AVKRVST

The nihilistic Norwegians with prog rock running in their blood.

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AVKRVST’S NAME IS pronounced“Aw-crust”. Don’t worry if you ever get that wrong, though: the band have made the same mistake as well. “We pronounced the first V at first,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Bergseth admits to Prog. “We used to say‘Av-crust’, but the band are named after a guy called Kjell Aukrust – we just swapped the‘U’s for the letter‘V’. Other bands have been doing that for ages.” Kjell Aukrust was a Norwegian poet and artist. The reason the band named themselves after him is that he had the same hometown as they do, Alvdal. Bergseth and AVKRVST’s other co-founder, drummer and synth player Martin Utby, grew up there together, then reunited in the same town to make what would become their debut album, The Approbation. “Martin’s dad is my…

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