Andrea Haugen


Andrea Haugen, also known under her artist names of Aghast, Hagalaz' Runedance, Andréa Nebel, Nebel and Nebelhexë, was a German musician, model and author.
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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, and also used the name Andréa Nebel and released electronic horror-mood music as Aghast Manor.

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. She published an e-book titled Simply Exceptional – How to make it your Way!.
She also wrote Gothic and surreal poetry, and in 2011 released a spoken word CD to accompany her poetry anthology The Dark Side of Dreaming.
A pagan, originally with Anton LaVey's Church of Satan and later an earth-centred Germanic pagan, Haugen criticised what she viewed as patriarchal religions that inhibit people's inner nature. She published a book about Germanic spirituality and mythology, Die alten Feuer von Midgard.
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".

Personal life and death

Haugen was previously married to guitarist Tomas Haugen; they had a daughter.
She lived in the United Kingdom and Norway; 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" 1996The Winds That Sang of Midgard’s Fate, CD 1998Urd – That Which Was, MCD/Picture disc 1999On Wings of Rapture, CD single 2000Volven, CD/LP/Picture disc 2000Frigga’s Web, CD/LP 2002

Nebelhexë

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

Andréa Nebel

The Dark Side Of Dreaming, CD 2011

Aghast Manor

Gaslights, CD 2012Penetrate, CD 2013

Guest appearances