Thorr’s Hammer reunion at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival

JamMin of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with  Thorr’s Hammer’s Runhild Gammelsæter. An excerpt from the interview follows below.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or find anything slower than Agoraphobic Nosebleed “a bit dull and uninteresting”, you’ve probably heard that legendary doom troupe Thorr’s Hammer (the Thorr’s Hammer that gave us drone daddys Stephen O’Malley and Gregg Anderson) have reunited to play this year’s Supersonic Festival (24 – 26 July at Birmingham Custard Factory).

Sufficed to say we were a bit excited, so naturally we bombarded the University Of Oslo with phone calls and emails until we got hold of Dr Runhild Gammelsæter to get the lowdown on the whys, whens and hows from the vocalist extraordinaire.

People often have a quite cynical view of bands getting back together (and rightly so), so why was now the right time to do this?

“We didn’t want to do a reunion previously because we thought it sort of cynical, not ‘cult’ and not ‘true’ as we say in metal. All members of TH are old friends, I still call Steve when I have a broken heart. I love those guys to death. But we are getting old, people are having babies, careers, living all over the world, rarely seeing each other. We loved the idea of having an opportunity to fly everyone in, spend time together and experiencing the vibe between us again. It may be the last opportunity we have to do that.”

Please read the full article at: SIGN OF THE HAMMER | Terrorizer.com.

Tags: doom, greg anderson, Runhild Gammelsæter, stephen o malley, supersonic festival, terrorizer, Thor's Hammer

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