Murder of Euronymous

In August 1993, the same month he was released his second album, Varg Vikernes traveled at night by car from the city of Bergen to Oslo, accompanied by another boy named Snorre Ruch, founder of Thorns. According to Vikernes, he had learned from a mutual friend that Euronymous was planning to kill him, or at least he had told several people that would like to kill him and torture him. At that time had long hated each other and trying to get his third Vikernes drive through another label so that this time Euronymous would not be in charge of production. In addition Euronymous had been arrested for hurting some guys with a bottle, so Vikernes took the threat seriously. It did not feel intimidated and to show that he feared he decided to go to him at his home to confront him.According to Vikernes, when he got there he called on the phone, said who he was and gave him the excuse that he wanted to talk about a contract, Snorre Ruch was in the street. Once inside your home, when they were face to face, Euronymous was weak and drugged went to the kitchen for a knife, being drugged, he tried unsuccessfully to strike a blow but Varg ducked and took the gun from his hand, instantly , ran through the building, downstairs, Varg caught him and killed him. Varg's escape was desperate at this point, while the police almost stopped the car on one occasion while returning to Bergen. Days earlier, when Varg had accused of burning churches, Euronymous had said: - "will soon be recognized for something bigger. " Without knowing it had predicted his death. In his indictment for murder also included the burning of several centuries-old Norwegian churches.