Varg Vikernes

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Q: Are you a racist?

A: Yes, but I don't hate anyone.

—What a nice person[1]

Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (born 1973) is a black metal musician, neopagan, arsonist, murderer, neo-Nazi, racialist[2], and general nutjob.

Varg is the solo member of the band Burzum, one of the more important bands of the early Norwegian black metal scene, he later gained more mainstream "fame" by burning a bunch of medieval wooden churches[3][4] and murdering[5][6] Øystein Aarseth (aka. 'Euronymous') of Mayhem, and espousing various neo-Nazi ideas. He spent 15 years in prison, and was released in 2009.

All of this made him a highly controversial figure in the metal community, and especially on subjects relating to (black) metal. One could restate Godwin's law as: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Burzum or Varg approaches one."

It should be pointed out that his music does not contain neo-Nazi lyrics or imagery. Many metalheads praise Varg for his musical ability, while disliking his personal ideology.

[edit] Various quotations

  • "some Europeans are a bit "polluted genetically", so to speak, and have brown eyes for instance, that is something that can be solved by a few generations of race hygiene" [7]. Brown eyes are evil, obviously!
  • "The horribly poor sanitary culture that came to Europe with Christianity is however not the only filth this Asian regurgitation brought to us. The mental hygiene and race hygiene practiced by the ancient Europeans also was disrupted by the introduction of Christianity.".[8]
  • "You cannot be Pagan and homosexual or even tolerate homosexuality. (...) there are other rules in the Pagan philosophy for women, though".[9]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. in an interview. What? You don't do Norwegian?
  2. Varg Vikernes in the YouTube comments section on "race"
  3. Church Arson by Black Metal Figures
  4. We Are But Slaves of the One With Horns
  5. Varg Vikernes talks about killing Euronymous
  6. Murderpedia entry
  7. [1]
  8. [2]
  9. [3]

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