I knew I’d speak with Thomas Eriksen again. We first spoke in 2023 after he released his sixth album as Mork, Dypet. In conversation, he was warm, open, and self-aware, the inverse of the insularity Mork projected. At that time, he was in the midst of a turning point for his life project--black metal that, on one hand, seemingly had never listened to a record past 1993, while on the other was innately tied to Eriksen’s personal growth.