Varg Vikernes not released from prison. (big surprise...)

There's a whole long, drawn-out story behind this situation, but here's the 5th-grade Easy Reader version:

There was the guy named Euronymous who was the former guitarist for Mayhem, a Norwegian black metal group. As Mayhem gained popularity, Euronymous got out of hand and started doing crazy things, like inciting fans to burn down churches. When Dead, the singer for Mayhem violently killed himself by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun, Euronymous responded by saying that, "It was the best thing Dead ever did for the band." Nice....reeeal nice. There were also rumors about him eating his dead friends brains and making jewelry from his skull fragments. Whatever...

So, now we get to good ol' Varg. Varg Vikernes was at one time friends with Euronymous, but when he felt that Euronymous was getting to be more evil than he was, he decided to kill him. He went to his house to discuss the record deal he had with Euronymous's label and stabbed him in the chest, in the back and then to finish him off, once in the skull for a total of 23 wounds. Varg later did an interview with Kerrang! and upon being asked about the murder, he showed no remorse by saying, "Euronymous' death means nothing to me. I will dance and piss on his grave."

That's very special of you Varg.

So, needless to say, Varg was arrested and out in prison for 21 years with possible parole after serving 12. His parole which recently came up, was of course denied.

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*information for this article was found in the October 29, 2006 issue (#1080) of Kerrang!