(22 March 1968 – 10 August 1993) Euronymous, born as Øystein Aarseth, was a well known musician in Norway’s Black Metal scene. He was the co-founder and guitar player of the Black Metal band, Mayhem. He was the founder and owner of a record label, Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete. Some say Euronymous was the central figure of the early Black Metal scene. He was the one who defined it, stating any Metal music that is Satanic is Black Metal. Euronymous was born on March 22, 1968 in Egersund, Norway. He formed Mayhem in 1984, along with bassist Jørn ”Necrobutcher” Stubberud. In 1991, Euronymous took Varg Vikernes, who was currently doing a solo project – Burzum, under his wing, and had him play bass for Mayhem. Later this would become a decision that would cost him his life. Euronymous and Varg got along well at first. There was a contrast between them, and the tension between them grew more and more each day. Some say Euronymous was not a very likable man. He even stated himself that he is against individualism, compassion, peace, happiness and fun and he aims to spread hatred, sorrow and evil and states there is “NOTHING which is too sick, evil or perverted.” Euronymous was always going out of his way to be as extreme and offensive as possible because he is a Theistic Satanist. When vocalist Dead killed himself, Euronymous took a photo of the blood ridden corpse, and in an attempt to be as extreme as he talked about, ate his brains and made necklaces out his skull. Euronymous then called Necrobutcher and said to him “Dead has done something really cool! He killed himself!” And then said he had photos of it. Necrobutcher was disgusted. He requested for him to destroy the pictures and angrily told him to not exploit his death. This ended a lot of friendships for Euronymous. His friends were disgusted by his behavior about Dead’s suicide and wanted nothing to do with him. Euronymous has also made a lot of later Mayhem band members leave the band after receiving death threats from him. What made Varg Vikernes begin to despise Euronymous, was when his band Burzum released the debut album on Deathlike Silence Records (Euronymous’ label), Euronymous could not afford to print them all off himself, so he loaned the money off Varg. When all the albums were all sold, he used the money to pay for his own bills, rather than paying him back the money that Varg has earned selling his records. In an attempt to give Metal music some attention, and therefore, give his shop Helvete some business, he arranged an anonymous interview with Varg for a newspaper. Varg exaggerated a lot and the next day got arrested because of it. Instead of Euronymous taking advantage of the situation, he listened to his parents who told him to close the shop because they did not like the negative attention. A large amount of people drove all the way to Helvete only to find a closed shop. This angered Varg. People in the Black Metal community discovered that Euronymous was not as extreme as he made himself out to be. Euronymous blamed Varg and began to plot against his life.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:07:23 +0000
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