Tuesday, July 8, 2008

VARG VIKERNES (BURZUM) DENIED PAROLE

This was a big story last month, and as expected, BURZUM (Norwegian black metal project) mastermind VARG VIKERNES has been denied parole.
Former MAYHEM bassist, and BURZUM mastermind VARG VIKERNES was found guilty in the early 90's (when just a teen) of arson involving church burnings, and the murder of  MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous) for which VIKERNES is serving a 21 year prison sentence.
While many hail VARG VIKERNES as an influential figure in the second wave of black metal, his attempted escape from a weekend fur low in Norwegian prison (2003) did NOT help his cause for parole, nor did his unapologetic  National Socialist ramblings in interviews.
http://www.burzum.org/


FROM BURZUM: 
"Although Varg has been denied parole, he is allowed to leave the prison for a while to walk around Tromsø [Norway; where the prison is located] and visit his family: his mother, his wife, a one-year-old son and a fifteen-year-old daughter. Varg's wife is now pregnant and they both are waiting for an addition to the family. Varg owns a small farm in Telemark (Norway), where he is planning to move as soon as he leaves the prison."

"I'm ready for society — and I have been for many years," Vikernes told the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in a brand new interview which was published today (July 6). "I have learned from my mistakes and become older. Now I just want to be together with my family. My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released."

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-