Until the Light Takes Us Page #5

l went to Norway where all the guys burned

the churches down and murdered each other

and, like, are in prison making music.

l, like, visited, like, Euronymous' grave

and death and all this

because l love black metal.

The most extreme music in the world.

Most of them are in prison now.

They killed their Messiah, Euronymous.

They were confirming the media's version

and making all of it even worse.

The media was misinterpreting.

l said, ''Hey, you're wrong.''

And then these guys sort of confirmed that,

''No, we're right. Look at these guys.''

How can you stand for this crap, you know?

It's impossible.

And at this point

l was starting to become

a problem in this scene.

He was planning to kidnap me.

He was planning to knock me out

with an electro-shock pistol

like the type that security guards carry

and tie me up, take me to the forest,

and make a snuff film

of torrturing me to death.

And of course l took it serious.

Apart from that he just--

lf he were talking about it, like,

in the shop to everybody and anybody,

l wouldn't have taken it serious.

But he didn't.

He just told a select group of friends.

And one of them, you know, told me.

And later on he wrote a letter to me

you know, as if we were friends.

Which of course confirmed my suspicion

that he had some plans.

Why did he suddenly want

to be friends, you know?

Of course, to have an excuse to

you know, get close to me

without awaking any suspicion.

The only reason he had to contact me was

a contract between Burzum and his label.

So he sent me the contracts

and wanted me to sign them.

And he wanted to meet

when we were signing them.

Okay. There's no reason to wait.

Let's just go to Oslo and get done with it.

So l drove to Oslo.

But of course it takes

some time to get to Oslo.

You know, it's 500 kilometers

of bad roads and mountains.

So, it took some time to reach.

l think we were there at 3:00

or maybe 4:
00.

So he was sleeping.

l told him, ''Well, l don't care

if you're sleeping, just open the door.''

And he opened the door...

which is rather strange really.

You know, he just opened the door,

even though he had plans to kill me.

And he had his beeper, you know?

And when l got up in the apartment,

he panicked.

Because, you know, he probably--

He had plans to kill me.

l was aggressive.

You know, so he panicked.

He attacked me. He kicked me in the chest.

l just threw him to the ground,

a bit stunned really.

Because, you know, he attacked me

and l didn't expect it at the time.

And l was stunned for a while.

He was just sitting on the floor.

And suddenly he got up trying to get

to his knife in the kitchen.

And l thought, ''Well, if he's going to have

a knife, l'm going to have a knife.''

l had a pocket knife--

this small pocket knife.

l got it up and prevented him

from getting to the kitchen, you know,

so he didn't manage to get his knife.

And then he started off against--

started to run off towards his bedroom

where he kept the shotgun

that Dead shot himself with

as well as the electro-shock pistol.

lt turned out, later on, that he didn't have

any of these things in the bedroom,

but l believed it at the time.

And that is the reason l followed him.

And instead of going into the bedroom,

he just left the building, really.

He just started to run down the stairs.

And l followed him

and managed to stop him.

And, of course

l had a friend with me.

Actually, the guitarist of Mayhem.

And, of course, he was rather shocked.

And l waited because l didn't know

how he was going to react, you know?

He was the guitarist in Mayhem.

So for all l knew, he could attack me as well.

Maybe they planned it, you know?

You get a bit paranoid in situations like that.

So l just waited for-- for-- for--

What's going to happen?

l just waited.

Aarseth was on the floor.

He broke a lamp on the wall

so he was swimming in glass fragments

with only his underwear,

so he was rather bloody.

And this other guy just ran past me.

And of course l understood that, okay,

he's not a part of it.

So l asked him, ''Are you okay?''

And he just ran off.

And then l remembered

that he had my car keys.

And l had blood all over myself.

And Aarseth got up and attacked me again.

So l finished Aarseth off. l just--

What do you say?

Stabbed? Chopped?

Stabbed him in the skull

so he died immediately.

And l followed the other guy.

He ran to the car.

So, l managed to calm him down.

He gave me the car keys.

l opened the car, you know,

and we drove back.

l wouldn't speak negatively about him

in the sense l speak negatively

about the others.

He never said that he was going

to do anything.

And he never did anything.

But that's an honorable thing, isn't it?

lt's worse when you say

you're going to do it and you don't do it.

Gylve, as l said, is a special person

with special goals,

and it's impossible

to know what his goals are.

He--

He's successful at what he's doing

and l guess he's happy with that.

We did not think it was Count Grishnackh.

So we were looking out, we were looking.

We were watching our backs.

l thought what the hell can l do

for Euronymous? He's dead, man.

l dedicated the A Blaze

In the Northern Sky album to him.

Who can l support now?

Well, it's the guy that's still alive.

And he's, like, muffled in jail.

When l got the sentence l already knew

that l was going to get 21 years.

That's the maximum penalty in Norway.

lt's not much by American standards,

but that's maximum in Norway.

So, the judge was really eager to,

you know,

as if she was happy, you know?

''Twenty-one years. Great.''

Because she wanted to underline that

''we do not tolerate this type

of rebellion in Norway.''

And of course they were expecting me

to be, like, wetting my pants or something.

And it just made me smile, really.

l turned my head to the audience

you could call it, and just smiled.

And from what l gathered,

they smiled back.

Varg always will be a great guy.

Even though his views on everything

are deemed, like

an abomination by Norway.

He f***ed up.

He's a very intelligent guy.

He's a very talented guy.

But he wanted to live differently from us

so he decided to burn these churches.

lt must have been

one hell of a rush for him.

But now he's in jail,

and that must suck for him.

But, you know,

he has himself to thank for it.

lt's very hard to recognize the truth

when you are bombarded

by lies all the time.

Every minute of the day,

you have to go to sleep.

But even in sleep, because you dream

of the impressions you have during the day.

You're bombarded by commercials

and completely senseless information

every single day.

lf you turn on the TV,

you're bombarded.

lf you turn your head

in some direction

you see some sign,

some commercial.

Read magazines, newspapers,

senseless information.

The news are themselves

products being sold.

Everything is meaningless.

Sure the truth is out there--

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