Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth

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In Memorium of Euronymous and old Mayhem.

Øystein Aarseth (April 15, 1968 - August 10, 1993) was a guitarist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem who went by the stage name Euronymous. He was founder and owner of the extreme / black metal label Deathlike Silence, as well as the Oslo specialist record shop Helvete, until his murder by fellow musician Varg Vikernes.

Biography

Before founding Mayhem, he was in L.E.G.O. and Checker Patrol with Necrobutcher. He released one demo with Checker Patrol and none with L.E.G.O., although there is a very rare video of that band. Aarseth formed the original Mayhem line up in 1983. At the time he was going by the stage name "Destructor" but on joining the band he changed his name to Euronymous, a title taken from a Hellhammer song - misspelled from Eurynomos, the Hellhammer song misspells the name this way, which is why Euronymous' name is misspelled this way. By the late 80's Aarseth had steered the band towards a satanist stance, and this was to have a profound effect on all of the then-nascent scene members. He became the focal center of the Black Metal Inner Circle. He opposed the teachings of Aleister Crowley and Anton LaVey, instead embracing a form of theistic Satanism as perceived by Christians, deliberately inverting Roman Catholic dogma and fully supporting what was found to be abhorrent and blasphemous: for instance, he was an ardent proponent of sodomy, rape and murder simply because they were "evil" acts (Aarseth used "evil" in an absolute sense, which could possibly be attributed to the standards of his English). Contrary to the beliefs many perceive to be held by most black metal musicians, Aarseth actually appreciated the existence of organised religions as a means of furthering his agenda - he sought to incite religious fanaticism with the actions of the Black Circle amongst a religiously liberal Scandinavia. Aarseth apparently did not have a problem with the following of Paganism in the Black Metal scene, however, as the majority of the bands followed this and/or embraced their ancient European/Viking roots.

He opened a record store called Helvete (Norwegian for "Hell") and started his own record label and mailorder, which he named "Deathlike Silence". When Mayhem's vocalist Dead committed suicide in April 1991, Aarseth discovered the corpse and took pictures later used for a bootleg cover, though against Aarseth's wishes. It was widely rumoured that Aarseth consumed portions of Dead's brain, but he dismissed this in an interview, although he claimed he had intended to do so. He was also believed to have made a necklace from fragments of Dead's skull. In a recent interview, Hellhammer claimed the necklace was later stolen on tour. The myth further states that black metal band Marduk still has other smaller pieces. "It" from Abruptum also claims to have fragments.

Death

In 1993, Øystein Aarseth was fatally stabbed by Varg Vikernes, who was going by the stage name "Count Grishnackh" at the time. According to official reports Aarseth received a total of twenty-three wounds: two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back. According to Vikernes, however, a majority of the wounds resulted from Aarseth falling on broken glass.

There is much speculation regarding the motive for the murder, but Vikernes has stated that the stabbing was motivated mostly by self-defense. Vikernes is currently serving a 21 year sentence at Tromsø maximum security prison in Norway for the murder of Øystein Aarseth.

After Aarseth's death Mayhem released their upcoming album "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas".

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Un_Autre_Con

I think Tesei is a pretty cool guy. he crushes commie-boners and doesn't afraid of anything.

mars 2012
Tesei

Meh, he just adored the way commies used to waste lives of others at its finest. Nothing more or less, so if somebody really believes he was an idealogical commie, one who always had boner, seeing Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Che Guevara, and then some, then oui, oui keep it fucking up.

avril 2011
morphinewaltz

he did not not knew what he was talking about, or he was up to gain attention, if somebody likes communism/communists they should move to North-Korea.

mars 2011
SeverbNR

Guess we'll never find out. Besides: which interview/documentary featured Fenriz acting like that? Lol.

décembre 2010
SeverbNR

Apparently Aarseth's fascination with communism was caused by crimes it commited. As we know communism has killed more people than nazism. He wasn't an ideological commie. He was just fascinated with genocide it caused. Pure fucking evil.

décembre 2010
morphinewaltz

Besides that, he had some great skills, De Mysteriis is a masterpiece

octobre 2010
morphinewaltz

Maybe if heroes like Euronymous instead of having a lot of money from his parents and making a nice shop in Oslo - maybe if instead of this he had been staying hours and hours in freezing winter in a crowd waiting for a fucking 11 Liter gaspackage at 8 years old in fucking communism and finding out at 8 years old how an orange looks & taste like, maybe he would have changed his mind.

octobre 2010
Malfinnien

@Tummim Finally, a black metaller who agrees with me!! This is truly a great day.

octobre 2010
Thrasher07

Fuck me Euronymous...

septembre 2010
CCXVIIIvf

He was a commie not because of his wishes about "great future for the working class" but because of such persons as Stalin and Mao Zedong. So go and kill yourself, alexstorm18.

février 2010
Craig_Metal

The bio is wrong, Hellhammer spelt Eurynomos correctly. The misspelling (Euronymous) is from the Satanic Bible.

juillet 2009
Skriva

DT торчит, вообще не в тему:)

mai 2009
TandeP

Hyll!

novembre 2008
P_A_R_O

Hate Varg, kill the fuckin' traitor! Glory to the King of all kings!!! He is the Black Metal, He will never die! War & Sodomy 'till death!!!

septembre 2008