What is Varg Vikernes?
{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Varg Vikernes | Img = Varg Vikernes.jpg | Img_capt = Vikernes during his last year in prison in 2009 | Img_size = 260px | Landscape = | Background = solo_singer | Birth_name = Kristian Vikernes | Alias = Count Grishnackh | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|2|11}} | birth_place = [[Bergen]], [[Norway]] | death_date = | death_place = | Instrument = [[Electric guitar]], [[bass guitar]], [[drum kit|drums]], [[synthesizer]], [[vocals]] | Genre = [[Black metal]]<br />[[black ambient]]<br />[[Ambient music|ambient]] | Occupation = [[Musician]], [[songwriter]], political activist | Years_active = 1987–2015 | Label = | Associated_acts = [[Burzum]]<br />[[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]]<br />[[Old Funeral]]<br />[[Darkthrone]]<br />Uruk-Hai<br />Satanel | URL = [http://www.burzum.org Burzum.org] }} '''Varg Vikernes''' (legal name '''Louis Cachet''', born '''Kristian Vikernes''' on February 11, 1973 near [[Bergen]], [[Norway]]) is a [[black metal]] [[musician]], [[convicted]] [[murderer]], [[fire|arsonist]] and [[political activist]]. In 1991, Vikernes created the one-man [[music]] project [[Burzum]]. Burzum quickly became important within the early Norwegian black metal scene. Later he became a part of the [[Heathen Front]] and wrote several writings on [[Germanic neopaganism]]. In the early 1990s, there were black metal [[band]]s who believed in burning [[church]]es to prove their hatred for [[Christianity]]. Vikernes was found [[Guilt (law)|guilty]] of [[arson]] and the [[murder]] of [[Mayhem]] band member [[Euronymous|Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-22|title='Before you know it, it's not a big deal to kill a man': Norwegian black metal's murderous past|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/22/before-you-know-it-its-not-a-big-deal-to-kill-a-man-norwegian-black-metals-murderous-past|access-date=2021-11-24|website=the Guardian|langua