Grieghallen
Modernist concrete concert hall and orchestra home, also a storied black metal recording venue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Grieghallen in Bergen, the concert hall built for the city's orchestra and named for Edvard Grieg, turns to a different kind of music made in the same building. It follows the engineer Eirik Hundvin, known as Pytten, and the young Norwegian black metal musicians who came to record here in the early nineteen nineties, among them Euronymous and Varg Vikernes. Best heard on Edvard Griegs plass, facing the hall's concrete front.
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