Knjaz Varggoth
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Knjaz Varggoth | |
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Also known as | Yevhen Hapon |
Born | 30 July 1974 |
Genres | Black metal, Pagan metal |
Instrument | Guitar |
Years active | 1991–present |
Labels | Oriana Osmose Productions No Colours Records The End Records Nuclear Blast Resistance Records |
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Hapon (Ukrainian: Євген Олександрович Гапон, Russian: Евгений Александрович Гапон, romanized: Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Gapon), also spelled Eugeny Gapon and Ievgen Gapon, better known by his stage name Knjaz Varggoth, is one of the foremost figures in Eastern European black metal and far-right musicians. He is also known to Russians as Yevgeny Gaponovich Gaponovskiy (Евгений Гапонович Гапоновский) or Genka for short.
Biography
[edit]Yevhen Hapon was born 30 July 1974. He is better known by his stage name Knjaz Varggoth.
Knjaz Varggoth is one of the foremost figures in Eastern Europe black metal and far-right musicians.[1] Though he has been involved with numerous music projects and bands (Aryan Terrorism,[2] Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, Lucifugum as a guest musician in 1997, Вече, and more), he is most well known for being the lead vocalist and guitarist for the controversial Ukrainian black metal band Nokturnal Mortum. Nokturnal Mortum gained their reputation performing symphonic black metal with elements of Ukrainian and Slavic folk music and for being a part of the eastern European NSBM scene.
A side project done by Varggoth is the ambient/black metal project Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, formed in 1994. The most famous album of this project, The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse, is most likely known particularly due to its long runtime (one 72-minute track) and combination of dark ambient and fast black metal.
Knjaz Varggoth also formed the Neo-Nazi hatecore group Aryan Terrorism.[2]
Discography
[edit]Bands (in order of formation)
[edit]Suppuration
[edit]- 1992: Ecclesiastical Blasphemy
Crystaline Darkness
[edit]- 1993: Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra
[edit]- 1997: Midnight Fullmoon
- 1999: The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse
Nokturnal Mortum
[edit]- 1995: Twilightfall
- 1996: Lunar Poetry
- 1997: Goat Horns
- 1998: To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
- 1999: Nechrist
- 2005: Weltanschauung
- 2009: The Voice of Steel
- 2017: Verity[3]
Aryan Terrorism
[edit]- 2002: W.A.R
Vetche
[edit]- 1998: Vetche
Piorun
[edit]- 2004: Stajemy Jak Ojce
Temnozor
[edit]Live member
References
[edit]- ^ Figuring: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Incorporated. 26 November 2008. ISBN 978-0-546-70550-8.
- ^ a b DiVita, Joe (7 March 2022). "Russian Attack Destroys Metal Merch Shop With Racist Affiliations". Loudwire. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
- ^ Team, Metal-Rules com UK (21 July 2017). "Nokturnal Mortum – Interview with Knjaz Varggoth". Metal-Rules.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.