BURZUM " ANTHOLOGY" SEALED 180GM DOUBLE VINYL LP

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BURZUM " ANTHOLOGY" SEALED 180GM DOUBLE VINYL LP Next to gangsta rap, the music that probably inspired the most controversy in Western Europe in the '90s and 2000s was black metal -- and one of black metal's most controversial and notorious figures has been Norwegian singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Kristian "Varg" Vikernes , aka Count Grishnackh , who was given a 21-year prison sentence for the 1993 murder of Mayhem guitarist Øystein Aarseth , aka Euronymous , and for arson attacks on Christian churches. But all the shocking headlines that have surrounded Vikernes haven't hurt the CD sales of his Burzum project; if anything, all that negative publicity has inspired morbid curiosity in some people who aren't necessarily big black metal fans and made them want to hear what his music sounds like -- sort of the way some people who aren't the least bit racist have bought albums by Prussian Blue (a female white supremacist vocal duo consisting of twin sisters) out of morbid curiosity, or the way people who aren't necessarily big gangsta rap fans went out and bought CDs by the late gangsta rapper Russell Tyrone Jones , aka Ol' Dirty Bastard , every time he had a run-in with the law. Anthology , a collection of previously released Burzum recordings, will no doubt sell some copies due to morbid curiosity alone, but musically, the selections read more