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Police arrested a Norwegian man on Tuesday,(16/07/13) who had been living in Corrèze since his release from prison for murder, and his French wife. The background of this black metal singer, who describes his ideas as "Satanist, nationalist, racist, racialist (…) and even Nazi," raised fears of terrorist intentions.

Kristian Vikernes was born on February 11, 1973, near Bergen, in western Norway. In the late 1980s, he changed his first name to Varg (wolf in Norwegian) and took up the guitar. "I had nothing else to do, so I devoted most of my time to working on music," he told the website Radio Metal in 2012. With two friends, they founded a black metal band, Kalashnikov, "because it's the name of my favorite assault weapon," as he himself explained online. The band quickly became Uruk Haï, named after the author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, for a race of Orcs. In 1991, Vikernes founded Burzum, which also takes its name from Tolkien's works. A special feature of this black metal band is that it is a one-man band: Vikernes is the only member of this formation.

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