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Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murder and Worse · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.
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  Speaker 2: Never has there been a more extreme form of musical rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: The Norwegian black metal the genre's founding band Mayhem, its
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  Speaker 2: sister act Bursam, and supporting cast of musicians with names
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  Speaker 2: like Necro, Butcher, Hellhammer and Dead horrified Norway with supreme
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  Speaker 2: acts of terror, including murder, suicide, church burnings, grave desecrations,
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  Speaker 2: and even cannibalism, And by the time the ashes settled,
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  Speaker 2: numerous band members would be dead or in jail, convicted
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  Speaker 2: of arson and or murder, and a new generation of
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  Speaker 2: young metal heads would find their way to Satanism through
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  Speaker 2: blastbeats and dead notes. Some of those blast beats and
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  Speaker 2: dead notes amounted to great music. The music you heard
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the show that wasn't great music.
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  Speaker 2: That was a preset loop for my melotron called Vienna
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  Speaker 2: Waltz Accordion MK two. I played you that loop because
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  Speaker 2: I can't afford the license for Jump by Criss Cross.
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  Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of
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  Speaker 2: prepubescent backward pant Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that
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  Speaker 2: was the number one song in America On June sixth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two, and that was the day that Varg
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  Speaker 2: Vikernes aka Count Grishnak, mastermind behind the black metal band
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  Speaker 2: Bursam and one time bass player from Mayhem, set off
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  Speaker 2: a string of church burnings and other acts of satanic
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  Speaker 2: rebellion that would terrorize in otherwise peaceful nation. On this episode,
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  Speaker 2: Waltzing Viennese accordions, awkward pantschees, Mayhem Satanic rebellion, and Count Rishnani,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgrace Lam.
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  Speaker 3: When Bo Didley released his.
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  Speaker 2: Song who Do You Love in nineteen fifty six, it
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  Speaker 2: was heard by a country reeling in the shockwaves of
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  Speaker 2: rock and roll. Bo sang about walking for miles on
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  Speaker 2: barbed wire, cobra snakes used for neckties, a house made
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  Speaker 2: from rattlesnake hide, a chimney made from human skulls. Parents, teachers,
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  Speaker 2: and squares everywhere warned of the new music's influence on
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  Speaker 2: the clean cut youth of Eisenhower's postwar andformist America. Surely
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  Speaker 2: this rebellious sounding noise would cause kids to grow their hair, smoke, reefer,
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  Speaker 2: get pregnant, worship satan, and die. And the squares were right.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened, and a decade later, kids were
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  Speaker 2: uniformly long haired, smoking copious amounts of dope, and taking
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  Speaker 2: the pill. By nineteen sixty nine and into the seventies,
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  Speaker 2: they were sympathizing with the devil at Altamont and burning
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  Speaker 2: their bras in Times Square, and in the nineteen eighties, cocaine,
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  Speaker 2: crack and aides would claim countless amounts of young lives. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety one, a heavy metal musician from Norway
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  Speaker 2: would go Bo Diddley one better. It wouldn't be a
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  Speaker 2: chimney he'd make out of a human skull. It would
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  Speaker 2: be a necklace made out of the skull of his
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  Speaker 2: recently deceased friend and bandmate. Bo Diddley's lyrics sounds tame now,
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  Speaker 2: but it only took a mere thirty five years before
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  Speaker 2: its influence was brought to life in horrific fashion. Rebellion
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  Speaker 2: is metastatic. One general's rebellion is another generation's norm. The
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  Speaker 2: line in the sand of what is and isn't acceptable
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  Speaker 2: gets redrawn with each new generation. Bo Didley was a
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  Speaker 2: descendant of bluesman Robert Johnson, who hack rock journalists will
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  Speaker 2: eagerly tell Us sold his soul to the Devil and
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  Speaker 2: Didley's voodoo esque braggadocio went on to inspire countless classic rockers,
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  Speaker 2: including Satanic sympathizers Led Zeppelin, whose unabashed admiration for known
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  Speaker 2: Satanist Alistair Crowley and melding of steroidal delta blues made
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  Speaker 2: it rain royalty checks, thus inspiring another band from England
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  Speaker 2: named Venom, to take it one step further to full
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  Speaker 2: on devil worship with song titles like in League with Satan,
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  Speaker 2: Leave Me in Hell in a Thousand Days in Sodom.
