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Updated: BURZUM Leader Fails To Return After Short Leave From Prison - Oct. 26, 2003

The Norwegian media is reporting that BURZUM mastermind Varg "Greven" Vikernes (a.k.a. Count Grishnack) failed to return after a short leave from his prison in Vestfold, Norway, where the black metal musician is serving a 21-year sentence for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous), the burning of three churches, and the resulting death of a fireman. Varg, 30, was supposed to return to the prison by midnight Saturday (October 25) after being granted a couple of days off, but failed to come back in time. The police have no information on his whereabouts.

May Satan guide him away from the hands of justice.

Looks like Varg is back to where he belongs now.

UPDATE: VARG VIKERNES Captured After Car Chase! - Oct. 26, 2003

A day after he failed to return to prison as scheduled following a short leave, Varg Vikernes was captured by the Norwegian police on a highway outside the country's capital.

Vikernes was taken into custody at 12:45 a.m. Monday morning (October 27) after police in Oslo received information from police in Romerike that the fugitive was traveling in a car on the E6 road to Oslo.

"We signaled for Vikernes to stop, but when he didn't, we were forced to box his car in between two police vehicles. There was a was dent [to the car]," officer Vider Hjulstad told NTB.

Varg Vikernes was alone and unarmed at the time of his arrest.

Looks like you should have prayed to Odin...

Yeah, I mix up the satanic Norwegian bands with the Viking Norwegian bands now and then.

Here is some more news on Varg


(Blabbermouth) UPDATE: VARG Held Family At Gunpoint, Fled Prison Because He Feared Attempt On His Life - Oct. 27, 2003

Varg Vikernes threatened a family with a pistol and hijacked their car in a failed bid to elude the Norwegian police during his 24 hours on the run, it was reported Monday.

At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Sunday (October 26), a family of three driving through the valley known as Numedal in Buskerud County reported being flagged down by a pedestrian. When they stopped to assist him, the pedestrian believed to be Vikernes allegedly threatened them with a handgun and forced them to surrender their car.

"They explained that they were held at gunpoint and were forced to leave the vehicle, and that the man [Vikernes] took off in it," police spokesperson Knut Svalheim told wire service NTB.

The car was ultimately spotted around midnight Sunday by an unmarked police patrol in Romerike, north of Oslo. Believing Vikernes to be armed, police responded with five police cars and armed officers.

"We signalled for him to pull over, but when he failed to respond, we had to press his car in between two police cars," police operations leader Vidar Hjulstad said.

Although no gun was found, a knife or a bayonet was reportedly retrieved from the vehicle. However, at this time, it is not clear if the knife belonged to Vikernes or the family who owns the car.

On Monday, authorities will decide whether Vikernes should return to the low-security prison Berg, where he was serving the a 21-year-sentence for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous), or be transferred to a maximum-security prison.

Meanwhile, Varg's mother Helene Bore has revealed the content of a letter her son left her while visiting her Saturday. In it, Vikernes writes that following a critical article in the local paper Tønsbergs Blad on October 15, there was an attempt on his life when another inmate tried to strangle him.

"Mother, I will flee," Vikernes allegedly wrote in the letter.

"When I read in his letter that his life had been threatened, I had a better understanding of why he made the choice of [trying to flee]," Helene Bore told Dagbladet. "He couldn't tell the prison staff about the threats, because he was afraid they'd put him back in a locked cell. But he feared the threats."

Even though Vikernes was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 1994, he was set to serve only another two years of his sentence. A couple of months ago, he was transferred to the low-security prison Berg in Tønsberg where the main gate isn't locked. Still, inmates very rarely opt to escape since they only have a short period of time left of their sentences before being released.

The hunt for Vikernes is now set to spark a debate in Stortinget, Norway's Parliament, about the prison system which allows inmates short leaves from jail. A member of the opposition has already called for a review of the system.

"The rules of how early one is released have just been changed and Varg was certain he would have to serve at least another four years," explained Bore who believed this contributed to her son's frustrations.

"I was as surprised as everyone else when he fled. But when I read the letter, I could see that the situation seemed hopeless to him."

The article in Tønsbergs Blad was critical of the fact that Vikernes, a convicted murdered with right-wing beliefs, was transferred to a low-security prison. Eight years ago, Varg started the national socialist group Norsk Hedensk Front (Norwegian Heathen Front), which he ran from his cell in Trondheim at the time. In an e-mail to Dagbladet, NHF claimed that Vikernes is no longer a member of the organization "because it's best both for us and him."

According to his mother, Vikernes no longer is in contact with neo-nazi groups and his one and only wish is to lead a normal life.

"For a while he thought that it was possible for him to have a normal life," she said. "But after the article in that newspaper he felt that it was hopeless. He feels that no matter what he does he will be haunted by the past. He will never be done paying for his crimes."

Helene Bore is concerned for her son, but happy that he wrote the letter.

"This way I don't have to fear that someone has done something to him or that he's done something to himself," she said. "I do wish he'd chosen another way out. If he'd talked to me, I would've advised him to complete his sentence. But he's apparently given the matter a great deal of thought and couldn't bring himself to deal with it in any other way. He's spent his entire adult life incarcerated and is a good boy."

Does this mean Varg will be free in two years?

Never understood this one. The man committed several crimes, including the premeditated murder of another person. He deserves to be punished, and by his own philosophy that he believed so strongly when originally sentenced he deserves it. He also, by his own philosophy, deserves to be murdered. Where I'm stuck is how everyone thinks he's such a hero and deserves to be freed.

Varg is a disgrace to the Asir.

I think he deserves to rot in his cell.

Lawyer: VARG VIKERNES Considered Joining The French Foreign Legion - Oct. 31, 2003

When BURZUM mastermind Varg Vikernes, known in his native Norway as "Greven" (Norwegian for "The Count"), failed to return to return to prison as scheduled following a short leave, he wanted to leave Norway behind for good and considered joining the French Foreign Legion, according to the daily newspaper Nettavisen.

"He had no concrete plan except that he wanted to get away from Norway," John Christian Elden, Vikernes' lawyer, told Aftenposten after visiting his client in Romerike prison Friday.

"He wanted to go somewhere where he could live without being treated as a leper because of his past. That was why he considered the French Foreign Legion."

After failing to return to prison at midnight Saturday (Oct. 25), Vikernes drove towards the Swedish border, when he, according to his lawyer, changed his mind and drove back towards Oslo.

According to Elden, Varg insists that he did not use a weapon when he threatened a family to give him their car while he was on the run. Vikernes claims that he only had a flashlight, but no weapon.

Vikernes is serving the maximum sentence of 21 years for the murder of MAYHEM leader Øystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous) in August 1993, and for arson of Åsane church, Skjold church in Vindafjord and Holmenkollen chapel.