Late last month, Norwegian black-metal act Mork announced they’ve put the finishing touches on their seventh album, Syv (Peaceville), and that it’ll arrive on September 20. The occasion will be extra-sweet for project originator Thomas Eriksen, as this year marks two decades since he spawned his unsettling, corpse-paint-obsessed endeavor. Go to The Big Takeover to read my interview with Eriksen shortly before he brought Mork to the United States for the first time five years ago, and the chance encounter he had with Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren in Las Vegas.
The Bad Penny (beta) 