"But what could I do, I turned around and started pushing towards the border. I walked 20 km. The border was supposedly unguarded, but I had no passport and if anyone had noticed me, I would have been in a lot of trouble. It was getting light and I finally hitched a ride. I got to Ski (where Euro lived), went to his house, and asked his father to borrow money for a train ticket to Stockholm (where I had the ferry to Poland). He agreed, but instead of taking me to the station, he handed the matter over to his son. So him, Jan and Pelle drove me, but on the way they stopped at a parking lot to beat me. Since Øystein couldn't handle me alone, the three of them attacked me and after a few kicks they proclaimed victory and announced that "I shouldn't fuck with the gang." This is how it ended so disgustingly. Then I found out that I was a thief and that I had robbed Euronymous." - Marcin W., interview published in "Najświętszy Napletek Chrystusa" zine # 6, 2008 🦇
(Drawing made by Pelle. Both drawing and the interview provided by Marcin personally)
Hellhammer: ah fuck euro he left dead in krakståd on purpose to kill himself but lol the last thing he said was ‘I’ve got a big ass new sharp knife’ and was like lol l8er I’m totally not responsible for this in any way lol
Fuck them. Seething.
Oh no not the fucking person everyone but Varg, necro, and Hellhammer say is a cunt lmao
Enemy fucking one here dudes
That’s the guy
Fucking smiles and drinks cola man
That’s him officer
Mayhem: develops dead’s pictures
Also mayhem, sans euro since murder: euro wanted us to release this bootleg with his body on it lol it’s not us as two living people, it wasn’t our idea, we’re powerless to the ghost of Øystein that printed these records oh well might as well be famous
Also post-euro mayhem: lol his family begged us to take Varg’s bass off the tracks but we said fuck that bc poetic black metal with murder victim and his killer, were edgy but were the good guys 🥺🥺🥺
"She [girlfriend] is controlling everything he [Necro] does, and now she is trying to control us too. Soon he is going on holiday with her and we had to cancel a tour in Sweden because of that. We almost don't see him anymore because he is always with her. He doesn't spend any money on band at all, and me and Dead have to pay for everything - stamps etc, which is a lot of fucking money. This is because he spends everything on her. The band is not important to him at all anymore." - Excerpt of Øystein's letter to Jim Mutilator, mid 1990 🦇
Letter taken from @arcanearchivist FB page
(I think this letter shows nicely just how insignificant the band was to Jørn back then. Nearly a year before Pelle's death and before his girlfriend's pregnancy he was already on his way out (fact also confirmed by Metalion in Slayer mag book). He never bothered to organise anything, never bothered to answer letters, never bothered to do zine interviews, help Øystein, and as we can see from this, has even left Øystein and Pelle to pay for everything, and cancelled gigs too. Hellhammer wasn't any better. There is a certain narrative that only Pelle was taking the band seriously and everyone else didn't care in 1991, which I always found a bit ridiculous because anyone who knows anything about Øystein knows he was the main engine of the band, and this letter, along with handful of others, proves that Pelle AND Øystein were the ones who kept the band going)