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Date Posted: 14:11:29 11/03/02 Sun
Author: existi
Subject: Check it out Toffly....
In reply to: Toffly 's message, "Uh... no?" on 06:11:20 11/01/02 Fri

I copied this from:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_metal_music

The part about the stew is in the last paragraph.

"The most prominent figure of the original Norwegian scene was Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, the guitarist in the band Mayhem. In many ways, he was the godfather of the Norwegian black metal scene, being its most vocal proponent and visible figure. The scene was deeply anti-Christian, and had a stated goal of removing the influence of Christianity and other non-Scandinavian religions from Norwegian culture and to effect a return to the nation's Norse roots. The movement was largely directed by an 'Inner Circle', made up of Aarseth and a few close friends, from the basement of Aarseth's record store, Helvete ('Hell'). That location also housed a recording studio, where records were made by Mayhem and a number of other bands that were signed to Aarseth's independent label, Deathlike Silence. Deathlike Silence's stated goal was to release records by bands "that incarnated evil in it's (sic) most pure state."

Also around this time there was a rash of church burnings in Norway that Aarseth's circle claimed responsibility for inspiring, if not necessarily perpetrating. The most notable church was Norway's Fantoft Church, which was burned by a member of Euronymous's inner circle, and Burzum bassist, Christian "Varg" Vikernes, aka "Count Grishnakh". Black metal enthusiasts also started to terrorize other notable "death metal" bands that were touring their country or in neighboring countries, on the basis of their lack of apparent "evilness".

The Black Metal scene gained some unasked-for mass media attention in 1990 when Mayhem's Frontman "Dead" committed suicide by a shotgun blast to his head. His note simply read "Please Excuse the mess". His body was discovered by Aarseth who, instead of calling the police, ran to a nearby convenience store and bought a disposable camera which he used to photograph the corpse for a future Mayhem album cover. Apocryphal reports also claim that he then took some pieces of Dead's splattered brains and made a stew out of them and/or members of the band took bone fragments from their friend's skull and made necklaces out of them."

Weird huh? This doesn't mean it isn't an urban legend; it's just very interesting.

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