Manimalism is a Norwegian avant-garde metal act. From their 2014/15 promo material: "Manimalism was founded by Kim Sølve and three others back in 1992. An anomaly in their own time, Manimalism was a silent contributor to the first wave of Norwegian post-black metal weirdness when names like Ved Buens Ende and Fleurety, before they became legendary, were their only contemporaries. As Taarenes Vaar, they released two demos, one in 1996 and one in 1997, both to critical acclaim from local magazines. It was hard for conformists to make sense of Manimalism; there was not much there that adhered to the expectations of the already indoctrinated black metal scene. Too bizarre to get proper recognition in their own time, too weird to be picked up by the black metal demo re-release wave a decade or so back, their two demos stand as the only evidence of their artistic merit."