Varg Vikernes/Burzum

Top: Varg Vikernes wearing a camouflage hoodie and baseball cap. He is flashing an "okay" or "white power" hand signal. Bottom: Burzum's logo, the word BURZUM in white blackletter text on a black background.

Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian white supremacist musician, internet personality, role-playing game creator, and convicted murderer best known for his black metal project Burzum. Vikernes was convicted of the murder his bandmate and the arson of several churches in 1994. He served 15 years in prison, where he made much of Burzum's most influencial music.

Though Vikernes spent much of his career promoting esoteric and pagan neo-Nazism, Burzum's music has been far more successful at reaching mainstream prominence than any traditional National Socialist Black Metal project, as his ideologies are not often clearly and deliberately reflected in it.

Vikernes still promotes white supremacist messaging, particularly extreme antisemitism, under the brand Thulean Perspective. His music, album artwork, and likeness appear in far-right internet memes.

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