Uldur from Thunderbolt killing a bunch of jews being one of them.

What? I've never heard that before...

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Uldur from Thunderbolt killing a bunch of jews being one of them.

Poland

There is a very good interview of Darken in Darkmoon zine #10. That interview focuses
Azelsgard (even though is a "newer" band but connected to the old TTF guard)

7. What kind of images come to your mind when remembering those days, 10 years ago?
We did many strange things because we wanted to extreme no matter the consequences. Our lives were to be short and extreme. I remember that Karcharoth and Capricornus were to live together in one flat. They were to sleep in the coffins and have black curtains in the windows in order to the daylight did not disturb them in the contemplation of the ancient knowledge about the Darkness. The cult of devil was rather funny fro us and we were biassed in favour of the bands that made a parody of the cult of Satan…our admiration for the creativity of Mortuary Drape was an evidence of our attitude…Karcharoth studied Crowley, I was keen on druidism and Capricornus tenebre. And so we slowly lost the contact with the reality. Darkness totally preoccupied us. I could tell you about many stuff we did at that time…but what for? No need to come back to these dark times…hehe...and the Karcharoth had the mental breakdown, the police started to invigilate us and our instincts of survival stopped us for a while and showed other ways…Karcharoth ended the relationship with us…changed his ideas and started to be keen on communism!!! His schizophrenia destroyed him. His trip to Norway in order to kill Fenriz is just one of the proofs of his sickness. The excuse for his plan to murder Fenriz was trivial. Karcharoth maintained that Fenriz has stolen him CD (he traded CDs with Fenriz and he sent CD to Fenriz and did not get any CD from him). So Karchaorth prepared for the trip of his life. He armed himself with axes, knives and chains, packed to his rucksack the most important zines, books and CDs with spiritual and ideological value…and he was ready to go. He reached to Swinoujscie without any problems. On the way he visited his friends from Thunderbolt (Karcharoth used to call them “my people” because he found and trained them). In Swinoujscie he took the ferry to Sweden . And he made one mistake because he bought one way ticket. So when he arrived to Sweden , he attracted the attention of the custom officers. They searched his stuff and found many interesting things. They arrested him. His mental condition was really very bad at that time so they did not know what to do with him. The next day they sent him back to Poland . Later the Swedish police wanted to use this event and spread the news that Polish Satanists came to Scandinavia to burn churches. Karcharoth described his trip in a letter to Witalis from Dead Christ Commune. In this letter he also mentioned his new friends from Africa that he met in Swedish prison. I must admit that at that time many BM people wanted to be true and they tried to prove it as Grishnackh did. But I think that Karcharoth was the most true of all of them…and it is a pity he did not accomplished his aims…

I used to be in contact with a bunch of the Polish Black Metal bands years ago including Graveland, Infernum, Fullmoon, Thunderbolt and Gontyna Kry etc. Putting on Carpathian Wolves for the first time in years, made me wonder if this scene ever got documented in extension by anyone besides the brief mention of Graveland in Lords of Chaos? I remember so many crazy things happening back then. Uldur from Thunderbolt killing a bunch of jews being one of them. You should think this kind of stuff (plus the NS-edge) would have journalists swarning like flies to shit, but there seems to be nothing about it on the net, except for the usual discography info like on this page. Anything about it in the new updated of Lords of Chaos?

Guy behind Azelsgard is some talentless ass clown who apparently is friend with Mikołaj from Mgła and some of the people from 90's scene. Just look what this downer prints on his tapes:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg84/sca ... res=medium
roughly translated to:
"ACHTUNG! Music of AZELSGARD cannot be shared through internet auction websites in the vein of: all-negro (he's referring to allegro.pl), e-gay! If you oppose My Iron Will and buy/sell My Art this way, you are a gypsy whore, not a Black Metal Fanatic!!! Support True Underground labels, zines and distributors, not "Internet Businessmen"!

TRUE PODLACHIAN HORNED METAL"

Also, http://www.capricornus.y0.pl/, apparently he is the author of that site.

Wasn't Nergal involved with people like Darken and Capricornus during the early years of Behemoth? Well as far as I know they thought that Nergal was a faggot but I wonder if he ever said anything about the scene that time.

Not so long after that, there has been a split...Uldor has been arrested and he's in prison now. Galan Dracos is suspected of some crimes too and shows his weakness in the eye of the "law"... But, obviously, THUNDERBOLT can't die, because it's might is so strong.

On the Tribute to Polish Black Metal page, it states that members of the band were involved in several church burnings, among other things. Further, it talks a bit about these topics in the Night and the Fog inlay. Please clear this matter up by stating if any of these charges are indeed legitimate?

Galan Dracos and I were confussed in one failed church burning. Uldor was confussed in one church burning and the murder of a subhuman and he was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment. His accomplice and the main "guilty" one of the murder- Cezar- was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment. That's all. Rumours say much shit...Fuck rumours !

Its a series of photos of the church in Czarnowąsy in Poland. The church was set aflame deliberately, most probably by theifs who wanted to destroy evidence and leave no traces. There is however also a theory that the arson was the result of satanists.
The photos are real and not edited. They were taken from the website of the Czarnowąsy Parish, the music is "Odi Profanum Vulgus" by the polish metal band "Kat".

And apparently Capricornus now is a drug addict who hangs around his african friends in techno parties. Things really change uh

Oh, the irony haha! Just look at the covers for The Fate Worse Than Death.
http://www.thorshammerproductions.com/s ... -large.jpg

I often wondered what happened to Capricornus. His output seemed to fizzle out after Infernum - Farewell record. Probably for the best though, he completely ruined Graveland's Immortal Pride with his sloppy drumming.

It would be interesting to know from Rob what exactly happened to him, why he left Graveland and why he suddenly likes african people.

Mgla is another polish black metal band that I feel must be mentioned. That last album that was just released was just fierce and ferocious. I simply could not stop listening to it.

No mentions of Ohtar yet? Probably my second favorite Polish black metal band after Graveland. Really powerful and well written stuff. The band has pretty extreme views and artwork, but I have no idea if they ever put it into action or not.

As for Capricornus, he actually didn't record drums on Celtic Winter, but some guy from Polish rock band, who was at the same label which specialized in punk (Melissa). At the time they were recording it Capricornus wasn't able to perform, and they took someone else.

I often wondered what happened to Capricornus. His output seemed to fizzle out after Infernum - Farewell record. Probably for the best though, he completely ruined Graveland's Immortal Pride with his sloppy drumming.

As far as the ones who never got recognition, Mysteries. Lyrically pagan, black metal band with great demo material.

I know they weren't black metal but does anyone know if the members of Honor did anything illegal? I know they were somehow connected to Graveland and obviously they were a skinhead/rac band. Never really heard much about their activity in the scene or any other connections they may have had.

Seems to be a bit about Polish BM in this one: