The two got into a struggle and Vikernes stabbed Euronymous to death. Vikernes said he met Euronymous at the door and handed him the contract, but when he stepped forward and confronted Euronymous, Euronymous "panicked" and kicked him in the chest. Blackthorn stood outside smoking while Vikernes climbed the stairs to Euronymous’s apartment on the fourth floor.
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He said Euronymous planned to use a meeting about an unsigned contract to ambush him. But he just told a select group of friends, and one of them told me". Vikernes explains: "If he was talking about it to everybody and anybody I wouldn’t have taken it seriously. He says that Euronymous had plotted to stun him with an electroshock weapon, tie him up and torture him to death while videotaping the event. Vikernes denies all of these, claiming that he attacked Euronymous in self-defense. It has been speculated that the murder was the result of a power struggle, a financial dispute over Burzum records, or an attempt at "out doing" the stabbing in Lillehammer. At first, many blamed Swedish black metalers for the murder. His body was found on the stairs outside the apartment with 23 cut wounds – two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back.Steinke, Darcey. Upon their arrival a confrontation began and Vikernes fatally stabbed Euronymous. On the night of 10 August 1993, Vikernes and Snorre ‘Blackthorn’ Ruch drove from Bergen to Euronymous’s apartment at Tøyengata (English: Tøyen Street) in Oslo.
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After the Bergens Tidende episode, Euronymous decided to shut Helvete as it began to draw the attention of the police and media. In early 1993, animosity arose between Øystein Aarseth (‘Euronymous’) and Vikernes, and between Euronymous and the Swedish black metal scene.