"To Hell And Back Again," by Kristian Vikernes (2024)

Started by prime, Jan 16, 2024, 11:46 AM

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prime

QuoteThere are many areas of interest in not just the black metal story, and not just the Burzum story, but the Varg Vikernes story. Like it or not, he is a cultural signpost, both for embracing Darwinistic politics and for his uncompromising lack of tolerance for peer pressure.

https://www.deathmetal.org/books/varg-vikernes-to-hell-and-back-again-my-black-metal-story-2024/

Someone just uploaded the PDF on Telegram so it's going to be out there soon.

https://1lib.sk/s/varg%20vikernes

antichrist

It's funny how widely he is resented, probably for political reasons.
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prime

Having read it a couple times now, I can see how much of a psychological crisis going to jail for two decades is especially on a guy like Vikernes who could have created so much in that time. He really got scapegoated for all of what black metal did in Norway, which itself was a scapegoat for having noticed the massive failure of liberal democracy.

antichrist

The parts I found convincing: his description of his music, his influences, and his personal life.

What I found unconvincing: his weird narrative of killing Euronymous and accidentally having a knife, his thinking the courts were not going to sodomize him, his denial of burning Jewish temples in Norway.
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