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  Speaker 2: Venom then went on to influence an entirely new generation
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  Speaker 2: of metal bands like Metallic, Slayer and Testament, until finally
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  Speaker 2: inspiring a new subgenre of heavy metal called black metal.
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  Speaker 2: Black metal was started by Norwegian teenagers unable to stand
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  Speaker 2: the strains of conformity, boredom, anonymity, and long dark winters. Norway,
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  Speaker 2: a small constitutional monarchy, went through a brief Viking phase
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  Speaker 2: during its adolescence, flirted with fascism in young adulthood, and
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  Speaker 2: eventually settled lazily into a type of democratic socialism during
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  Speaker 2: middle age. The country, though small, is one of the
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  Speaker 2: world's richest. The state takes care of its own. Government
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  Speaker 2: bureaucracy employs thirty percent of the nation. Disability pensions for
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  Speaker 2: the unemployed are easy to come by. There isn't a
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  Speaker 2: lot of poverty, not a lot of income disparity. The
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  Speaker 2: crime rate is low, and punishments for the crimes that
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  Speaker 2: do get committed arlenient. Historically, there's not a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get pissed off about because there's not a lot that
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  Speaker 2: goes on in Norway. The country's greatest cultural export is
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  Speaker 2: frozen fish. Norway is kind of like Europe's answer to
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  Speaker 2: an American flyover state.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm trying to say is.
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  Speaker 2: That if you're a Norwegian teenager, you're probably bored, and
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  Speaker 2: even worse than that, you're probably bored without a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot to rebel against. How does the saying go idle
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  Speaker 2: hands in the Devil's workshop without overt social injustice. Norwegian
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  Speaker 2: teenagers look to their heritage for a target to rebel against.
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  Speaker 2: Inspired by Venom, Bathory and a growing group of Satanic
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  Speaker 2: inspired heavy metal bands in the nineteen eighties, Norwegian teenagers
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  Speaker 2: saw it in their countries Christian heritage or reason to
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  Speaker 2: rebel Christian societies preach. More so, worshiping Satan is just
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  Speaker 2: about the strongest form of rebellion one can take. Mix
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  Speaker 2: in nihilism, nazism, ancient Norse, Viking mythology, paganism, blistering blast
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  Speaker 2: beats and speaker shredding power chords, and you've got a
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  Speaker 2: strong elixir of teenage angst. Black metal became a thing
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  Speaker 2: on August sixteenth, nineteen eighty seven, with the release of
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  Speaker 2: the Norwegian band Mayhem's.
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  Speaker 3: Death Crush demo.
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  Speaker 2: Critics point to Mayhem's officially released first full length album,
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  Speaker 2: dam the Stereos de Satanas as black metal's genre defining record,
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  Speaker 2: but it has none of the charm of the Death
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  Speaker 2: Crush demo from seven years earlier. Death Crush sounds less
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  Speaker 2: like a band trying to make something and more like
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of extremely pent up kids bashing shit around
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  Speaker 2: in their basement in front of blown out microphones that
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  Speaker 2: just happened to be pointed toward their half broken amplifiers.
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  Speaker 3: Mayhem's demo, with.
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  Speaker 2: Its low five, high energy metal recording, it doesn't sound
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  Speaker 2: like anything that came before it. It sounds bleak and primitive.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds cold. Mayhem's Death Crush is inspired and inspiring.
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  Speaker 2: It was the landmark black metal recording that would compel
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  Speaker 2: hordes of bands to come. But before the dark thrones
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  Speaker 2: and Gorgorads of the world, a polite and unassuming Swedish
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  Speaker 2: teenager would fully commit himself to Mayhem's satanic nihilism, so
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  Speaker 2: fully that he would become the genre's first casualty, its
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  Speaker 2: first martyr, and its first sign of the extreme evil
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  Speaker 2: to come. Pair Olan was from Sweden. He moved to
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  Speaker 2: Norway at the age of nineteen to sing in the
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  Speaker 2: band Mayhem. He wasn't the band's original singer, but he
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  Speaker 2: was by far its most legendary. By all accounts, Olan
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  Speaker 2: was a kind and sensitive kid, albeit with a very
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  Speaker 2: dark side. Olan was obsessed with death, with dying. He
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  Speaker 2: claimed he'd wanted to die ever since he was three
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  Speaker 2: years old. His obsession with death and black metal led
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  Speaker 2: him to change his name to Dead, and Dead fully
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  Speaker 2: committed to the role in a way that would make
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  Speaker 2: most method actors feel inadequate. To prepare for Mayhem gigs,
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  Speaker 2: Dead would bury his clothes in the ground so that
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  Speaker 2: when he eventually wore them on stage, they'd have the
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  Speaker 2: stench of the earth. On them, just as a corpse would.
