Author Håvard Rem, the author of a leading book on TNBM called Infødte skrik (“Native calls”), described the phenomenon (black metal in Norway) to Dagens Næringsliv as “a global awakening that gets the children of the ‘68ers to search for their roots from pre-colonial and pre-Christian times." Rem suggests that "young people all over the world identify with this search," and explained that where young Norwegian boys might find “Norse religion and Odin” in their cultural roots, “in Asia, Vedic metal has arisen with TNBM as its inspiration.”