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This is to initiate the discussion to propose that this article be merged with Varg Vikernes. Dryfee (talk) 02:53, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the name Burzum comes from "orcish" as created by J.R.R. Tolkien, meaning "darkness". Most famously the last line of the ring inscription reads, "agh burzum ishi krimpatul", and in the darkness bind them. I'm not sure however if this is simply a coincidence- and I know absolutely nothing about this project. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dalzay (talk • contribs) 15:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is Varg's intent. -P.

Can anyone find any information on a Burzum reissue? I can only find the Misanthropy reissue with the Aske EP in 1995. Every other source states that it is "rare" because the album had never been re-released. -- Death666 18:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

can someone please have actual information about the burzum music, rather than just talking about varg's beliefs and the church burnings and the murder of euronymous? fair enough, that stuff needs to be mentioned, but this article is about "BURZUM", therefore, it should be about the album releases, and the musical style of the band. not JUST the history of varg. i personally think that all the information on varg should be on VARG's page, and leave the music information on burzum and add some more! Okram 0915 March 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 04:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the 'Live' from the "Live and Compilations" section as Burzum never performed live and none of the listed releases (to my knowledge) claim to have any live recordings.

-Actually there are several bootlegs that claim to have live tracks. the onlty one im familiar with simply had tracks from the pre-s/t album demo's

Are bootlegs needed?

I'd say, not really, as they aren't part of the official discography. Still, useful to know. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is burzum not a band? Could someone please put a little bit more information in there. Why is burzum not a band? -Soyweiser

Not really sure what you mean. Varg Vikerness wrote all the music and played all the instruments so maybe "band" isn't the write word. Jackliddle 23:24, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Project" Sanctum 02:14, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On the first EP he used Samoth and had plans to orignise a full band for live acts. After he scraped this idea, it became a one-man project.--Etakistan 05:45, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One-man projects are bands. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should this really be in the Neo-Nazi category? The music never really had a specific Nazi message. Isolationist maybe but Neo-Nazi? Jackliddle 23:24, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the music is objectively Neo-Nazi. --Rapunzel 08:04, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• I edited that category out, but the server rollback removed my message on this Discussion. What I said was: that information is wrong, and thus must not stay in the article. Burzum is black metal, true. But the genre is by no way related to nazism. --Sn0wflake 23:40, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neo-nazi is an american phenomenom, Varg is a nationalist socialist but he is not a neo-nazi. Some don't really appreciate the difference between the two, but I feel it is very relevant. Neo-nazis are americans who are very mistaken about what aryan means. National socialists like Varg, while still racist, differ significantly from the american breed of neo-nazis as national socialists do understand what aryan means. The two groups don't intermingle either. Varg's music is infused with his national socialist ideals so I do believe it should be mentioned regardless of whether or not people want to agree with this poltical views. Sanctum 02:13, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

with all due respect, what makes you think that *neo-nazism* is an all american issue? the term is used for the new generation of national socialists, for people who think the old nazis did. I am German and I know what I'm talking about - it's not like we don't have any neo-nazis here. and if you look at the labels and titles of one or two of the tributes, you must admit that at least the obvious audience seems to be fascist... --Jinx138 20:11, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He's not socialist. Oh lookie: http://burzum.org/eng/library/a_burzum_story07.shtml --Etakistan 05:50, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ehhh, national socialism is the same thing as nazism, the latter is just a German shortening of the former. 惑乱 分からん 11:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I actually have been writing papers about Varg's politics in my Radical Right class. Varg is a pretty good candidate for a prototypical member of the Radical Right because the Radical Right isn't an exact and delineated category. For example, although Varg used to be into neo-nazism and used to believe in its tenets, he now claims to have abandoned it and seems to have moved on to be wholly devoted to a growing part of the Radical Right that is Odinist. Now, this faction of the Radical Right is clearly racist, sexist, and certainly connected to various parts of the extremist Radical Right. However, this certainly doesn't make Varg a neo-nazi, at least not anymore. Although he used to believe in it, and is clearly still Radical Right, he is a part of a new category within racist groups that is exploiting a sort of anti-globalization, communalism, environmentalist, racist paganism. If people here want to include Varg as a part of neo-nazi music for his influence on National Socialist Black Metal and his previous belief in neo-nazism, by all means include him because he was a part of it and a big influence on that group getting media attention. Yet, just be sure that you don't confuse his older views with his newer one's. Yeah, well, I guess absurdly ranting about Varg on wikipedia is what I get for taking this class. Anyway, if you want to analyze his views and get a better understanding of really crazy dangerous assholes in Europe, I suggest reading through the archives at [[1]], but beware, it can be equally scary and funny for its poor account of history and utter seriousness. --Brizimm 04:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As I posted on the NSBM discussion, Varg is odalist and interpretents that in a racistical way, mind you, there is no link between odalism and racism, except what the page odal shows, some nazi's had the rune on their uniforms. It is not confirmed however. As Varg says he is not a socialist, not even on a national manner thus he is not a (neo)nazi. As i said before, there has to be a line drawn between racism and nazism.

