Top Ten Most Disturbing Things Done by Black Metal Musicians

Both were scummy psychos who burnt down churches and wanted to spread hate. Seriously, imagine thinking that Varg was innocent. There's a reason why he got sentenced to 20 years in prison.

I agree that Euronymous was a bad person, but what Varg did was not self-defense. Chasing after someone and repeatedly stabbing them is homicide. Let's also not forget how he was a neo-Nazi at one point and planned to blow up a building.

"SELF-DEFENSE"? That's all well and good if he had proof of it.

Lmao, it was validated vengeance fueled by panic and fear. When you travel miles to confront an estranged friend and then chase him around a staircase with a knife you brought, it can't be regarded as self-defense. Not in the legal sense, anyway. Varg's "self-defense" story doesn't make much sense.

It's quite funny when the only "evidence" for his self-defense case is his story. Do people believe everything anyone tells them without evidence? His friends told him, "Yo dude, Euronymous is gonna totally kill you," and he took it seriously, went to his house, and killed him. Even his story makes no sense and is filled with obvious plot holes. "My friends told me he was going to kill me, so I went to his house and killed him." Just on their word? Plus all these holes about "I thought he had a gun" - it just makes no sense.

Even if you believe Varg's account of the events, it still can't be considered self-defense. What he did was basically preventing a disaster by himself. He could have gone to the police instead, but he decided to take matters into his own hands. That's not self-defense.

It was not self-defense because:

1. Self-defense is against an immediate attack, not a planned attack.
2. His only proof of self-defense was his own account of the events, with no factual evidence at all.
3. This is why his defense was laughed out of court by independent forensic and medical professionals, and he was found guilty.

There's also another theory that another possible motive for his murder was the situation that Euronymous might fold under police interrogation and rat out Varg on all the fires he'd been lighting on churches. Not sure how much credibility supports this theory, but it's certainly one worth looking into.

Faust from Emperor stabbed a gay man 37 times, and the justification he gave in court was that the man "made a pass" at him.

The drummer of the band Emperor stabbed a gay man 37 times for supposedly "making a pass at him."

Mayhem's vocalist, Dead (yep, that was his name), committed suicide in the band's house by slitting his wrists and shooting himself with a shotgun. His suicide note simply read, "Excuse all the blood. Cheers."

On entering the house and finding Dead's body, what do you think Euronymous did? Call the cops? Pass out with shock? No! He pulled out a camera and clicked a picture of the corpse to use it as the band's next album cover.

To clear some things up, the band never intended to use it as an album cover. It was put as a cover for a bootleg live album by one of Euronymous's friends without the band's permission. So, the band members didn't actually make an album cover from the picture.

Still messed up to take photos of a suicide, of course, but yeah, that part's false. And the part about him eating pieces of his brain and making necklaces is a rumor that is fake as well.

Gaahl, the vocalist of Gorgoroth, locked a man in his house and tortured him for several hours. According to the victim, Gaahl injured the man, collected his blood in a cup, and then threatened the man that he would drink it.