Øystein Aarseth (1968–1993) went by the stage name Euronymous, and was a guitarist for the infamous Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also the founder and owner of Deathlike Silence, his own record label for underground black metal bands. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Norway - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Black metal is a musical genre, related to styles of heavy metal, such as death metal. ... Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band which was originally formed in 1983. ... Deathlike Silence is the record label founded by Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) for the underground Norwegian Black Metal scene. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...

Biography

Aarseth joined Mayhem in 1984. At the time he went by the stage name "Destructor". When he joined the band (which then consisted of Jorn Stubberud on bass and Kjetil Manheim on drums) he changed his name to Euronymous, which he claimed means "Prince Of Death" in Greek, but in fact derived from a reference to the Greek demon Eurynomos in the Satanic Bible. Aarseth's presence in the band had a profound effect on all of its members, and on the Norwegian black metal scene as a whole. Aarseth became the single man at the hub of all the black metal goings-on. He opened a record store called Helvete (Norwegian for "Hell") and started his own record label and mailorder, which he named "Deathlike Silence". When Mayhem's vocalist, Dead, commited suicide, Euronymous discovered the corpse and took pictures for use as a future album cover. It is also widely thought that Euronymous consumed portions of Dead's brain and/or made a necklace using fragments of Dead's skull. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ... The Satanic Bible was written by Anton LaVey in 1969. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ...

In 1993, Øystein Aarseth was stabbed to death by Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (who at the time went by the name "Count Grishnackh"). He was stabbed a total of twenty-three times: two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back. The exact reasons for the murder are unknown, although arguments over money, as well as jealousy of Euronymous' reputation, are the usual accepted reasons. After Aarseth's death, Mayhem continued recording their upcoming album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. However, Euronymous's mother told Hellhammer, Mayhem's drummer, to remove bass lines that had been recorded by Varg. He said to her that he would personally re-record the bass himself, but the truth is that he had no idea how to, so the album remained the same, featuring Varg on it. Other rumours about Occultus, Mayhem's former vocalist, playing the new bass lines are thought to be false as well. Varg Vikernes was born Kristian Vikernes on February 11, 1973, outside of Bergen, Norway. ... Hellhammer was an early black metal and death metal band, hailing from Switzerland and popular briefly in Europe in the mid-1980s. ... Occultus (real name Culto Culus) was a vocalist for the black metal band Mayhem. ...