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  Speaker 2: Before shows, he'd walk around inhaling the rotting stench of
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  Speaker 2: a dead bird. He'd carried around with him in a
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  Speaker 2: bag because he wanted the smell of death in his nostrils.
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  Speaker 2: When he performed on stage, Dead would cut himself, delsi,
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  Speaker 2: himself and bandmates and the audience with his blood. He
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  Speaker 2: wore all black, and like most metal heads, he had
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  Speaker 2: a taste for denim, leather, studs, spikes. He painted his
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  Speaker 2: face white and black in the area around his eyes
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  Speaker 2: to look more like a corpse, not in a theatrical
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  Speaker 2: Alice Cooper or Kiss way, but in a scary as
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  Speaker 2: all Hallow's Eve way. With Dead fronting Mayhem, the band's
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  Speaker 2: reputation and influence grew in Norway's black metal scene grew wings.
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  Speaker 2: Its pilot was Mayhem's founding guitarist Oysten Arseth. Arseeth was
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, the charismatic leader of the Norwegian black
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  Speaker 2: metal scene before founding Mayhem. In Deathlike Silence Productions, the
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  Speaker 2: record label that released Mayhem's albums, Arisith changed his name
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  Speaker 2: to Uronymous to complete his transformation from polite, upper middle
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  Speaker 2: class Norwegian boy into full blown black metal god Uronymous
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  Speaker 2: and Dead were joined at the hip. There were not
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  Speaker 2: only bandmates, there were also roommates. They listened to Motorhead
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  Speaker 2: and Bathory Records, talk politics, disc poser commercial metal bands
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  Speaker 2: like Death Angel and Napalm. Death implotted their band and
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  Speaker 2: their scenes rise to infamy the hopes and Dreams portion
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  Speaker 2: of their story, though it didn't last. Dead became withdrawn.
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  Speaker 2: He was likely clinically depressed, but this was a time,
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  Speaker 2: a place, and a scene where such self awareness was
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  Speaker 2: not allowed.
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  Speaker 3: Some believe that Dead.
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  Speaker 2: Suffered from what is known as Cotter delusion, a rare
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  Speaker 2: mental illness in which the affected person believes that they
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  Speaker 2: are dead, that they are actually a walking, future eying corpse.
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  Speaker 2: This illness manifests after a life threatening trauma like the
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  Speaker 2: beating Dead took as a schoolboy, where he ended up
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  Speaker 2: in the hospital with a ruptured spleen, an experience that,
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  Speaker 2: it has been reported, left him clinically dead for a
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  Speaker 2: period of time. Whatever the reason, his obsession with death
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  Speaker 2: became all consuming. He got his hands on some snuff
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  Speaker 2: films on vhs. He watched them, and then he watched
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  Speaker 2: them again and again and again. He sat alone in
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  Speaker 2: his room and he cut himself. He stopped eating in
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  Speaker 2: an effort to obtain starving wounds. He told friends he
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  Speaker 2: believed that his blood had frozen in his veins, and
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  Speaker 2: that he was a non human and didn't belong on earth,
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  Speaker 2: that he died as a child and longed for the
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  Speaker 2: deep sleep he'd experienced for a brief period as a boy.
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  Speaker 2: On April eighth, nineteen ninety one, pair Ollen aka Dead,
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  Speaker 2: singer of Mayhem, the world's pre eminent black metal band,
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  Speaker 2: sat down on his sofa and began.
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  Speaker 3: To write a note.
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  Speaker 2: Its first word said, excuse all the blood. When authorities
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  Speaker 2: found the note, Dead's blood was indeed in need of
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  Speaker 2: an excuse.
