rirapilled

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I have been in the ☕️🌊🌊 community for around 5ish years now, I’ve had plenty of blogs that ended up getting termed.

My previous account was ‘dkpilled’, I was spread around a for a bit in summe ‘25 due to me requesting rira’s autopsy report, where unfortunately i was informed they never performed one.

I have always been interested in music subcultures, and researching them. I just never made the posts before. I’m deciding to spread my focus a bit more this summer though.

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After moving to Lillehammer in 1990 at age 16, he joined the band Thorns as their drummer. 

He was a part of Thorns until 1992, when he moved to Oslo and joined the band Emperor.

Emperor Era

Faust became Emperor's permanent drummer in Autumn 1992, shortly after the release of Emperor’s demo “Wrath of the Tyrant” in May of the same year. They’d rehearse their positions in Notodden, Norway with Faust's arrival as their drummer allowing everyone to hone their skills. 

Faust performed on the 1993 demo also holding the name of “Emperor”. This was their first official release. This demo helped solidify them in the scene, and the sound and direction they would have moving forward.

Faust was also the drummer on Emperor’s full length debut album, “In the Nightside Eclipse” when recording took place in July 1993 at HM Studio in Oslo. It was released on February 21st 1994 by Candlelight Records. 

Faust on drums

In 1992, Faust got a job at Euronymous’s record shop named Helvete. Helvete was used as a meeting spot for the ‘inner circle’ of the black metal community there in Norway. 

Helvete, after its creation, quickly became a meeting place for those in the ‘inner circle’ of the black metal community, with figures like Faust, Varg Vikernes, Occultus and others. While this was technically not an official or formal group, the people who were considered a part of the circle are considered to be influential to the early second wave scene.

The 1992 Murder

On the night of  August 21st, 1992, Faust was walking home from a Pub in Lillehammer while visiting family. An older man named Magne Andreassen, while drunk, approached him and propositioned Faust for sex. This led to Faust agreeing to go to a secluded area in the park's wooded area. He then stabbed Andreassen 37 times. 

The next day he returned to Oslo where he told other members of the inner circle what happened, notably Euronymous and Varg Vikernes. 

Later that same year the three of them burned down Holmenkollen Chapel. 

Faust avoided capture until late 1993, after Varg's arrest for murdering Euronymous. After Varg was arrested, the police began investigating members of the Black Metal community which eventually led to the arrest of Faust in August 1993, where he then confessed to the killing and stated it was on impulse.

In 1994 Faust was on trial for the murder, where he was sentenced to 14 years for the murder which was standard for cases where there were no aggravating factors like multiple victims. 

Imprisonment Period

After sentencing in 1994, Faust was in prison up until 2003, being released 5 years early. While in prison Faust maintained contact with the black metal community and participated in multiple interviews.

He once stated “I have a lot of bad memories from the early times of my arrest of course like the custody, the trouble of accepting my situation and such…” -From: I Return to Darkness 'zine Issue #6 - FINLAND - Surma 1998 V.A.

Post-Prison Career

After his release in 2003, Faust made a return to music joining the band Scum as their drummer. In 2004, he co-founded the band Blood Tsunami which was thrash metal music, taking inspiration from 80s bands. 

Following this, he has joined a multitude of other bands, acting as a lyricist and drummer. In 2025, Faust reunited with Emperor, with them having a special performance at the ‘Beyond the Gates” festival, which is set to happen from July 29th - August 1st later this year. 

Despite his controversial life and past, Faust has remained in the music scene and kept connections with the black metal community. Kristian Espedal also known as Gaahl once stated Faust is the first person who supported him once he came out as gay. 

““[W]ithin metal, I think the metal community is one of the most open communities there is. I have never seen any disturbances there. Of course, they are linking things back to the early days with Dissection and Faust and Emperor. The first person to send me a message after the media caught up with me being gay, was Faust. He sent me a message of support. So people can imagine whatever they want, I don’t know anyone in the Norwegian black metal scene that is against gays. It’s an extremely liberal scene.” -Gaahl 2019