Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”
R. L. Burnside killed a man “possibly at a craps game.”
Varg of Mayhem Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.
I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.
I used to love Brand New back in high school and college. When The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me came out, it pretty much captured my life for months. Turns out that the album’s lyrics were a little more… autobiographical than most people thought, and Jesse Lacy is a shitty person.
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Varg killed Euronymous because Euro was talking about making a snuff film of Varg because he (E) was jealous of how much success Varg was having with his own project and activities.
Keep in mind that Euronymous’s response to his band’s vocalists’ suicide was to take a picture of his dead body and collect pieces of his skull to hand out to his friends as necklaces. Out of all the shitty things Varg Virkernes has done in his life, killing Euronymous just about makes up for it.
At least Jesse Lacy agrees that he’s a shitty person, and he’d probably be the first one to tell you he’s a shitty person.
Preaching to the choir dude, Euronymous was a dick.
I agree. Also just noticed that in your post you call him “Varg of Mayhem” which is an interesting take considering the fact that he played bass on one song
Ah I thought he was part of Mayhem at the time, fixed now.
Man, if I were in a scene where anybody was doing anything close to shit like that I would be like “I’m gonna just do my own thing in my bedroom, you guys can have fun with all of this, goodbye”
Eh the early black metal scene was mostly all in good fun until the church burnings started, after that it just became a big dick measuring contest between a few of the bigger figures in the movement to see who could be the most edgy. IMO Euronymous was a cancer on the whole movement and is responsible for why things got as fucked up as they did
That whole scene of Norwegian Black Metal was a wild circus.
Crazy when I stop and think about how damn young they all were, too. Dead was dead by 22, Euronymous was dead by 25, Faust was I think 19 when he committed a random murder because “…I guess he wanted to know what it’s like to kill a person” (according to a band mate).
Just an absolutely crazy little world.
Relevant Brand New lyrics: