Biggest Douchebags in Metal

The Top Ten
1 Varg Vikernes Louis Cachet, (born Kristian Vikernes) more popularly known as Varg Vikernes, is a Norwegian musician, writer, and a convicted murderer and arsonist. He is known as the frontman of the one-man band Burzum (named after a word in the Black Speech, which is a fictional language in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings), which is considered one of the most influential bands in black metal history. He's also known for murdering Mayhem guitarist Euronymous and was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 1994.

Varg is pure evil. People like him deserve to rot in hell. Imagine defending this scumbag.

Watch his youtube channel and tell me if he is evil

Euronymous is way worse... honestly Varg has changed into a decent person

2 Euronymous Øystein Aarseth (1968-1993), who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a Norwegian guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. Euronymous was stabbed to death by band member Varg Vikernes in August 1993. Euronymous was a controversial figure in black metal. He claimed to be a theistic satanist and was against individualism, compassion, peace, happiness and fun. He also claimed that he wanted to spread sorrow, hatred and evil. Another controversial thing he did was that he took pictures of Dead's corpse and used one of them for the front cover of Mayhem's live album Dawm of the Black Hearts. He stated that Dead's suicide was used to foster Mayhem's evil image.

well, he definitely came off as a rather selfish individual and a major edgelord who desperately wanted attention. apparently he was a nice person when the band first started and I honestly don't think that he deserved death but I guess that's what taking your "evil image" too seriously can do to you...

I know he was a murder victim, but this guy actually condoned hatred and evil. If that's not being a douchebag then I don't know what is.

I don't care if he was a murder victim. He was still a creepy weirdo who was not right in the head.

3 Lars Ulrich Lars Ulrich is a Danish drummer and one of the founding members of the American thrash metal band Metallica.
4 Gaahl Kristian Eivind Espedal, better known by his stage name Gaahl, is a Norwegian vocalist and artist. He is best known as the former frontman of Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth. He is also the founder and frontman of Trelldom and Gaahlskagg.

Gotta love how the top three are all black metal musicians.

5 Geoff Tate Geoff Tate is a German-born American singer and musician who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche.

How is Geoff Tate a douchebag?! Also how is he above Chris Barnes and Glenn Benton?!

6 Dave Mustaine David Scott "Dave" Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. Mustaine is best known as a pioneer in Thrash Metal, being the former lead guitarist of Metallica before his dismissal in 1983, leading to finding and becoming the front man of his own band Megadeth shortly after.

Didn't agree to play with talented bands like Dissection and Rotting Christ, and they got kicked off for Megadeth to play..
What an egoistic douche he is...

He may be a douche, but he was really attractive back in the day.

He's a douche, but he's our douche

7 Marilyn Manson Brian Hugh Warner, better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, painter, multimedia artist, author, and former music journalist.
8 Chris Barnes Chris Barnes is an American musician mainly noted for his deep-throat vocals, explicitly violent lyrics. Barnes was a founding member of Cannibal Corpse before his dismissal and would later form Six Feet Under, which he fronts to this day.

As good of a vocalist as Chris is, he did punch Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation in the face so...

9 Kerry King Kerry Ray King is an American musician, best known as a guitarist for the American thrash metal band Slayer.
10 Axl Rose William Bruce Rose Jr., better known as 'Axl Rose', is an American singer born on February 6, 1962, in Lafayette, Indiana. He Is the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He is a celebrated but controversial figure in the world of rock.
The Contenders
11 Blackie Lawless
12 Karl Logan

Sick pedophile

13 King ov Hell
14 Michael Kiske Michael Kiske is a singer best known as the former lead vocalist for the German power metal band Helloween.

Why is he here?

15 Glenn Danzig Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from Lodi, New Jersey. He is the founder of the bands Misfits, Samhain and Danzig. He owns the Evilive record label as well as Verotik, an adult-oriented comic book publishing company.
16 Yngwie J. Malmsteen Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and bandleader who was born on June 30th, 1963, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was known for his neoclassical metal playing style back in the 1980s.
17 Fred Durst William Frederick "Fred" Durst is an American musician and film director. Durst is best known as the vocalist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released six studio albums.
18 Phil Anselmo Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo is an American musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Pantera. He currently is the vocalist of heavy metal bands Down and Superjoint Ritual.
19 Ian Watkins Ian Watkins is a Welsh singer and convicted sex offender, best known as the former vocalist for the rock band Lostprophets. He was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple young children and babies, and was sentenced to 29 years in prison.
20 Glen Benton Glen Benton is an American death metal musician. He is best known as the vocalist and bassist for the death metal band Deicide and was also a part of the band Vital Remains, where he has performed in recording sessions as well as live with them on a few occasions.

A controversial musician, Benton is known for his theistic satanist views and actions. He was originally going to commit suicide at age 33 in order to achieve a life opposite that of Jesus Christ, but he passed the age in 2000 and did not kill himself. In 2006, he stated that the statements he made were "asinine remarks" and that "only cowards and losers" choose to kill themselves. ...read more.
21 Robb Flynn Robert Conrad "Robb" Flynn is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal band Machine Head. Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Costanza after leaving Bay Area thrash band Vio-Lence.
22 Otep Shamaya Otep Shamaya is an American singer and rapper, best known as the lead vocalist and namesake of the nu metal band Otep. Shamaya is openly a lesbian and a vegan. She is known to be an advocate of animal rights. Shamaya also spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
23 Cronos
24 Dave Holland
25 Necrobutcher Jørn Stubberud is a Norwegian musician best known as the bassist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Necrobutcher. He is one of Mayhem's founding members, along with Euronymous, Manheim and Messiah.
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