{"id":7054,"date":"2019-08-10T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2019-08-09T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:40:53","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten-oystein-aarseth-euronymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten – \u00d8ystein Aarseth (Euronymous)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Euronymous was a founder of and central figure in the\u00a0early Norwegian Black Metal scene. He was a co-founder and guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band\u00a0Mayhem\u00a0and was the only constant member from the band’s formation in 1984 until his death in 1993. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal\u00a0record label\u00a0‘Deathlike Silence Productions’\u00a0and record shop Helvete in Norway.<\/p>\n

Euronymous professed to be a\u00a0Satanist\u00a0and was known for making extreme\u00a0misanthropic\u00a0statements. He presented himself as leading a militant\u00a0cult-like group known as the “Black Metal Inner Circle”. How much of this was image, bravado, bullshit or just youthful boasting to create a bigger image? We’ll never truly know.<\/p>\n

In August 1993, he was murdered by fellow musician\u00a0Varg Vikernes. Its a complicated and tangled web of who did what to whom and when and staggeringly why but ultimately several people lost their lives in all of this and today we remember one of the pivotal figures of Norweigan Black Metal Euronymous.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently the subject of the shocking and true film ‘Lords Of Chaos’\u00a0\u00d8ystein was one of the lead roles for all of the above.\u00a0 He was possibly responsible for taking what the likes of Venom were doing in the UK and taking it across the line and making the sounds of Bathory, Hellhammer more extreme more brutal more antisocial. For the pioneering groundbreaking contribution to extreme metal, we remember Euronymous and hope he rests in peace wherever that may be.<\/p>\n

The recent film ‘Lords Of Chaos’ loosely tells the story of Euronymous and his inner circle and depicts his horrific and violent demise at the hands of Varg. We reviewed the film Here<\/a>\u00a0It does depict their scene as a band of misfits bonded by dark ideals and metal.\u00a0 It was Aarseth who discovered his singer after his suicide and it was he who took the picture of his dead bloodied body and took pictures and allegedly took pieces of Deads skull. However, he was also the guy who set up his own label, set up his own record shop and pioneered a network of worldwide black metal fans (remember this is pre-internet) he also set up base in his own record store Hellvete.<\/p>\n

Its his raw and brutal songwriting that set the blueprint for many others to follow check out the riff on ‘Deathcrush’<\/p>\n