Written by Guest on 22.05.2006 at 07:54

vakshay, yo said that you have search for ages for bands similar to burzum, well why don´t you try WIGRID or STERBEND... i you want to know more about them why don´t you enter www.no-colours-records.de, you will find some interesting notes about them!! i think that wigrid only have two cd´s and sterbend only one...

Wigrid is just too similar to Burzum...but it doesn't have the same force.

On the other hand, I think you people are anticipating too much what will Varg do when he gets out of jail. I guess he could consider himself lucky if he doesn't get killed. And if he's smart enough, he will go spend some time with his daughter in some quiet place, before putting out a new release. And somehow, we all know that if he'll release some Black Metal again, it will be the end of Burzum...All these years have left a lot of traces...

@Gelu: Varg would never do a live show! He didn't even want to be known as being in Burzum when the band first started up.

weird ... i have an old tape titled "Burzum - Unreleased Demos" [1994,Misanthropy via Amazon Music] having
01.Rite of Cleansure
02.Depressive visions of the Cursed Warrior
03.Carnage Undivine (LIVE) <===!? song lasts 3:25min ...so i guess he did live shows

Well, I know he appeared live with other bands for a bit but 'Carnage Undivine' is not a Burzum track. At least not to my knowledge.

EDIT: "Burzum Unreleased Demos - (1994) (The last track (Carnage Undivine Live) is not made or played by Burzum (a "fake" track).)"

Souce: http://bibleproupdate1.com/Definitions/Burzum

So I knew it right then. I was amazed back a few years ago, that a major figure of norvegian BM never played live, still he managed to be one of the most well known bands of the genre. I liked him a while ago, didn't listen to him since then, cuz I really don't want to ruin my image of Burzum

"he he he !
A friend got Hvis Lyset for 18 dollars."

Can i steal it?

"I really don't want to ruin my image of Burzum "

What is this image of Burzum that you dont want to ruin?

sinsanity i agree with you wigrid is quite like burzum!! burzum will never be reached!!!

I'm thinking of buying a Burzum cd so far i've heard a track on BMRadio and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion.

Id delete 2 of those posts if i were you.....
As for a recommendation, try any of his black metal releases:
Filosofem
Det Som Engang Var
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Burzum-Aske

better, try all the releases, black metal or non-black metal....

Well, seeing his favourite bands seem to be "true norwegian black metal" i presumed he was after that. Then again, how can a TNBM'er not have heard Burzum?

Now that I kinda got into black metal I am interested in Burzum. The early albums are really cool, lots of emotion in the music!

@Mother-Anorexia: Yea about the posts damn school comps are slow as hell since that's overwith, I know the whole Varg story just that I haven't heard that much stuff seeing how iv'e gotten into BM pretty deeply over the past couple of months so haven't gotten i chance to get some cds as well as the factor that im broke and have no steady paying job. But thanks for the recommendations ill be out listening to some TNBM and TPDM.

I was positively surprised when I first bought 'Hvis Lyset Tar Oss'...one o' my friends said Burzum is extreme black and I expected the music to be just blast-beats and sick screaming with depressive synths all over. But no! Burzum struck my interest because of the diffrenet approach to "blackiness"....I can't explain it properly, but I'm sure you know! And I'd really like to find Varg's original albums as well...

>>Daru Jericho : well...i'm not surprised....i suppose burzum is a money-making machine for the media-gurus

"I was positively surprised when I first bought 'Hvis Lyset Tar Oss'...one o' my friends said Burzum is extreme black and I expected the music to be just blast-beats and sick screaming with depressive synths all over. But no! Burzum struck my interest because of the diffrenet approach to "blackiness"....I can't explain it properly, but I'm sure you know! And I'd really like to find Varg's original albums as well... "

Possibly the atmosphere of it made it different?

I certainly understand you... Burzum added a new dimenssion, that based in deep instead of just strong music. Varg created something totally unique at the time.

Filosofem vs Det Som Engang Var??
Whats everyone's opinions about these 2 albums in comparison to each other?

Det som engang var:

Pure memories of heathen soul, fantasy and time swalows eachather from beggining till the end hope in rebirth of magical paganism

Filosofem

From dark sckeptic to nihilistic Phylosophy about the possibility of truly living "det som engang var" ( u know the translation),wondering through the forests deprived of their hope in rebirth of magical paganism.

That's the short version...:-)

Ok.... that was good.... now which do you prefer?

it's hard to tell...I do not prefere some Burzum albums over other Burzum albums, but over other bands' albums. I cant really say which is better from these 2. They are both part of Burzum...it's like u want me to say what hand I would chop off, my left or my right, I need them both!:-)

Not an example i would have used.... but point was made Im leaning towards Filsofem, mainly because it was the first Burzum album i heard and also the one which confidentally blends ambient aspects into the music very well.

Burzum albums are outstanding, but sincerely I prefer "Burzum" espeacially the songs "War" & "My journey to the stars"

Written by Guest on 25.05.2006 at 14:50

Det som engang var:

Pure memories of heathen soul, fantasy and time swalows eachather from beggining till the end hope in rebirth of magical paganism

Filosofem

From dark sckeptic to nihilistic Phylosophy about the possibility of truly living "det som engang var" ( u know the translation),wondering through the forests deprived of their hope in rebirth of magical paganism.

My top two Burzum's album

mmm now that everyone's talking about Filosofem... I do think it's a very good album, it would probably the best by Burzum if not by the worthless instrumental, first advise of the pseudo-electronic instrumental shit that would came later.

The album would be perfect if it wasnt for Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität. I usually skip that song when listening to the album, it bores me greatly.

I would say Filosofem or Burzum (but damn I cant stand the song War ... worst song of all time)

I seem to be one of the few people who enjoys "Hlidskjalf" quite a lot. I've been getting into some ambient/folk stuff lately and Varg did a great job while being in a prison cell.

Written by Guest on 26.05.2006 at 16:00

Not an example i would have used.... but point was made Im leaning towards Filsofem, mainly because it was the first Burzum album i heard and also the one which confidentally blends ambient aspects into the music very well.

It's a great album.

( the woman on the cover plays an instrument VERY similar with romanian "bucium". did u know that?
I have no idea why Varg choose that picture, but
I think is a work of an norwegian painter in the late XIX th century, a romantic artist. Do you remember some statements on that? 'cause i don't)

Burzum is my absolute favorite band of all time. I remember when I first heard Burzum I thought black metal HAD to be endless blasting and the like....I thought all black metal sounded like Mayhem or Marduk and ended there. The album "Det Som en Gang Var" took be by surprise, this wasnt black metal how I knew it up to that point. It was midpaced and very emotional, dark without being "evil", with some of the most pained vocals I have heard. His other works are nothing short of amazing, but I dont think any of them hold a candle to DSEGV.