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  Speaker 3: It was everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Dead had slit his wrists, then he slit his own throat,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow, after all of that, managed to fire off
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  Speaker 2: a shot from a shotgun directly into his forehead. Dead
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  Speaker 2: was dead at twenty two years old. Eronymous discovered Dead's body,
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  Speaker 2: and he assessed the situation with the cold dispassion of
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  Speaker 2: a grizzled homicide detective.
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  Speaker 3: And then he moved fast.
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  Speaker 2: Not to call authorities or family, but instead he moved
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  Speaker 2: quickly out the door and down the street to purchase
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  Speaker 2: a camera. I tailed it back to the apartment where
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  Speaker 2: Dead's exploded skull and bloodied body lie in the early
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  Speaker 2: stages of rigor mortis, and.
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  Speaker 3: Began taking pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Eronymus knew a good album cover when he saw one.
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  Speaker 2: He then began collecting bits of his friend's skull and brain.
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  Speaker 2: The shirds from the skull would make for great necklaces,
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  Speaker 2: and the bits of brain Eronymous would later boil down
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  Speaker 2: into a stew and consume so that he could claim
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  Speaker 2: the vaunted status of cannibal.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see those pussies.
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  Speaker 2: From Napon Death eat some brains, fucking posers.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this word word word.
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  Speaker 2: Dead's grizzly suicide would be immortalized on the cover of
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  Speaker 2: Mayhem's nineteen ninety five live bootleg Dawn of the Black Hearts.
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  Speaker 2: The photo is arresting. It's the type of thing you
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  Speaker 2: wish you could unsee, but you can't. The irony, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is that this is a live album with a real
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  Speaker 2: life picture.
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  Speaker 3: Of a dead guy named Dead on the cover.
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  Speaker 2: The album's closing track is one of Mayhem's first compositions,
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  Speaker 2: Pure Fucking Armageddon and Pure Fucking Armageddon was exactly what
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  Speaker 2: the black metal scene was about to unleash on to Norway.
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  Speaker 2: To be from Norway in the early nineties and to
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  Speaker 2: be truly in the black metal it meant that you
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  Speaker 2: had to be truly evil, the type of evil that
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  Speaker 2: went way beyond the B grade horror movie lyrics from
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  Speaker 2: Black Sabbath, the type of evil that was much scarier
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  Speaker 2: than some long haired skateboarders and baggy shorts and painters
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  Speaker 2: caps listening to Anthrax and crushing cans of Meister Brown
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  Speaker 2: on a school night. To be truly black metal meant
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  Speaker 2: you had to live for death. You praise Satan, not
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  Speaker 2: because you really believed in Satan, but because it was
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  Speaker 2: so fucking subversive to believe in Satan. You declared war
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  Speaker 2: on society in all things moral, particularly Christianity. You listened
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  Speaker 2: to and made raw, primitive sounding heavy metal. You had
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  Speaker 2: no patience for poser metal bands who didn't take death
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  Speaker 2: and destruction seriously. The goal for Norwegian black metal heads
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  Speaker 2: was to be truly evil, to completely subvert democratic morality,
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  Speaker 2: and to banish poser metal bands back to the punk
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  Speaker 2: rock ghettos.
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  Speaker 3: They crawled out of Uronymous and the scene.
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  Speaker 2: He lorded over had a new charismatic personality, varg Viganus
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  Speaker 2: aka Count Grishnak, the one man engine behind the new
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  Speaker 2: exciting black metal band Bursm. Uronymous agreed to release Bursm's
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  Speaker 2: records on his Deathlike Silence Productions label, and Vargu, through
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  Speaker 2: the strength of his Manson esque gaze and the excitement
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  Speaker 2: of his fresh new band, quickly ascended to an unofficial
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  Speaker 2: leadership role in the fast growing scene that now included
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  Speaker 2: a flock of new bands like Darkthrone, Immortal and Enslaved.
