STEREOGUM: You’ve said you’re not interested in the contemporary
Norwegian black metal scene (outside of Darkthrone). Or black metal
in general: “Black metal is not a label I use for my music any
longer.” Why not? What should it be labeled instead?
VARG VIKERNES: My main problem with Norwegian Black Metal is that almost all the bands from 1992-1993 are made up of rats, who ratted each other out and blamed me for everything that went wrong in the scene. I really don’t want to be associated with them in any way. I should stress that neither the guys in Darkthrone nor the guys in Mayhem ratted anybody out, but pretty much everyone else did. Emperor. Enslaved. Immortal. Hades Almighty et cetera. These guys are fucking rats, or they play in bands with rats – which is not much better!
Further, I really don’t want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say that just have a look at an Immortal video on YouTube or something. It’s so dumb I don’t know what to say, really, and it’s so ridicules we can barely tell the difference between the real stuff and the parodies.
Hohohoho, Varg piči direktno
Evo ostatak intervjua:
http://stereogum.com/295222/haunting-the-chapel-no-8/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/