People Murdered in Norway - Lillehammer Affair, Euronymous, Murder of Benjamin Hermansen, Per Bergersen, Jan Krogh Jensen (Paperback)

Chapters: Lillehammer Affair, Euronymous, Murder of Benjamin Hermansen, Per Bergersen, Jan Krogh Jensen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oystein Aarseth (March 22, 1968 August 10, 1993), who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete, until his murder by fellow musician Varg Vikernes. He is argued to be the founder of modern black metal. Aarseth formed the original Mayhem line up in 1984. At the time he was going by the stage name "Destructor" but on joining the band he changed his name to Euronymous, derived from the demon Eurynomos. He opened a record store called Helvete (Norwegian for "Hell") and started his own record label and mailorder, which he named Deathlike Silence Productions. In late January 1993, Varg Vikernes of Burzum was interviewed by a journalist from Bergens Tidende. Vikernes had allegedly requested the interview in order to gain publicity for the black metal scene and for Aarseth's record label Deathlike Silence Productions. However, the interview led to a police investigation and Vikernes was put under arrest for a week. Aarseth decided to close his record store due to this negative attention. On 10 August 1993, Vikernes and Snorre Ruch travelled from Bergen to Aarseths apartment in Oslo. Upon their arrival a confrontation began, which ended when Vikernes fatally stabbed Aarseth. His body was found outside the apartment with twenty-three cut wounds two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back. It has been speculated that the murder was the result of a power struggle, a financial dispute over Burzum records, or an attempt at "out doing" the sta...http: //booksllc.net/?id=64551