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  Speaker 2: Varg was committed to the cause as Uranomous and Dead
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  Speaker 2: before him, but Varg's commitment infused black metal Satanism with
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  Speaker 2: an even more toxic and racist ethno nationalism. Vargu believed
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  Speaker 2: Christianity had purged Norway of its heritage by casting aside
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  Speaker 2: Norse tradition. He took this shit personally. Varg was out
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  Speaker 2: for revenge against Christians, blacks, homosexuals, posers, and basically anyone
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  Speaker 2: who wasn't a nihilistic blue eyed pagan metal head. Uranimus's
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  Speaker 2: record shop Helvete, which in Norwegian translates to Hell, served
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  Speaker 2: as a meeting place for himself vargu and other scenisters,
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  Speaker 2: a group that would later be called the Black Surf.
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  Speaker 2: But it was outside a morbid angel show in Oslo
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  Speaker 2: where plans came together to bring Norway to its knees
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  Speaker 2: and fear. Shortly after, graves were found vandalized, the home
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  Speaker 2: of Christopher Johnson, frontman for so called poser death metal
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  Speaker 2: band Theryon, had been set on fire. A note was
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  Speaker 2: stuck to his door with a knife. It read the
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  Speaker 2: count was here and he will come back a homosexual
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  Speaker 2: man and Lilly Hammer was killed, randomly, stabbed over thirty
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  Speaker 2: times and left to bleed out in the woods behind
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  Speaker 2: Olympic Park.
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  Speaker 3: And then the fire started.
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  Speaker 2: The first church to go is the Phantos Stave Church,
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  Speaker 2: one of Norway's historical treasures. It made national headlines, next
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  Speaker 2: the Revheim Church, then the home in Colon.
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  Speaker 3: Chapel and Armoya Church.
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  Speaker 2: Satanic symbols started showing up around the sites of the burnings.
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  Speaker 2: Norwegians had no idea what was happening. The press covered
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  Speaker 2: the Arson's breathless Sea, and as the coverage expanded, more
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  Speaker 2: churches burned. The black metal rebellion was on. Norwegian black
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  Speaker 2: metal heads were literally carrying a torch for their scene,
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  Speaker 2: and black Metal was no B grade horror flick. It
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  Speaker 2: was full on evil, real evil, a step further than
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  Speaker 2: any metal scene had gone before. Band leaders became heads
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  Speaker 2: of arson squads, continuously trying to.
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  Speaker 3: Outdo one another.
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  Speaker 2: More churches burned, the Scold Church, the Hauajeto Church, the
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  Speaker 2: Assane Church, the Sarpsburg Church. That one took the life
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  Speaker 2: of a firefighter. Over thirty churches had been set ablaze,
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  Speaker 2: The press blamed, and until now unknown unnamed, unimaginable.
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  Speaker 3: Clan of Satanists.
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  Speaker 2: There were, after all, Satanic symbols discovered at the burn seas,
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  Speaker 2: and who else would be desecrating graves? But authorities were
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  Speaker 2: slow to pounds on the Satanist's theory. Some held out
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  Speaker 2: hope that all of the fires and the other assorted
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  Speaker 2: crimes were all just a big accidental coincidence. Bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: nobody had a clue who was behind the terror. Fear
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  Speaker 2: was rampant, and there was no real boogeyman in sight,
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  Speaker 2: not until January nineteen ninety three, anyway. That's when varg
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  Speaker 2: Viganists decided he had had enough with the rumors surrounding
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  Speaker 2: who was behind the church burnings. The press blindly milling
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  Speaker 2: about for a nameless group of Satanists was one thing,
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  Speaker 2: but back at Helvete, the Black Circle seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: giving uronomous way too much credit for the church burnings
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  Speaker 2: when Varg knew the real deal. It was he, Varg Vicinus,
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  Speaker 2: Count Grishnach, whose spearheaded the arson effort. It was he
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  Speaker 2: who was putting the black metal scene onto the international
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  Speaker 2: map and onto the front page a karaying magazine. Varg
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  Speaker 2: had had enough. He decided to try to cheekily set
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  Speaker 2: the record straight by giving an interview to a daily newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: In it, he claimed he knew who burned the churches
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  Speaker 2: and who murdered the homosexual man in lily Hammer. It
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  Speaker 2: took local police about five minutes to identify Varg with
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  Speaker 2: his pension. For being photographed with torches, knives, chainmail and
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  Speaker 2: long hair, it was easy for them to mark them
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  Speaker 2: as a person of interest, and it wasn't long before
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  Speaker 2: they were onto the entire scene, and within no time
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  Speaker 2: authorities had found a Bursen flyer promoting the band's new album,
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  Speaker 2: aptly titled Ashes On It, there was an image depicting
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  Speaker 2: the burning of Van Tofft's Stave Church. The flyer also
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  Speaker 2: had on it Varg's adres us. For all his high
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  Speaker 2: minded Norris Viking neo racist, pseudo intellectual horseshit, the count
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  Speaker 2: sure seemed like a fucking moron. The police showed up
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  Speaker 2: at the address on the flyer and found him hold
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  Speaker 2: up with enough explosives to blast them all to hell
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  Speaker 2: and back. He was taking into custody before we could
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  Speaker 2: use them to blow up a cathedral and celebration of
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  Speaker 2: Mayhem's next album release.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's how you throw a record release party.
