Jan Axel Blomberg

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Jan Axel Blomberg (born August 2, 1969) is a Norwegian heavy metal drummer, known professionally as Hellhammer.

He is best known as the drummer of Mayhem, which he joined in 1988.

In 1987 Blomberg formed the avant-garde black metal band Arcturus (under the name Mortem) with Steinar Sverd Johnsen, which broke up in April 2007 and reunited in 2011.

He named himself after the Swiss extreme metal band Hellhammer.

Praised as a talented musician, Blomberg is a three-time winner of the Spellemannprisen award.

Early life

As a child, Blomberg's main interests were football (soccer) and wrestling. At first he had no interest in drums or drumming, but as music became more appealing to him he started to find the different instruments interesting, which eventually led to an interest in drums. His grandparents purchased him his first three drum kits; the first one was a four-piece jazz kit. With these he began learning how to play drums by playing along with albums he listened to. He was into heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica and Slayer, but also bands like Depeche Mode and Duran Duran. He then found out about Venom and Celtic Frost and eventually jazz, due to influences from a past drum teacher.

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Career

Blomberg played in various local bands, including the progressive metal band Tritonus, where he met Carl August Tidemann, the man who became the Arcturus and Winds guitarist. He appeared on live performances as well as being recruited by Mayhem, who needed to replace Kjetil Manheim; Blomberg took the job and assumed the pseudonym Hellhammer.

Mayhem's first recordings were two songs on a compilation album in 1989, with the songs Carnage and The Freezing Moon. Live in Leipzig in 1990, he did the first proper recording of him with Mayhem. Mayhem had some issues with the line up following the singer Dead and Necrobutcher's departure from the band on the album. He formed Arcturus in 1991 with Sverd, who were unaware of the band Mortem's remnants. In 1991, the 7" My Angel was released, and later on Constellation, they released the mini album Constellation. He joined Immortal as a session drummer on their first official video, Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms, in 1995. During this period, he appeared for Emperor for a brief period. Aspera Hiems Symfonia's debut album Aspera Hiems Symfonia was also released this year.

In 1997, Jan Axel began working with Covenant, now known as The Kovenant, on their second album, Nexus Polaris. Following a European tour, the album was released in 1998. La Masquerade Infernale, Arcturus's 1997 album, was also released in 1997.

Animatronic's next album from The Kovenant will be released next year.

He recorded an album with his new band Winds, Of Entity And Mind, which was released in May 2001. Reflections of the I. Winds released a full-length album in spring 2001.

Jan Axel is now a two-time Norwegian Grammy Awards winner, as well as in 1999 for The Kovenant with Nexus Polaris, and in 1999 with Animatronic. Both years, they were awarded the prize for their best hard rock album. In addition to these mentioned appearances, Jan Axel has appeared on several occasions as a guest or session musician on other platforms.

In 2005, he was interviewed for the black metal mini-documentary included with the 2-disc DVD version of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, as well as other Mayhem participants Necrobutcher (Jrn Stubberud) and Blasphemer (Rune Eriksen).

Hellhammer performed drums on six tracks on Eyes of Noctum in 2009. Eyes of Noctum is a black metal band from America starring Weston Cage, the son of Nicolas Cage's son, as their lead singer.

On one of his albums, Hellhammer worked with keyboardist Andy Winter.

He appeared on Nidingr's album Wolf-Father in 2010. Arcturus reunited in 2011, hellhammer included, and Arcturia was released in 2015.

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