Knjaz Varggoth

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Knjaz Varggoth
Also known asYevhen Hapon
Born (1974-07-30) 30 July 1974 (age 49)
GenresBlack metal, Pagan metal
Instrument(s)Guitar
Years active1991–present
LabelsOriana
Osmose Productions
No Colours Records
The End Records
Nuclear Blast
Resistance Records

Yevhen Hapon (Ukrainian: Євген Гапон), 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]

Aryan Terrorism[edit]

  • 2002: W.A.R

Vetche[edit]

  • 1998: Vetche

Piorun[edit]

  • 2004: Stajemy Jak Ojce

Temnozor[edit]

Live member

References[edit]

  1. ^ Figuring: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Incorporated. 26 November 2008. ISBN 978-0-546-70550-8.
  2. ^ 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.
  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.