CatatonicAlarm5

You mentioned rowing through a hurricane..

How does one even do that? How do you manage yo keep a rowboat upright through a hurricane or tropical storm?

He's a Norwegian black metal musician who played in Burzum and Mayhem briefly. He's probably more famous for being involved in church burnings and the murder of a fellow musician.

Once in jail he started being way more vocal about these bizarre beliefs surrounding ancient Nordic religion and white supremacy (and, specifically, the "Jewishness" of modern Christianity). He invokes Baldur a lot and was briefly in jail for hate speech in France as well as illegal guns, I believe.

He has a YouTube channel called ThuleanPerspective where he talks a lot about what you've mentioned. He was also pretty influential in the development of National Socialist Black Metal, I believe, despite white supremacy mostly not coming up in his actual music.

Edit: admittedly, I'm not an expert on National Socialist Black Metal because it sounds altogether horrible to me, so I could be misstating his influence on the genre.

Have you come across Varg Vikernes in any of your studies? I'm a big Burzum fan but despise Varg because he says things exactly like what you described

Thanks for the reply! I get nervous driving through storms on the highway, I can't imagine doing what y'all did

Also, I think it's worth noting that Fenriz seems to be a pretty decent guy. I'd read that he had protested apartheid in South Africa, and in interviews I think he is pretty dismissive of Vikernes' views. It doesn't make up for the mountain of shit that happened during second wave black metal, but at least some of the musicians were decent people