Necrobutcher

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Necrobutcher

| image = Mayhem, Summer Dying Loud 2024 24 (Necrobutcher portrait).jpg

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| birth_name = Jørn Stubberud

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| birth_place = Norway

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|4|13|df=y}}

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| genre = Black metal, death metal, thrash metal

| occupation = Bassist

| years_active = 1984–present

| current_member_of = Mayhem

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Jørn Stubberud (born 13 April 1968) is a Norwegian musician best known as the bassist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Necrobutcher. He is one of Mayhem's founding members, along with Euronymous and Manheim. He is the band's only remaining original member,{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p44861|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Mayhem|last=Huey|first=Steve|publisher=Allmusic|access-date=9 March 2010}} as Messiah and Manheim left Mayhem, respectively, in 1986 and 1988, and Euronymous was murdered in 1993. He has also played in other bands, including L.E.G.O., Kvikksølvguttene, Bloodthorn (guest artist),{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r819940|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview: Under the Reign of Terror|publisher=Allmusic|access-date=9 March 2010}} and Checker Patrol.

Musical career

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| quote = A tragic thing happened to my band — one of my best friends [Dead] killed himself. As I’m trying to cope with this, Euronymous tells me that he has taken photos of his dead body. I got very upset by this and I told him, ‘I’m going to beat you up, I’m going to kill you. Burn the photos before you even talk to me again.’ [Euronymous] didn’t give me any room to grieve. I was very mad at him, so when he was killed — he was my best friend for 10 years — I never cried over his death. Actually, I thought maybe the cops would think it was me who did it, because I had plans to kill him myself.

| source = Necrobutcher on Euronymous, as quoted by Graham Hartmann of Loudwire (October 16, 2019) [https://loudwire.com/mayhem-necrobutcher-planned-to-kill-euronymous/]

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Necrobutcher was in the band since 1984, but left in 1991 because of personal concerns following the suicide of former vocalist Dead as well as internal conflicts and disagreement with bandmate Euronymous. He was replaced as a session bassist by Varg Vikernes, who murdered Euronymous in 1993. In 1995, Necrobutcher reformed the band, along with Hellhammer, Maniac and Blasphemer. He still plays in Mayhem.

In 2018, he released his retrospective book about the early stages of the band, The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984–94,{{Cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/death-archives-mayhem-1984-94-jorn-necrobutcher-stubberud-book-review/|title=The Death Archives, Mayhem 1984-94 - Jørn 'Necrobutcher' Stubberud – Book Review|first=Mike|last=Ainscoe|date=27 October 2018}} published by Thurston Moore's publishing house Ecstatic Peace Library.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/necrobutcher-black-metal-book-excerpt/|title=Thurston Moore Is Putting Out Necrobutcher's Black Metal Book, 'The Death Archives'|first=Kim|last=Kelly|date=1 June 2016}}

During promotional interviews for the 2018's Daemon, Necrobutcher claimed he was "On [his] way to kill Euronymous but Varg beat [him] to it", and also claimed that the Norwegian Police were aware of Vikernes' plot to kill Euronymous, stating: "But little did I know that the Norwegian police already knew that Count Grishnackh [Varg] was going down also to kill him. Because they bugged his phone, and he actually talked about this killing before he went to Bergen so the cops already knew that he was coming, so they probably were thinking to themselves, ‘We didn’t nail this guy for the church burnings, so let’s nail him for murder, and get rid of this f–king guy in Oslo the same time.’ So that’s basically what happened."{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mayhems-necrobutcher-way-kill-euronymous-2557567|title=Mayhem's Necrobutcher: "I was on my way to kill Euronymous myself" | NME|website=NME |date=October 16, 2019}}

In 2019, he claimed that while he had intended to kill Euronymous, he had a change of heart after visiting him at his apartment several weeks before the murder actually took place. He recalled: "I’m such a fucking softy. He started to call me, and was like, I need to come to see him. In the end, I came to his apartment, listened to the Mysteriis album and he wanted to know if I wanted to return to the band. At that time, I thought maybe he’d thrown the photos away, because I never saw any, up until then. Two or three weeks later, he was killed."{{Cite web |last=Hartmann |first=Graham|date=2019-10-16 |title=Mayhem's Necrobutcher: I Planned to Kill Euronymous Myself |url=https://loudwire.com/mayhem-necrobutcher-planned-to-kill-euronymous/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}

Personal life

File:Jørn Stubberud aka Necrobutcher 2022 closer.jpg

Necrobutcher is an atheist.{{cite web|title=Interview: Necrobutcher (Mayhem) |date=16 July 2015 |url=https://kevinmaimann.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/interview-necrobutcher-mayhem}} He has a daughter and a grandson.{{cite AV media |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RF3B-RjWDg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/5RF3B-RjWDg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Los Bambinos del Satan - On the road with Mayhem' |publisher=NRK |date=Mar 17, 2017}}{{cbignore}}

Known for playing and representing black metal music for most of his career, he enjoys listening to mainstream bands like The Cult, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, The Police, Ministry, INXS, The Rolling Stones.{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXdhLeFV-g |title=Mayhem - What's in My Bag? |publisher=Amoeba Music |date=June 4, 2018}}

Discography

= Albums =

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994) (Songwriting)Mayhem. In: Slayer, no. 14, summer 2000, p. 77.{{Cite web|url=https://www.burzum.org/eng/library/2005_interview_metalcrypt.shtml|title=Interview with Varg Vikernes|website=www.burzum.org}}
Grand Declaration of War (2000)
Chimera (2004)
Ordo ad Chao (2007)
Esoteric Warfare (2014)
Daemon (2019)