Great video. On the drums sounding programmed on Belus and Fallen - he had a video up on his old channel talking about making those albums in which he said he didn't have the stamina for playing full songs on drums anymore so he recorded one bar of each beat needed then looped it, so they're real drums but they end up sounding programmed for that reason. Never heard of anyone else doing that before - I agree it doesn't sound great on the albums so I guess that's why.
Hey Lineswax! I have a recommendation of which I don't know if you have ever checked them. It's about the first Himsa album, groundbreaking ceremony. It's basically a totally different band than all of their other work, only the bassist part of this album is part of the later Himsa. It sounds as if Pig Destroyer and Mr Bungle had a child that was raised by wolves. I hope you enjoy it and thanks once again for another fire vid!
Thanks for the recommendation! I feel the name Himsa was around a lot at some point in the past but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them, I’ll have to check them out!
@@linesinwax4996 They were one of the first metal bands I got into. The songs Kiss or Kill and the Great Depression were .mp3's on my middle school mp3 player (of a grand 32 songs). I never understood why the songs were so different, almost as if they were two totally different bands. They are. I'm very curious to what you think of the album, on metallum some idiot gave it a mere 10% out of 100, showing not everyone has the time to take note of the album as it is intended. I think its too often forgotten, and it deserves some better attention. I hope you like it and I would love to hear what you think of it.
he even did all the other instruments like that as well, which required some listens for me to get used to, but Keliohesten makes up for it entirely. also love the effect it gives on the quick guitar solo in Sverddans
I was waiting for a "lets find out". I remember running up manmoel mountain in the snow listening to Burzum. I wonder if Burzum a lot of the material sounds similar because Digby Pearson said when he met varg he played him the demo tapes for his next 3 records, so it was all written around the same time. Also in relation to Earache Varg became too hot to handle basically Kerrang threatened to blacklist them and Napalm death, Godflesh, cathedral etc threatened to leave the label if they signed Varg (probably something to do with their anarcho punk backgrounds) so hence why earache never signed burzum.
I missed a golden opportunity with the “let’s find out” haha I knew Earache flirted with signing Burzum but I did not know about the “boycott” from other Earache bands. Very interesting, and not at all surprising, I suppose. Cheers!
Love Burzum out of all the bands of that time he had a very distinct sound and style.. The only other band with their own take and sound on Black Metal was Emperor. My fav Burzum album has to be Hvis lyset tar oss - there is something about this album which resonates with me. I agree Darkthrone Transylvania Hunger is a classic. I got the original copy of Aske on CD found it in a second hand shop bought it for £5 😂 now it's worth way more than that
This might sound like the cliché to end all clichés, but I really stopped caring after Filosofem. As much as I hate Varg for all the resons everyone and their mother, sister and father's brother's uncle's former roommate know, his first 4 albums and Aske are unbeatable.
Burzum "and Dissection 😆" was my gateway in as even tough Burzum is low fi outside of the vocals its not hard on the ears for a beginner but very melodic and do to Vargs skill level on the drum beeing very basic the whole became just "classic" PERFECT. With few exeption the drums are the one death metal technical "not driven by emotion , soul ,natural primitive elements, but to show off within their "sport"" it can work when drummers like Fenriz are behind the kit but most others are playing like a machine making shure to live up to the rule book"clishes" at every turn. Music is art not a extreme sport
Just for being a little bit of a smart arse here: all the titles on Folosofem are in german originally, not norwegian. In fact there are a lot of Burzum songs with german titles. "Fallen" for example isn´t past progressive english, its "falling" in german. With Vargs ideologies in mind think of that what ever you want. (BTW I´m geramn so I know). That aside, great video on on of the greatest bands Black Metal has to offer. For me its: 1. Filosofem 2. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss 3. Burzum/Aske Everything after he went to jail or made in jail I don´t care for at all. He fell of.
you should make an ameseours video man, great band with a sound close to lifelover. if either those two bands stuck around for longer it would have started a new genre also youve got great videos i just watched a load of them
As far as i'm aware, varg dropped the guitar because he started to say that it was a black instrument and rock was negro music, and because of this he didnt want to have any ties with it anymore. Not criticizing you or anyone that listens to burzum (god knows that I listen to a lot of grey area facist/nazi music too) but thats why is difficult to say that you cant ignore the artist and just focus on the music, a lot of the stuff the person believes is there hidden between the lines too, both in the lyrics and in the instruments he chooses to play.
