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This is supposed to be Euronymous In 2009, some kid made a two-part short film called Dunkelheit: The Tale of Varg Vikernes for his high school senior film project. Seriously. And part of me feels really bad for making fun of it; for one thing, like I said, the guy who made it was a [...]

This past December, Rolling Stone published their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time," and never mind that there wasn't enough metal on it, it really just plain old sucked. So I have to imagine that the editors of Spin were highly aware of what dangerous ground they were treading when they made their own list, [...]

It was reported Monday that Marduk guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson confirmed an elusive fact: Yes, friends of suicided Mayhem singer Per "Dead" Ohlin were given pieces of his shotgun-blasted skull and brain, and Håkansson is one of those around five people entrusted to vouchsafe this most mortal keepsake. Wow! It's way gross and morbid, but [...]

A couple of weeks back, apropos of the kinda disconcerting intensity of the excellent new album by Death Grips, we published a feature about the most terrifying people in hip hop. The idea proved mildly controversial, but we're happy to say most readers saw the feature for what it was: a lighthearted idea with utility across a bunch of genres. As such, we thought we'd follow up this week with the other genre that's been the bête noire of respectable parental types over the years: metal. As with hip hop, this is a genre that's produced its fair [...]

Well, this is a bummer; after Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, was by far the top vote-getter in a 10th anniversary contest held by Norwegian Air to adorn their jets' tailfins with a famous Norwegian face, the slain Mayhem guitarist's mug is not going to be flying the skies after all. Faced with a potentially controversial decision [...]

Last week, Norwegian Air announced an advertising campaign that would put one deceased Norwegian hero on its planes in honor of the airline's 10th anniversary. Well, it didn't take long for Øystein Aarseth, also known as Euronymous of Mayhem, to take the lead position in the poll. Even though he was winning the vote but quite a large ...

I mean, c'mon, that lil' shit had it coming. So much happened this week, it's hard to pick our top stories! Let's give it a shot though: We completed our list of The Top 25 Modern Metal Drummers. Dave Mustaine had a big week: first we learn that he's a Birther who owns a pony. [...]

This is actually a really real thing: to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their company, Norwegian Air is asking customers to vote on which famous Norwegian historical figure should be painted on the tail of their airplanes. And Øystein Aarseth, aka slain Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, is winning! We got a lot of emails over the weekend [...]

Oh internet. Sometimes you get up to some japes, don't you? Norwegian Airlines are running a ballot where the public can vote on which famous Norwegian they'd like to see painted on the tail fin of one of the airline's jumbo jets . And the internet, collectively possessing what is in effect the psyche of  14 year-old boy, has managed to get the murdered former Mayhem gutiarist, Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous) into the number two spot in the poll. Although it's unlikely that Aarseth will win the poll , [...]

In the final part of his look at the Black Metal evolution over the past 20 years, today  Tom Dare  is examining the murkier and more indistinct realms of "post"-Black Metal band, as well as those bands who might've moved beyond the boundaries of Black Metal musically, still remain within the genre in spirit, at least.... 6) Post-Black Metal The post-black metal mob (aka, the sub-sub-genre where we shove bands we don't know how else to label [...]

This nugget of news from yesterday passed us by until a few moments ago - being in London, we've been kinda concentrating on the rioting sparking up on our doorsteps - but apparently Norway's national public service broadcaster, NRK, is going to send Mayhem's longtime bassplayer, Necrobutcher, over to Arizona to be exorcised by Bob [...]

It's pretty much Winter now, right? I'm sure that according to some rule or another it technically isn't Winter till some specific point in December, but right now here in London it is cold, dark and miserable, and our local corner shop is already starting to fill up with all manner of assorted Christmas-related crap. [...]

I can honestly say I've never had a more complicated relationship with a band than I've had with Burzum. Despite an ongoing fascination and reluctant adoration of black metal, I managed to all-but-avoid the band until a year or two ago (when I got my hands on Filosofem and had to confess that mainman/only-man Varg [...]

By Ben Apatoff Until the Light Takes Us, a new documentary chronicling black metal-related crimes in Norway in the early '90s, tells a fascinating story. It's a story that deserves to be told better, and it has been, most notably in authors Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind's must-read Lords of Chaos. Unlike The Story of Anvil [...]

Earlier this month, our friends over at Terrorizer magazine released 'The Secret History of Black Metal' - promising fresh insights to metal's evilist offshoot. Hugh Platt cornered Louise Brown , Editor of Terrorizer, to get the inside scoop. Surely Black Metal’s "been done" by now? Louise Brown: "Not by me! [laughs] It’s has been done but the last book that was written on it in any depth that had a lot of press, that [...]

Metal Legacies is an ongoing memorial to extreme music pioneers who kicked the proverbial bucket way too soon. Try and pin down a description of Øystein Aarseth, AKA "Euronymous," of Norwegian black metal stalwarts Mayhem and you are likely to contract a new disease called "Renaissance Listophobia." Guitarist and founder of what many argue is the pinnacle black metal [...]

Dopo 16 anni di prigione Burzum (al secolo Varg Vikernes ) ha ottenuto la libertà sulla parola. La notizia, apparsa su di magazine locale, è subito rimbalzata online mettendo in subbuglio l'intera comunità black metal mondiale. Varg Vikernes, reo confesso dell'omicidio del chitarrista e fondatore dei Mayhem Euronymous (assassinato nella notte del 10 agosto 1993 con ben 23 coltellate), è una delle persone più oscure dell'intero panorama del black metal norvegese. Nonostante fosse incarcerato, Vikernes ha pubblicato parecchi dischi ambient/black metal e non ha mai rinnegato la sua fede pagana e [...]

So. Blabbermouth tells me that a) they are adapting the entertaining book Lords of Chaos, about the history of black metal, into a movie, and b) some kid I've never heard of, Jackson Rathbone, is going to play Varg Vikernes. And people are apparently really, really upset about this bit of casting, either because Rathbone [...]

BURZUM founder VARG VIKERNES, perhaps best known as the church-burning murderer of former MAYHEM guitarist EURONYMOUS, has been released from a Norway prison after almost 16 years behind bars. The most infamous homicidal musician since CHARLES MANSON, whose antics were famously depicted in black metal must-read Lords of Chaos, has reportedly stated, "I’m ready for [...]