This is what he says in A Burzum Story: The Nazi Ghost

I have also experienced that most of the people supporting me or what I stand for are so-called "nazis" - while almost everybody else has just condemned me and then boycotted me and everything I have done. What makes me different from the "nazis" are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

He says most of his audience consists of neonazi's - but he states he is not one himself ^, He is not socialist on a national level (Don't forget Hitler's political party was called "NSDAP - National Socialistic DAP", which basically means he is not National Socialist, which is basically what nazi's are. And i also think there have to be none of his political ideas, maybe a mentioning towards it, because this page is about his music, which was made to "boycot" the Death Metal scene at the time, and later to boycot metal itself. I do not believe the Keyboard albums are anyway related to his racistic ideas because in that time, his ideas were those that i mentioned above. Political ideas should be moved to Varg Vikernes' page, because his music is not political in any way. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The nazis (National "Socialists") were not, in truth, socialists but conservative state capitalists. It is flawed to accept the party's misappropriation of the humanist political philosophy as gospel. Ideals central to socialist thought were not only neglected but in direct contrast to nazi objectives. Vikernes isn't the brightest crayon in the box and I don't suspect he has ever read or understood Marx. His attempt to argue that an opposition to socialism means one cannot be nazi-sympathetic demonstrates his "intelligence".

"Socialism refers to any one of various economic theories of economic organization advocating state or cooperative ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal opportunities/means for all individuals with a more egalitarian method of compensation based on the full product of the laborer". Don't know about you, but to me that seems pretty close to the system the Nazis were implementing in Germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.185.44 (talk) 12:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The intro says Burzum was formed in 1987, while the body says it was formed in 1991 after a series of other bands. --Delirium 06:45, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I believe that was the time when he was actually active with the band, there were no Burzum releases until 1991 even though it might have begun in 1987. --aenimated

The website Burzum Official website says copyright Varg Vikernes and Burzum 1991 - 2006. That means the band officially started in 1991. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The band was formed in 1987 [2], the first release wasn't until 1991. He revived Uruk-Hai in 1991. The band was basically "on-hold" when he was with Old Funeral. -Reaper-

Sources on this subject are almost universally questionable. However, as I understand it, Vikernes was never convicted of Arson. He is in prison for the murder of Eronymous. The Fantoft Kirk, which he photographed the ashes of for his second album "Aske", was set fire by a 16 year old female fan of the group. Vikernes certainly instigated this; in his trial for Eronymous' murder he claimed he was building an army of church arsonists, and that he couldn't be stopped. I think the most they legally have on him is "Conspiracy to commit Arson". He never actually set fire to a church.

It's debatable whether he actually set fire to any of the churches, but they never convicted him of this. -Reaper-

In the video of his sentencing, the voice over and captions say "Vikernes was found guilty of wilful murder, arson in Oslo - Skjold and Asane Churches, and for Storetveit Church's tower in Bergen." He also mentions the fact that he was convicted of arson several times in "A Burzum Story" found on www.burzum.org. I believe its under "The Lie - Propaganda" part. Temple-of-Monkeys —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.246.8.126 (talk) 06:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Varg was born simply Kristian Larsson Vikernes. Kvisling was legally appended to his name later after varg took a profound liking to Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian fascist.

No. Quisling (Qisling) means "descended from one of the kings ancestry" - He beleives he is related to the king of Norway - not that he is related to Harald V or any of his family - probably Vikernes' way of saying he is an earthly form of Wuotan.

