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His character shift is a positive overall though I'd say. He went from edgy retard associated with Satanists trying to be as evil as possible for the lols, to being an old racist schizo Gandalf on Twitter (rip thuleanperspective on youtube) who either dispenses sagely wisdom or absolute autism (or both)

Well, most of his contemporaries are either still degenerates or just straight up dead. He's probably the most well off and put together norwegian black metal artist there is. He himself probably would have ended up dead or still an edgy loser if he didn't go to prison for 16 years

But really, as far as black metal musicians go and even factoring in his early life, Varg is pretty fucking moderate. His music is (and always was) not political, not satanic, not misanthropic, and not even anti Christian. Actually, Burzum is the entire reason why black metal stopped being tied to Satanism and anti christianity explicitly and why half of the damned genre is now tied to traditional fantasy, European myth, and norse paganism. An extremely positive change I must say. It went from jew worshipping hedonist insanity to outright promoting ancient white culture because of burzum. He didn't and never has held any misanthropic views, he was never a satanist. He's not even that racist (he just believes every race evolved different to live in different environments. That's pretty much it). He was edgy sometimes and used the evil aesthetic to be cool and sell albums, and that's pretty much it. He may or may not have burnt down the stave churches. I'm neutral on this and there's no proof of it, so I'm not factoring it in. Just focusing on shit he verifiably did unless he admits to it himself.

I personally don't believe he would have actually burnt down the stave churches, because he probably knows that they're literally surviving examples of pagan architecture and that's his thing. They were probably burnt down by an outright satanist in the scene.

The only reason he gets attention is because he killed euronymous (which was absolutely deserved). Euronymous was the scum of the earth and deserved it. But this was an act of "premeditated self defense" and varg obviously isn't a murderer. And, besides that, because he actually has coherent views that runs absolutely counter to ZOG (mostly, except his anti christianity) and promotes them outside of his music to a wide audience. Those are the only 2 reasons everyone hates varg. If you want actual evil, look at the shit that the dude he killed was doing. Varg is a Saint compared to Øystein (euronymous). Convinced his friend to kill himself with a shotgun, used his suicide picture on a bootleg album cover for Mayhem, ate parts of his brain, and sent parts of his skull in the mail to random musicians, told his friends a detailed plan to torture and kill varg on a snuff film. Yeah, that fucker deserved it.

Which side note is why I don't think he burnt the Churches, he denies doing it after serving the time, And given it's Varg I don't think he'd be bragging about it if he really did it.