Knjaz Varggoth

Yevhen Oleksandrovych Hapon (born 30 July 1974, known by his stage name Knjaz Varggoth) is a Ukrainian guitarist and singer, who performs in the black metal act Nokturnal Mortum.

Biography Yevhen Hapon was born 30 July 1974 in Kharkiv. He is one of the foremost figures in Eastern Europe black metal. Though he has been involved with numerous music projects and bands (Aryan Terrorism, Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, Lucifugum as a guest musician in 1997, Вече, and more), he is most well known for being the lead vocalist and guitarist for the controversial Ukrainian black metal band Nokturnal Mortum. Nokturnal Mortum gained their reputation performing symphonic black metal with elements of Ukrainian and Slavic folk music and for being a part of the eastern European NSBM scene.

A side project done by Varggoth is the ambient/black metal project Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, formed in 1994. The most famous album of this project, The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse, is most likely known particularly due to its long runtime (one 72-minute track) and combination of dark ambient and fast black metal.

Discography

Bands (in order of formation)

Suppuration 1992: Ecclesiastical Blasphemy

Crystaline Darkness 1993: Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto

Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra 1997: Midnight Fullmoon 1999: The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse

Nokturnal Mortum 1995: Twilightfall 1996: Lunar Poetry 1997: Goat Horns 1998: To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire 1999: Nechrist 2005: Weltanschauung 2009: The Voice of Steel 2017: Verity

Aryan Terrorism 2002: W.A.R

Vetche 1998: Vetche

Piorun 2004: Stajemy Jak Ojce

Temnozor Live member