But Øystein went to great lengths to create a kind of role-playing game. The genre is based on some basic emotions that we humans have: The dark part we all have in us.
One thing is to play in those areas, something completely different is to lose the sense of reality.
Now I do not think Øystein lost his sense of reality, but that he took the theater too far. Then people show up who do not have the sense of reality in order.
Øystein Aarseth was killed.
Kjetil was not directly informed of the death.
When your best friend is stabbed to death, and the news reaches you through the newspapers…
It is not a pleasant experience. I was a little in disbelief I think. I had talked to him only a few days before, when we had sat and had a beer and gone through the new album. And suddenly he’s gone.
Source: Kjetil Manheim Interview. Nettavisen (Online newspaper) 2016.
Courtesy of mayhem_chronicles
