Varg was committed to the cause as Euronymous and dead before him, but Varg's commitment infused black metal Satanism with an even more toxic and racist ethno-nationalism.
But more importantly, I thought that they were imagining that, well, this isn't going to hurt anybody because there isn't really anything such as Satanism anyway, so we can kind of use this.
Not that Satanism didn't exist before, but it was always, you know, in secret or it was practiced very differently from the way my father practiced it.