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

[prime]

There 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.

[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.