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Iron Maiden: Song by Song (2025)
As British hard rock legends Iron Maiden set out to celebrate 50 years since the band’s inception in the 1970s, Fonthill Media in the UK publishes my account of their history.
Through decades of changing line-ups and music trends, I go album by album and song by song up to the present day. The book covers every Iron Maiden album, including 1980s classics like The Number of the Beast and Powerslave, as well as modern Maiden masterpieces like Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death, to chart the entire history of one of rock’s most enduring institutions.
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Villmark (2024)
A Norwegian-language account of the making of the first modern Norwegian horror film, Dark Woods, directed by Pål Øie and released in 2003. Through conversations with the director, with acclaimed actor Kristoffer Joner, and several other artists of the production, I trace the creation of a Norwegian trailblazer and the subsequent Øie films that include the horror movie Hidden (2009), the surrealist sequel Dark Woods 2 (2015), the disaster drama The Tunnel (2019), and the upcoming monster movie Kraken (2026).
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Norwegian Nightmares: The Horror Cinema of a Nordic Country (2022)
There was only one proper Norwegian horror film before 2000, the 1958 classic Lake of the Dead (Kåre Bergstrøm). But with the success of Dark Woods (Pål Øie) in 2003, the floodgates opened. Norway is the only Nordic country to produce a steady flow of both mainstream and underground horror, averaging about 3 to 5 such thrilling cinema experiences every year since Dark Woods.
Norwegian Nightmares charts the development of the Norwegian horror cinema and its relation to chiefly American influences. The book covers horror films as diverse as the slasher movie Cold Prey (Roar Uthaug, 2006), the monster comedy Troll Hunter (André Øvredal, 2010), the supernatural thriller Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017), and the return to the waters of deadly suppression in Dark Woods 2 (Pål Øie, 2015) and Lake of Death (Nini Bull Robsahm, 2019). The Nordic and Arctic horror of Norway has its source in deep and dark waters, woods, wilderness, mountains, snow and ice.
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