Murder Conviction
On 21 August 1992, Eithun stabbed Magne Andreassen to death in a forest just outside Lillehammer. Eithun claimed that, while walking in the newly-built Olympic park, Andreassen had approached him and suggested they take a walk in the nearby forest. Eithun agreed and claims that, once in the forest, Andreassen made sexual advances. Eithun then stabbed him and fled. Police initially had no suspects, and he remained free for about a year. The murder, however, was an 'open secret' within the early Norwegian black metal scene.
When Faust was arrested in 1993, some in the media speculated that the murder was related to black metal, Satanism or fascism, but Eithun later said that he "was never a Satanist or fascist in any way". In a 1993 interview he had said "I am not a Satanist, but I praise the evil". In an interview for the book Lords of Chaos (1998) he explained he had been "interested in Satanism but there are other things as well. Basically, I don't give a shit". Kjetil Manheim was a friend of Eithun at the time, and later remarked "the situation that Faust was in wasn't a good experience. He felt that he was attacked". Jørn Tunsberg of the band Hades Almighty said that the murder was "an impulse killing" and that "it had nothing to do with black metal". In 1994, Eithun was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment, but was released in 2003 after serving nine years and four months.
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