Re: Zep/Weirdo-Rock connection...

[James Holloway <jwholler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, one of the only musicians more into Tolkien then Plant was Kristian
Vikernes, aka Varg Vikernes, aka Count Grishnakh, who recorded some black
metal albums as a one-man band called Burzum ("darkness" in Orcish.) He
too is serving time for murder. Vikernes believes Tolkien is genuine
history; don't know if Plant ever went that far...

Sorry for the surfeit of non-Zep content


On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Debbie&Pieter wrote:

> Mortiis was once the bass player for Emperor, a Norwegian black
> metal band who made some wonderful albums. Their former
> drummer is still in jail for murder. This was going on when there was a lot
> church burning etc. in Norway. In a book on the whole scene Zep is
> mentioned as one of the major influences on black metal/Satanism.
> Funny is was just thinking as i get a lot of music magazines at my job, to
> put up a
> weekly dose of name dropping Zep bands/people. There is a lovely quote from
> Flea in Q or Mojo about hair-bands only taking the cock sucking macho thing
> influence from Led Zeppelin.
>
> Pieter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JR Sroufe <jrsrouf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:48 PM
> Subject: Zep/Weirdo-Rock connection...
>
>
> > Check out this quote about this Norwegian nut-case who calls himself
> > "Mortiis" (http://mortiis.neverland.nu/) from a Rock Sounds magazine
> > article:
> >
> > "Growing up listening to '80s American, Canadian and German
> > thrash and speed metal, Mortiis was initially fascinated by the
> > flamboyancy of Kiss and listened to his parents' Led Zeppelin
> > records."
> > -- 'Rock Sounds' 2001
> >
> > Whatta ya do at a "Mortiis" concert? Throw treak-or-treat candy? :-\
> >
> > The bastard son of Marilyn Manson, I guess...
> >
> > Later,
> > JR