It was actually a name in his family that he adapted to his own, but it is a surname in his lineage. But this debate goes in the Vikernes article not here. 4.255.49.247 (talk) 16:04, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Two sentences from the article: "Varg Vikernes expects to be released from his sentence early, around August 2006, and intends to continue Burzum." — "He will not continue the band when he is released and has disavowed himself from the black metal scene entirely." Which is it? —Quirk 13:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me he just said he'd stopped the band to stop rumours about new releases coming out and had no plans to make anything new in the near future. Currently it seems he doesn't care if he continues it or not, but he has not ruled it out completely, if that makes sense. :/ --Etakistan 05:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

actually if you read the most recent addition to his series of articles A Burzum Story: The Tommorrow (or something like that), he does state that when he is relised he will be realising 1 or 2 burzum albums--Frenrir1 20:51, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Says he might release some books, and maybe some music album or two, yes. it is not sure though. I believe that he hasn't decided yet to do it or not. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged this as {{contradiction}} because of the conflicting statements about Vikernes' neonazism - it'd be nice if someone could clear that up once and for all. -- Schnee (cheeks clone) 14:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Vikernes is not a nazi as lots of people once called him. The pagan ideals that he follows may be a bit similar to nazism but have no connection to them what ever since paganism was around long before nazism was. Varg has stated on burzum.org that he laughs at people who call him a nazi because it is simply not true."

should be reworded, and better integrated into the article, right now it sticks out like an awkward thumb, there are no sources and the sentences are poorly constructed.

As I posted on the NSBM discussion, Varg is odalist and interpretents that in a racistical way, mind you, there is no link between odalism and racism, except what the page odal shows, some nazi's had the rune on their uniforms. It is not confirmed however. As Varg says he is not a socialist, not even on a national manner thus he is not a (neo)nazi. As i said before, there has to be a line drawn between racism and nazism.

This is what he says in A Burzum Story: The Nazi Ghost

I have also experienced that most of the people supporting me or what I stand for are so-called "nazis" - while almost everybody else has just condemned me and then boycotted me and everything I have done. What makes me different from the "nazis" are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

He says most of his audience consists of neonazi's - but he states he is not one himself ^, He is not socialist on a national level (Don't forget Hitler's political party was called "NSDAP - National Socialistic DAP", which basically means he is not National Socialist, which is basically what nazi's are. And i also think there have to be none of his political ideas, maybe a mentioning towards it, because this page is about his music, which was made to "boycot" the Death Metal scene at the time, and later to boycot metal itself. I do not believe the Keyboard albums are anyway related to his racistic ideas because in that time, his ideas were those that i mentioned above. Political ideas should be moved to Varg Vikernes' page, because his music is not political in any way.

I copied this from above, to clear it once and for all indeed. Darksteel 12:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The nazis (National "Socialists") were not, in truth, socialists but conservative state capitalists. It is flawed to accept the party's misappropriation of the humanist political philosophy as gospel. Ideals central to socialist thought were not only neglected but in direct contrast to nazi objectives. Vikernes isn't the brightest crayon in the box and I don't suspect he has ever read or understood Marx. His attempt to argue that an opposition to socialism means one cannot be nazi-sympathetic demonstrates his "intelligence".

And I copied this from above because your comment "which is basically what nazi's are" is both unacademic and inaccurate.

Nazis "conservative" lol. That's as wrong as calling them communist, but they were certainly closer to anti-marxian socialism than "conservative capitalism", or believe what being a social democrat cookie cutter world views wants you to believe. 4.255.49.247 (talk) 15:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What about the swastikas on the cover of this album. If Varg is not a nazi and does not follow nazi ideollogy, then why is there a guy dressed as a nazi? Is he being murdered or what? Dexter prog 22:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will reply to myself, heh, this is not a nazi swastika but the Norse Sun cross. See more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika Dexter prog 23:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Emocore is listed in the genre box. Is this accurate? I'm not terribly familiar with the band but this seems more than a little suspect. Unless someone confirms that Burzum is in fact an emocore band, I will assume that this label is vandalism and remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.238.170.154 (talk) 20:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

