Hugh Platt has a strange relationship with Eurovision and metal; he once high-five’d two members of Lordi in the toilets at the Metal Hammer Awards. Wonder how he took the news that Susperia are throwing their hat into the ring?

Blackly-tinged Norwegian thrashy types, Susperia, have decided they want to represent Norway at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest – so much so that they’ve hooked up with former-Dimmu Borgir (and, truth be told, former-Susperia) keyboard tinkler, Mustis, to write a song that that will appeal enough to the Norwegian public to choose them to represent them at the Eurovision finals in Germany next May.

But does anyone, y’know, actually give a shit about metal sticking it’s dick in Eurovision’s gaping song-hole anymore?

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2009 is not shaping up to be a good year for Susperia singer, Pal ‘Athera’ Mathiesen. After suffering a heart attack earlier this month, the vocalist was admitted to hospital in Norway in need of a triple-heart bypass. Although the surgery turned out to be a little more complicated than that.

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Pal Mathieson, singer of Norwegian black metallers Susperia is under close observation in intensive care in an Oslo hospital after suffering a heart attack.

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