Burzum - Burzum (1992)

"Grishnackh's knife-in-the-back was not a worthy contribution to the glory of Satan. It was how he acknowledged and worshipped the deity in early interviews and influenced thousands of people to intensify their bonds with black metal and, in continuation, the Devil. I've known quite a few people who began their esoteric pursuit as fans of early BURZUM records, who read the interviews and went on to become devout Left-Hand Path practitioners. This was his actual satanic achievement, not the sensationalism that catapulted him into stardom. Young Grishnackh was himself inspired by the freshly developed thoughts on how 'black metal Satanism' was to be understood - as promulgated by Euronymous and Dead (MAYHEM, MORBID), Jon Nödtveidt (DISSECTION), IT (OPHTHALAMIA, ABRUPTUM), together with a handful of others who publicly experimented with radical thoughts as early as in 1991."
TT describes how, in a short moment of lucid awareness, Vikernes realised the true nature of the Devil.
"There are interviews clearly stating that he 'studies the Golden Dawn system of magick'. You can see related book-spines in the background of an old photo, and he even used Aleister Crowley's A.A. sigil as cover for his 1991 'Demo II'. Not to give Crowley's belief much credit in this context, but there were many more relevant factors that shaped BURZUM and the course of black metal than people want to acknowledge today. Remember how he continuously, in many interviews, called Satan an existing divinity and not just a metaphor? His, and I quote, 'Lord and master' whom he worships - even calling him 'Lucifer the fallen light bearer' in one interview, which shows remarkable perceptiveness in a time when the focus was on all things blasphemous and anti-Christian. All this has now been forgotten, ignored and reinterpreted since it contradicts everything that Varg became after Grishnackh died."
Thus, he proclaims, seeking the source of seeds planted by Satan in souls of young black metal fanatics - it is to interviews and music of the time one should look, not contemporary revisionist history.
"And here we have it, the truly worthy sacrifice. That he backstabbed Euronymous made him an awkward pop cultural celebrity like Ché Guevara and Charles Manson, but everything truly great was done whilst worshipping the Horned Lord between late 1991 and early 1993, preceding his conversion to pro-life Odinism."