The record store that Euronymous owned in the heyday of black metal has been damaged by a fire. Ironic.
The record store, Neseblod Records (formerly Helvete), is something of a black metal holy site, and a bunch of rare and important artifacts were destroyed. Black metal history is metal history, and the loss of that history is nothing short of tragic. It’s just… y’know, kinda ironic…
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Also, the perfect T-shirt to wear when visiting Neseblod Record’s basement! 🤘🏽🇳🇴
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Thank you Iben Holt for sharing with us this picture of a WATAIN / In Solitude / Degial gig flyer which survived the fire that sadly happened at Neseblod Records (formerly Helvete) in Oslo !
There is an ongoing gofundme campaign to send some support to the place which really is a huge piece of black metal history!
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Just letting you know that there was a fire last night in neseblod records (originally helvete)
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Fire in historic Neseblod Records
Tuesday evening, the apartment building had to be evacuated after heavy smoke development, and the fire department responded with several vehicles to the address on Schweigaards gate, where Neseblod Records is located. Neseblod Records occupies the same space as the old Helvete Record Store, which was once owned by Øystein Aarseth, also known as “Euronymous” from the band Mayhem. Aarseth started…
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Shout out to Neseblod Records (formerly Helvete) in Oslo where I got this hat.
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i just ordered a darkthrone poster signed by fenriz from the neseblod record store and i’m so excited <3
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2.08.22
ASHES
About half an hour out of the city centre on the peninsula of Bygdøy sits Norsk Folkemuseum, a vast miscellany of buildings housing Norse cultural and historical items and traditions. Tom had gotten carried away with some locals the night prior and ended up at Norwegian kickons till morning, so it was just me and Louis who got a bus out to the open air museum around midday. The precinct contains dozens of buildings that have been relocated from towns all across Norway: a log farmhouse from 1238, 17th century sod-roofed lofts from the farmlands of Eastern Norway, a townhouse from 18th century Oslo, and, what I was most excited about, the Gol Stave Church. Stave churches, wooden medieval churches found mostly in Norway, have long intrigued me since naturally coming across them by getting into black metal. Church arson was one of the defining themes of the early Norwegian black metal scene, the finest metal scene there ever was. In 1992 Varg Vikernes, the man behind Burzum, turned the Fantoft Stave Church in Bergen to ashes; a building that had stood since 1150. I recall looking at photos of the church as a teenager and never having seen anything like it: a shard-like structure, made entirely of dark-as-onyx pine logs, scale shingles like a skink’s skin, and serpentine dragon heads protruding off each roof like the figurehead of a viking ship. The burnt wreckage of Vikernes’ Christianophobic zeal can be seen on the cover of Burzum’s 1992 Aske EP. The Gol Stave Church was built in 1212 and moved to where I was walking around in it in 1885. Inside the church was hard and cold, and a mixture of Christian and Norse mythical ornamentations hung across the entrance and walls. I don't have close to the knowledge to understand how Christian and pagan ideas were in use contemporaneously and can coexist in the artworks and wood carvings of the interior, but it was very pretty nonetheless.
Burzum - Aske 1993
Edvard Munch - Aske 1895
Black metal, Norway's greatest export, was again on the agenda the next day. The aforementioned Vikernes was part of what Euronymous, Mayhem’s guitarist, called the Black Metal Inner Circle, a group of black metal musicians who were integral to the flourishing BM scene of the early 1990s. At the centre of this scene was Helvete, a record store & basement where the Inner Circle converged and schemed, operated by Euronymous. Not long before being murdered by Vikernes in 93, Euronymous closed the shop due to police attention. The shop was later reopened under a different name and the basement preserved. That shop, Neseblod (Nosebleed) Records, is still run today as a metal record store and the basement is open to the public. The basement was much bigger than I'd imagined, with multiple rooms of records, CDs, mags and shirts, all looking as though they’ve sat there since the 2000s and adorned with the levels of dust and soot one would expect to find in a basement. To get to the main attraction, the concrete wall with the words Black Metal scrawled across it that forms the background of many famous photos from that era, you have to walk down a passage festooned with band posters and photos, artworks and an odd mix of religious objects and weights. The weights would be related to the bench press that sits to one side of the last room of the basement. The bench press and some framed photos around it, belonged to Euronymous. Behind this a large Mayhem banner stretches across one of the room's walls. Another has a throne with a Venom poster (Venom’s 1982 album Black Metal is widely credited for laying the foundations for the genre, as well as lending its namesake) hanging above it. To one side of the wall with the markings on it stood a large black candle stick which I hadn't seen in my research, but the writing on the wall stood prominently, albeit faded compared to the famous photos. In Sweden I had a terrible time trying to post a record I'd bought to London, and my backpack was over capacity already, so I refrained from buying any shirts or records. I did buy a Darkthrone pin however, and I think Tom bought a Tormentor shirt.
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