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  Speaker 2: Remarkably, Varg was released for lack of evidence. He was
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  Speaker 2: now the BMOC of black metal. His ego grew, so
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  Speaker 2: did his animosity for his friend Eronymous, who's dabbling in cannibalism. Notwithstanding,
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  Speaker 2: Varg believed Uronomist wasn't truly evil. He thought he was
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  Speaker 2: soft and believed he was a closet homosexual. Furthermore, Uronomus
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  Speaker 2: didn't share Varg's fascist leanings. Varg was a devoted follower
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  Speaker 2: of Stalin and of Hitler's SS. Uronymus, despite his black
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  Speaker 2: metal identity, was a socialist who collected government welfare and
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  Speaker 2: still took money from his parents to help get by.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Further complicating their relationship, Eronymus owed varg money for unpaid
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  Speaker 2: burst and royalties, then heard a rumor that Uronomus was
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  Speaker 2: planning on killing him, not just murdering him, but kidnapping him,
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  Speaker 2: torturing him, filming the torture, and then killing him on film.
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  Speaker 2: The circumstances around dead suicide, the rumors of Uronomus's cannibalism,
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  Speaker 2: the church burnings, grave desecrations, rumored death of a homosexual
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  Speaker 2: man at the hands of someone in the scene, and
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  Speaker 2: the harassment of other poser metal bands all caused Mayhem's
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  Speaker 2: reputation to wring out worldwide. But a snuff film showing
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  Speaker 2: the torture and murder of one of the scene's biggest
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  Speaker 2: stars that would truly be something true evil. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: Dave Mustang rub about James Hetfield on film Mega Death
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  Speaker 2: more like Mega Pussies. It all made sense to Vargu.
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  Speaker 2: Uronymous was an insecure egomaniac who felt threatened by Varg's
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  Speaker 2: growing rep and practically Uronymus owed him money, so murdering
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  Speaker 2: him was.
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  Speaker 3: A handyway to erase a debt.
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  Speaker 2: Varg was enraged he wasn't gonna let a brown eyed socialist,
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  Speaker 2: closet homosexual who owed him money get over on him.
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  Speaker 2: The Uronymous had to be confronted and fasten. If Arg
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  Speaker 2: turned up at Uronymus's apartment unannounced at three in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: it was under the guise of signing his burst some
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  Speaker 2: record contract. This was something that Uronomous, despite the time
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  Speaker 2: of night, was very keen on making happen. Bursham was
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  Speaker 2: one of his record label's moneymakers. Without a signed contract,
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  Speaker 2: there were no royalties to collect. He buzzed varga in
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  Speaker 2: to let him up to his fourth floor apartment. It
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  Speaker 2: would prove to be a crucial mistake. Varg wasn't there
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  Speaker 2: to sign any papers. He was there to find out
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  Speaker 2: what the fuck was going on and to put an
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  Speaker 2: end to this beef one way or another. Uronymus opened
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  Speaker 2: the door in his underwear, and when Varg asked him
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  Speaker 2: about his plans to murder him, Uronomus attacked Varg kicked
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  Speaker 2: him in the chest. Varg was stunned. He grabbed Uonymus
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  Speaker 2: and threw him to the floor. Uronomus quickly got to
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  Speaker 2: his feet and ran toward the kitchen. Varg assumed to
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  Speaker 2: grab a knife or some other sort of weapon, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the shotgun that dead shot himself with. Varg knew Uronymius
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  Speaker 2: kept it handy. The count was not afraid, he was determined.
