Kvelertak Laugh Off Illuminati Rumours

"There's been a lot of rumours about us,” Erlend Hjelvik, frontman for Norwegians Kvelertak begins. “The most recent one was that we were part of the Illuminati, because of the owls that we use. Like a secret society. I don't remember the whole thing, but it's like a big conspiracy thing.

“We don't respond to it; it's more fun if people think it,” he adds, chuckling. “Then there's another one that was there in Norway. Because we got played on the radio, there was a guy spreading rumours that one of our parents was friends with the executives at the NRK, the state channel. Just the stupid shit people are coming up with all the time. They have to think of something.

“The one that people always keep saying, a lot of people think for some reason that the 'K' is silent, so they keep going 'velertak'. That's the one we've heard in the States. Then there's been like the rumour going around that our name meant 'owl penis', so there were a lot of people believing that for a while,” he laughs again. “I'm not sure if they do anymore.”

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