{"id":138643,"date":"2025-11-14T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:01:08","slug":"members-of-black-metal-bands-thorns-and-slagmaur-are-missing-after-hiking-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138643\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of black metal bands Thorns and Slagmaur are missing after hiking in the forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian outlet <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fosen-folket.no\/artikler\/to-menn-savnet-etter-fjelltur\">Fosen Folket <\/a>reports that black metal figure Snorre Ruch of Thorns and his friend Rune Krieghr R\u00f8stad a.k.a. General Gribbsphiiser of Slagmaur have been declared missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>R\u00f8stad posted a photo of the two on Facebook earlier this week before heading out for a &#8220;boys&#8217; hike and night under open skies&#8221; in the Varghiet forests. No one has heard from them since.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities haven&#8217;t confirmed what route they took, and the Varghiet region in Fosen (Tr\u00f8ndelag, central Norway) is reportedly difficult to access. Police have begun search efforts and released photos and descriptions of both men. A storm is also moving into the area, complicating the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Thorns\u2014despite only releasing one full-length in 2001\u2014remains a cornerstone of Norway&#8217;s second-wave black metal. Ruch (a.k.a. Blackthorn) also played briefly with Mayhem and guested with Satyricon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Slagmaur last appeared live at 2023&#8217;s Unholy Congregation fest in Belgium with their notorious &#8220;Execution Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taken directly from the article:<\/p>\n<p>Here is the information the police share to all potential witnesses:<\/p>\n<p>NAME: Rune Krieghr R\u00f8stad<br \/>Height: 189 cm<br \/>Hair color: Blonde<br \/>Eye color: Blue<\/p>\n<p>NAME: Snorre W. Ruch<br \/>Height: 175 cm<br \/>Hair color: Blonde<br \/>Eye color: Blue<\/p>\n<p>The pair were last wearing black rain jacket and naval jacket from the Coast Defense, as well black turbopants and high boots. Both were dressed to stay out for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwegian outlet Fosen Folket reports that black metal figure Snorre Ruch of Thorns and his friend Rune Krieghr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,639,61,60,51597,637,278,43,79940,79938,79939,79937],"class_list":["post-138643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news","tag-rune-krieghr-rstad","tag-slagmaur","tag-snorre-ruch","tag-thorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}