Edited sentence: The combination of this murder, his previous arson attacks on churches and the scene surrounding him at the time led to his bad reputation.This claim is widely believed by metal magazines, musicians and others inloved in metal music, and is largely thrown out of proportion, the British Metal magazine metal hammer labelling him as a "scummy nazi murderer", and another future publishings magazine Classic rock calling him an "evil geezer".This is debatable however, as Varg himself has a detailed account of what happened, and it seems that the murder was not premedtitated, and he is in fact not a nazi, or a satanist as many wrongly believe, but is a neo pagan, and as a neo pagan, he does not believe in the Christian concept of "evil