Musical Style and Ideology
Nifelheim plays old-school black metal inspired by bands like Venom, Bathory, Brazilian thrash metal bands Vulcano, Holocausto and Sarcófago and Czech Master's Hammer. They are also influenced by Iron Maiden; for example, in some arrangements.
The band's lyrics treat Satanism and other topics typical for black metal. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic claimed that "While many of the Norwegian black metal bands of the early 1990s were taking themselves so seriously that heinous acts of murder, church burnings, and the like wound up stealing more headlines than their actual music, Sweden's Nifelheim were shrewdly still treating the genre's Satanic silliness with the appropriate tongue-in-cheek tone. On the surface, this was illustrated by their cartoonish album covers and traditional black metal 'uniform,' consisting of the necessary leather and spikes, bullet belts, pentagrams, and inverted crucifixes." Nifelheim rejected this characterization and cited it as a reason for ceasing to give interviews anymore.
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