Andrea Haugen

Andrea Haugen (born Andréa Meyer; 6 July 1969 – 13 October 2021), also known under her artist names of Aghast, Hagalaz' Runedance, Andréa Nebel, Nebel and Nebelhexë, was a German musician, model and author.

Career

Modelling Haugen worked as a model in London, but soon rejected it as a "shallow scene". She was later a fetish model and participated in Cradle of Filth shows.

Music Haugen has cited her influences as the Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, and The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. She released her first music as Aghast in 1995, then from 1996 to 2002 under the name Hagalaz' Runedance. From 2003 she worked under the name of Nebelhexë, releasing three further albums,

Writing Haugen began writing in 1995. She wrote film scripts, both horror and satire. Many of her social-critical comments were printed in alternative magazines and also in Norwegian tabloids and magazines; she had a column titled "Seriously - The Things That Irritate Nebelhexë" in a Norwegian gothic magazine.

In a 2012 interview, Haugen expressed frustration at some journalists's insistence with finding out and claiming to know the "correct" interpretation of her songs, and named particular cases of some journalists stating that her songs thematised "witches in the woods, nature, Nazism and environmental pollution", when she intended for the songs in question to "very clearly" be about "incest, a friend's suicide, child abuse and loneliness". she was living in Kongsberg when she was murdered at the age of 52 in the Kongsberg attacks on 13 October 2021.

Discography

Aghast Hexerei im Zwielicht der Finsternis, CD/PD 1995

Hagalaz' Runedance When the Trees Were Silenced, 7" 1996 The Winds That Sang of Midgard’s Fate, CD 1998 Urd – That Which Was, MCD/Picture disc 1999 On Wings of Rapture, CD single 2000 Volven, CD/LP/Picture disc 2000 Frigga’s Web, CD/LP 2002

Nebelhexë Laguz – Within the Lake, CD 2004 Essensual, CD 2006 Dead Waters, CD 2009 Don't Kill The Animals, EP, 2009, with US artist Jarboe

Andréa Nebel The Dark Side Of Dreaming, CD 2011

Aghast Manor Gaslights, CD 2012 Penetrate, CD 2013

Guest appearances Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh 1994 (credited as 'Andrea Meyer'). Satyricon – Nemesis Divina 1996