Hellhammer

Hellhammer is, to me, the quiet constant at the center of one of music's most notorious bands. Hellhammer joined Mayhem in 1988 and is the only member to play on every studio album, which means he drummed through the chaos, the deaths, and the reinventions that made Norwegian black metal infamous. I find that durability more impressive than any single beat: outlasting a band defined by instability takes a particular kind of stubbornness. The fact that he's a busy session player too tells me the reputation isn't just folklore; other artists actually want those hands behind the kit.

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Name (English)

Hellhammer

Name (Japanese)

ヤン・アクセル・ブロンベルク

Reading

やん・あくせる・ぶろんべるく

Born

August 2, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Trysil Municipality, Norway

Occupation

drummer / musician / session musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

• Official sitehttps://www.hellhammerdrummer.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellhammer%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370323

Tags

• Trysil Municipality
• drummer
• musician
• session musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.