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  Speaker 2: He grabbed his own knife and took off after Uronymous,
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  Speaker 2: catching up to him before you could find a weapon,
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  Speaker 2: and Varg stabbed him, but Uronomists managed to keep moving
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  Speaker 2: back toward the door and out of the apartment. He
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  Speaker 2: broke down the hallway, screaming for help, bringing as many
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  Speaker 2: doorbells as he could along the way.
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  Speaker 3: Varg was hot on his trail, close enough to.
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  Speaker 2: Continue stabbing him all the way down the stairwell. Uronomist
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  Speaker 2: could do little, but he somehow stayed on his feet.
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  Speaker 2: His momentum kept hurtling him down the stairs, his adrenaline
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  Speaker 2: kept the screams for help coming at a piercing volume.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: The horrific sounds kept the neighbors terrified and paralyzed in
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  Speaker 2: their apartments, and Varg's hate kept the stabbings coming, twenty
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  Speaker 2: two of them, until.
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  Speaker 3: Uronymous could run no more.
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  Speaker 2: His momentum slow, he staggered to a wobbling standstill for
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a second or two before falling to his knees, bloodied
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  Speaker 2: and Gasping for breath, he looked up to face his murderer,
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  Speaker 2: his one time friend and comrade in arms, var Vicanus,
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  Speaker 2: who then took his knife in both of his hands,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: raised it above his head and silently called upon the
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  Speaker 2: great Norse gods of thunder, and with the pure Viking
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  Speaker 2: rage that was his lineage, Varg brought the knife down
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  Speaker 2: straight into the skull of Euronymus.
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  Speaker 3: He died instantly. Varg was arrested nine days later.
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  Speaker 2: An informant gave authorities all they needed on Varg for
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the killing of Uronymus and the church burnings. Another member
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of the scene, Bard faust Ethian, drummer for the black
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: metal band Emperor, admitted to the murderer of the homosexual
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  Speaker 2: man in Lillehammer's Olympic Park. He claimed he just wanted
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to see what killing.
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  Speaker 3: A man felt like.
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  Speaker 2: He got eight years for killing a man in cold
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  Speaker 2: blood for no reason other than that the.
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  Speaker 3: Man was gay.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go, Norway, pure evil with little consequence. Varg
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  Speaker 2: pled innocent to all the charges and turned his trial
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  Speaker 2: into a side show that no doubt made Charlie Manson proud,
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  Speaker 2: playing the role of Satanists, neo fascist and pagan warlord
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: at the rebellious shoe fit varg Warret and the press.
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  Speaker 3: They ate it all up.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly, making Count Grishnach Norway's public enemy number one. Varg
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Vicanus was convicted for arson for three of the thirty
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  Speaker 2: plus church burnings, attempted arson of a fourth, possession of
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: illegal explosives, and the.
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  Speaker 3: Murder of Uronymous.
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  Speaker 2: He was sentenced to twenty one years in prison, which
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: unbelievably is the maximum penalty allowed in Norway for murder
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: in arson. Amazing, pure evil with little consequence. Again, way
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: to go Norway. Norwegian black metal is bigger than ever.
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  Speaker 2: Second generation bands like gorgor Rath have taken the genre
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  Speaker 2: far beyond the cold, dark Norwegian forest to every corner
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  Speaker 2: of the world. The horrors carried out by Dead Uronymous,
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  Speaker 2: vargu and others from the original black metal scene built
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: a notorious reputation for the genre to attract new generations
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  Speaker 2: of followers. With Mayhem still sells records and still sells
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  Speaker 2: out shows.
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  Speaker 3: Sure it's with one original.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Member and yeah there shows these days have more in
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: common with a Vegas review than the Dawn of the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Black Heart's bootleg. But my point is that despite or
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: possibly because of, the band's horrific acts, there is a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: large and active international audience from Norwegian black metal, a
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: genre of music that was built on a foundation of murder, arson, cannibalism,
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  Speaker 2: and what can only be described as the most extreme
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  Speaker 2: form of musical rebellion to ever exist.
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  Speaker 3: He's a bad down man,