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Episode 119: Nikki Brumen, Blood Command

42 min • 4 februari 2023

Sometimes life works out in the strangest ways. Nikki Brumen was the singer in Pagan, a band from Australia that I was really excited about, until unexpectedly - from where I was enjoying their blackened punk from, anyway – they split up, in 2020. That, as Nikki will explain, was a pretty fucking heavy blow to recover from...

But wait! A member of Pagan told her that Blood Command - a band from Bergen, Norway that, since 2010, have released four near perfect records – needed a new singer. And they wanted Nikki. Which was great! Although it was going to require Nikki packing up her life and moving to the other side of the world. There she would find, not surf, but snow. A new life. New opportunities. As a huge fan of Blood Command’s last record, 2022’s Praise Armageddonism, which Nikki made her vocal debut on, I had to get her on the podcast to find out what that was like, didn’t I...