Norwegian guitarist and composer

Rune Eriksen

Rune Eriksen, also known by his stage name Blasphemer, is a Norwegian musician best known as the former guitarist and songwriter of black metal band Mayhem. He took his stage name from a Sodom song and joined Mayhem in October 1994, before departing the band in late 2008. Eriksen founded his solo project RUÏM in 2020 and is currently a member of Aura Noir, Earth Electric, and the multinational bands Twilight Of The Gods and Vltimas, the former initially being a Bathory tribute band and the latter being a supergroup with former Morbid Angel vocalist David Vincent and drummer Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy. Eriksen and Mounier has previously been a part of death metal artist Nader Sadek's band along with Steve Tucker of Morbid Angel.

Born

1975

January 13

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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-27 Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
532 The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.
1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement by the Spanish of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands who had converted, or were converting to, Christianity, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England.

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When Rune arrived

april 13 Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
april 17 The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
april 19 India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
april 19 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.

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Art Ross 1886–1964 Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886) Edmund White 1940–2025 American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (died 2025) Marc Staal 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Marco Pantani 1970–2004 Italian cyclist (born 1970) Michael Peña 1976– American actor Orlando Bloom 1977– English actor Paul Feyerabend 1924–1994 Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (born 1924) Penelope Ann Miller 1964– American actress Robert Stack 1919–2003 American actor (died 2003)

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