No, they're not. XdiabolicalX 10:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate to indicate which album Samoth played bass on? Shplongl 16:13, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He did bass for Aske, maybe put it on Samoth's page instead. Cannibaltom 23:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should this article really be "within the scope of WikiProject Biography"? Isn't that what Varg Vikernes is for? 80.202.209.162 (talk) 16:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm getting rather bored of the genre warring on this article. I don't massively care about the inclusion of "ambient black metal" thing, but if we're going to have it, can we have a reliable source for it. Google turns up a bunch of hits, but the first hit was Anus.com which is always a worry. I'm personally of the opinion that the subgenre has no notability, but if you can find something in, say, a print source then feel free to stick it back in. Until such a source appears, please refrain. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 21:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can't believe someone missed that edit. A vandal removed a whole section from this page (one that was well cited I might add) and replaced it with a comment about Burzum sucking penis or something. That comment was removed but NO ONE put the section that the vandal removed back in to the article. That was one year ago people. I would expect more from some of the users that edit this page. I've edited wikipedia for a long time (this is just one of my anons) and I must say that this was an atrocious mistake. 67.187.245.33 (talk) 22:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's hard to catch everything. Don't blame Wikipedia, blame the vandals. Erzsébet Báthory_{(talk|contr.)} 22:37, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I know, though I still view it as an egregious error. I do blame the vandals. On a side note, I like your name. In fact, I've spoken to you before, but with an actual account, not an anon. Keep up the good work. 67.187.245.33 (talk) 23:30, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it has been mentioned in Until_The_Light_Takes_Us and here he says " I didn't use a guitar amplifier at all, but instead used only the amplifier on my brother's stereo " 92.229.234.34 (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm new to wikipedia. I didn't check the talk page before I made an edit, I should have. I put in that Burzum has been criticized for helping popularize the genre of national socialist black metal (NSBM), which describes Burzum as an important influence on NSBM. I made a link to the wikipedia article on NSBM and to an outside source. I am not saying Burzum is nazi music. Readers of the article can read the links and the arguments and make up their own minds. It is important that readers know about the controversies over Burzum, however, linked to NSBM. Otherwise readers will have little to no sense of the political matters related to the band. My boyfriend is a big Burzum fan because he likes the sound, he was surprised to learn about the controversy. He's against national socialism but is still a fan of Burzum. He is why I decided to put this up. He was too lazy to do it himself. Ellabaker July 21, 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 17:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC).[reply]

This is a subjective (and in my opinion false) claim, especially put in the first paragraph where it commands the reader's attention. The website you used as a reference is clearly an opinionated propaganda website. Varg Vikernes is a self-admitted racist, but his music is not influenced at all by this. Statements concerning his own views can be posted with credible reference to the Varg Vikernes article, but have no place on his band's page. Any "controversies" linking Burzum to NSBM are only propagated through misleading or misinformed internet sites (including sites with an agenda). Read Varg's own statements on his website and read Burzum's lyrics if you're in doubt. --Unedel (talk) 01:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I put that content back in along with a thing saying that people should go read the entry on national socialist black metal if they want more on that controversy. Your opinion that the claim is false is subjective - by the definition of the word opinion. If you want to dispute the point, provide counter evidence. I didn't that Vikernes was influenced by NSBM, I said he influenced the genre. That's what the web site says. You also don't present any evidence that the web site reference is "opinionated" in the sense that it's not credible, you just offer your opinion that the site is "opinionated." The NSBM wikipedia entry goes into more detail about Vikernes's role in shaping that genre. Did you read that and do you dispute the claims there? If so, then you should present counter-evidence so that readers will get to hear both sides. Also, if you do disagree, then that's evidence that there is in fact a controversy over this. Ellabaker August 27, 2010

Okay, I just read the wikipedia article on Vikernes, the one you recommended. This article is very clear the Vikernes did in fact identify as a national socialist for a time. That supports the point that influenced the development of NSBM. Here are some quotes from the wikipedia article on Virkenes: "According to Goodrick-Clarke, "while in jail, Vikernes began to formulate his nationalist heathen ideology using material from Norse mythology combined with racism and occult National Socialism." Goodrick-Clarke bases this account of Vikernes' beliefs on some articles that Vikernes had written for the short-lived "neo-Nazi magazine" Filosofem, published by Vidar von Herske. (...)After his conviction, Vikernes began identifying himself as a Nazi. The Encyclopedia of White Power describes him as "busy promoting his Odinist and National Socialist philosophy from behind bars." In a July 2005 statement on his website, titled "The Nazi Ghost", Vikernes states that although he "occasionally used the term 'nazism' to describe [his] ideological foundation", he no longer describes himself as a 'Nazi'." Notice that I never said Vikernes was a nazi or that Burzum was nazi music. Here's what I said: "I am not saying Burzum is nazi music. Readers of the article can read the links and the arguments and make up their own minds." Ellabaker August 28, 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 06:33, 28 August 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, he identified as a national socialist for a short time in the early 90s. But it was never an influence on his music. The Burzum article is about the band and its music. If some obscure NSBM bands look up to Varg Vikernes for his past or present political ideology, they look up to him as a person and not to his music, since his music has never had anything to do with racism or politics. If their music style was influenced by Burzum, that is irrelevant. And information about Varg's political beliefs belong in his article, not on his band's page.

