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’I think it was then that Euronymous discovered he had the power to influence people in any way he wanted,’ says Eithin, who worked in the store for the year that it was open for business and lived in an apartment at the back. ’If you have a group of people like that who are very close, they start to create their own rules, their own morals and, at the end of the day, end up with a twisted philosophy built on hatred and frustration towards the rest of society. It’s the archetypal way to create mass psychosis. A lot of people say it must have been the desire to rebel against Christianity and conformity in Norway. But I think it was just coincidence, people meeting each other at the right or wrong time.’