Ofermod

Taking their name from the archaic Swedish word for "bravado," Ofermod were formed in 1996 by vocalist Jonas Tengner (aka Nebiros, Nord, etc.) and guitarist/bassist/drummer Mika Hakola (aka Michayah, Belfagor, etc.), but would spend the next decade mostly haunting the edges of the Scandinavian black metal scene like some kind of bashful phantom. In 1998, the duo unleashed a single entitled "Mystérion Tés Anomias"; in 2004 came a two-song demo, "Netivah Ha-Chokmah"; and a year later, an EP also called Mystérion Tés Anomias arrived, which in fact merely compiled Ofermod's hardly...