DARKTHRONE

Undated interview with Fenriz: “I went through a phase of being really angry with other races. And now I’m back to normal.”

Fenriz: “Here in Norway it’s almost illegal to be a racist, but if you’re anti-racist it’s very nice and we don’t think that’s right. We think it should be legal to be racist and think it should be almost as illegal to be anti-racist.” (Terrorizer, 1994)

[Regarding the original pressings of Transilvanian Hunger] The band demanded Peaceville include an inflammatory text, “We would like to state that ‘Transilvanian Hunger’ stands beyond any criticism. If any man should attempt to criticize this LP, he should be thoroughly patronized for his obvious Jewish behaviour.” Peaceville issued both this statement and their own response, acknowledging that they could not censor their artists but also taking the opportunity to damn the sentiment.

Varg Vikernes wrote the lyrics to four of the songs on Transilvanian Hunger; this was after his arrest for murder and arson and certainly after he had begun to profess white supremacist beliefs.

“Varg is a great man.” - Fenriz, documentary Until the Light Takes Us, 2009

“Destruction on the holy man / who hails a Jew” - Beholding the throne of Might from the 1995 album Panzerfaust, written by Fenriz