Troll was founded by Nagash Blackheart, formerly of Dimmu Borgir. It started as quite boring, repetitious black metal on the Trollstorm over Nidinjuv release, then progressed into heavily produced keyboard laden symphonic blackmetal, and now he's added a couple more members. Lyrical themes are about trolls versus christianity, it is very tongue-in-cheek.
In the summer of 1997, he received an offer to perform several concerts with Mumiy Troll in the Far East, after which he became a permanent member of the band.
When the group disbanded due to the death of their bass guitarist, he moved to Moscow where he worked with Pavel Kashin.
He has been a member of the group since the fall of 1997.
According to a 1908 cyclopedia: "Trolls are Dwarfs of Northern mythology, living in hills or mounds; they are represented as stumpy, misshapen, and humpbacked, inclined to thieving, and fond of carrying off children or substituting one of their own offspring for that of a human mother.
Trolls are one of the most frequent creatures of Scandinavian fairy tales and more common than elves, dwarves, witches and giants (in the fairy tales, there is no clear-cut line between witches and female trolls, nor between male trolls and giants).
The trolls were often considered enemies of the Church and sometimes even in league with the Devil, and could as such be scared or repelled with crucifixes, prayers or the sound of church bells.
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