Your edit said that "Some critics argue that Burzum helped popularize the racist musical genre...". I will tell you what's wrong with this sentence.

1. "Burzum helped..." - The use of the active tense here suggests that Burzum or Varg had an active role in whatever it is you're alleging, which we will try to dissect:
2. "popularize" - A very active word. How did Burzum popularize "racist music" if Burzum did not play "racist music"? If you instead said "influence", and used the passive tense, you'd be getting somewhere (but it still would be irrelevant on Burzum's article). But this use of active grammar suggests that Burzum is somehow directly responsible for the emergence of "racist music":
3. "racist musical genre" - And just a question, how can music itself be racist? Lyrics can be racist, but Burzum doesn't have racist lyrics. Okay: Varg is a racist, plays black metal, but his lyrics are not racist. NSBM bands play black metal with racist lyrics. We have a "racist" connection between them and Varg, and a "black metal" connection between them and Burzum. But there is no "racist" connection between them and Burzum. (Your edit was made to the Burzum article.)
4. "Some critics argue" - Prefacing your statement with this is a pretty fancy way of saying that it was insinuated by (and this is my opinion) a single nutcase writing a heavily slanted article on a political propaganda website. In any case weasel words are discouraged.

And the biggest problem with your edit, by the way, is that you put it in the top paragraph. The top paragraph should only summarize essential (and relevant) information. If this article were very long and thorough, your contribution (once fixed, of course) would be no better than a footnote, because it describes other people's appropriation of Varg's (but not his band's) politics. But it is a footnote which is far out of the scope of the current brief article. --Unedel (talk) 10:05, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Burzum never wrote racist lyrics. But because Vikerne's is racist, and at the time held neo-Nazi ideas, his band has been identified as NSBM by multiple sources (really, this is no different than how some bands are called Christian metal, even though their music doesn't deal with Christianity, because of their member's personal beliefs.) Here are some: Decibel, Polito-Sophia, The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture in a footnote, and Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 15:21, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Burzum is not and have never been political. That's a very conscious choice that Vikernes made. Reading the first sentence of the article on National Socialist black metal, it says: "National Socialist black metal (abbreviated as NSBM) is a form of black metal music performed by artists who promote a National Socialist (Nazi) or similar ideology through their lyrics and imagery.". That is not Burzum and will never be Burzum. Nymf (talk) 15:40, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, here (https://www.burzum.org/eng/library/ahf/concerning_the_www_burzum_com.shtml) you can read, that Varg Vikernes/Burzum is calling himself and his project in the same spirit as National Socialism, which is a faschist ideology. And the guy sounds not only political, but antisemitic and faschist in this text. So this should soon be corrected and added to the article. --Jensbest (talk) 20:20, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point of the enclosing quotes? -- AnonMoos (talk) 20:16, 5 February 2011 (UTC) Because Burzum has no official logo, it simply is the name written in different fonts. The old writing is often considered as the logo, yet Varg did not intend it. --88.152.80.106 (talk) 13:06, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Originally there was written that Burzum started to play in 1991, but I've corrected writing that started with the name Kalashnikov from 1987 to 1988, then was renamed into Uruk-Hai from 1989 to 1990, and them was finally recalled Burzum in 1991. I wrote all the necessary proofs, taking them from Burzum's official biography in his site. If you prefer to be sure, you can check reading the first part of the biography. HumanFactory

have searched and haven't succeeded in establishing this record's notability – besides, being an obscure compilation album, it is unlikely to ever grow much more than a stub. Lachlan Foley (talk) 05:01, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Varg Vikernes never said that he was ending Burzum. He said that he saw music as secondary to survivalism, meaning that Burzum is on the "back burner", so to speak, or on hold. There is still new music in his videos, hinting that he is still writing songs for Burzum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iron Wizard13 (talk • contribs) 05:38, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Burzum's STILL listed as NSBM even though the very same wiki article plainly states that the band/project's lyrics are entirely apolitical. jfc. this is why nobody takes wikipedia seriously. Calling Burzum NSBM is a factual error people learned to stop making in the 90s, try to catch up.

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Change "2009" to "2008" in description photo. Photo was taken 26 August 2008 according to source https://adagamov.info/2893915.html?rfrom=drugoi ("In this family visitation room at Tromso prison, I spoke with Varg last August.") Kingofthedead (talk) 01:22, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 20:36, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]