIMMU BORGIR is also one of our highlights.