Knjaz Varggoth

Knjaz Varggoth
Knjaz Varggoth
Also known as	Yevhen Hapon
Born	30 July 1974 (age 50)
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 known by his state name Knjaz Varggoth, is a Ukrainian guitarist, who performs in the black metal act Nokturnal Mortum.

Biography

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

Bands (in order of formation)

Suppuration

1992: Ecclesiastical Blasphemy

Crystaline Darkness

1993: Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto

Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra

1997: Midnight Fullmoon
1999: The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse

Nokturnal Mortum

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

2002: W.A.R

Vetche

1998: Vetche

Piorun

2004: Stajemy Jak Ojce

Temnozor

Live member

References

^ 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.

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[1] Figuring: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Incorporated. 26 November 2008. ISBN 978-0-546-70550-8.

[:0-2] 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.

[3] 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.

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