The guy is problematic as fuck man, for sure, that’s why I tried to focus entirely on the music and not address that too much. Everyone addresses that Varg is a wasteman. It’s been done to death. Not that I have a monopoly on talking about Burzum’s albums, but they mean a lot to me so I wanted to talk about them. I’ve been back and forth about whether I should make this video or not, but in the end it’s up to the individual whether to “engage” with the art of Burzum or not. Neither approach is incorrect IMO. Cheers for your insightful comment man. I appreciate everything that you’ve said right there. (BTW I do not believe in separating the art from artist. Been meaning to do a wider video on this and the problem with black metal / NSBM as a whole but I’ve struggled to find the right words that won’t just land me in hot water haha)
I found his last two albums to lack the Burzum magic. The monotonous melodies are not transcendental like previous albums but simply boring and too long.
i was hoping this video would illuminate me on why people like Burzum but i still don't get it, I just find him boring, maybe he was a victim of his own success and since he sticks to black metal tradition so much it just kind of becomes generic, when a lot of people think of black metal they think burzum but i think that ends up being for the worse because it becomes just "well, its black metal...". His ambient stuff had some cool ideas, but overall others did it better. I think that's the general problem with burzum, he did some cool stuff in the beginning but (for me) it wasn't good enough to continue to stick out through the years and others have just done it better since. I feel like if burzum wasn't one of the OG's he would go largely unnoticed
I miss his karate videos 🕺
Is he on any other platforms his content was really funny.
Death In June was the warm up.
We need a “Politics of Burzum” video 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
Bulitics of Porzum
great video man love your content
Thank you!
funny how you say you wont learn norwegian and then proceed to perfectly pronounce "det som en gang var", great video as always
LOL thank you
Great video. On the drums sounding programmed on Belus and Fallen - he had a video up on his old channel talking about making those albums in which he said he didn't have the stamina for playing full songs on drums anymore so he recorded one bar of each beat needed then looped it, so they're real drums but they end up sounding programmed for that reason. Never heard of anyone else doing that before - I agree it doesn't sound great on the albums so I guess that's why.
Wow, I didn’t know that, thank you. I wonder if that was a deciding factor in stopping the “metal” side of Burzum.
Hey Lineswax!
I have a recommendation of which I don't know if you have ever checked them. It's about the first Himsa album, groundbreaking ceremony. It's basically a totally different band than all of their other work, only the bassist part of this album is part of the later Himsa.
It sounds as if Pig Destroyer and Mr Bungle had a child that was raised by wolves. I hope you enjoy it and thanks once again for another fire vid!
Thanks for the recommendation! I feel the name Himsa was around a lot at some point in the past but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them, I’ll have to check them out!
You’ve really sold me on the description there haha
@@linesinwax4996 They were one of the first metal bands I got into. The songs Kiss or Kill and the Great Depression were .mp3's on my middle school mp3 player (of a grand 32 songs). I never understood why the songs were so different, almost as if they were two totally different bands. They are.
I'm very curious to what you think of the album, on metallum some idiot gave it a mere 10% out of 100, showing not everyone has the time to take note of the album as it is intended. I think its too often forgotten, and it deserves some better attention.
I hope you like it and I would love to hear what you think of it.
22:35 - it's real drums played by varg but he recorder only like a few measures and then copypasted them
so it's kind of inbetween xDDD
he even did all the other instruments like that as well, which required some listens for me to get used to, but Keliohesten makes up for it entirely. also love the effect it gives on the quick guitar solo in Sverddans
I'm on a Burzum binge at the moment and this review perfectly complements it! I'm on Filosofem atm, might just skip the next entry ha-ha :'D
Burzum shirt is fine. Every gig I go to I wear my hvis lyset tar oss shirt and the only people who have said anything complimented it
I was waiting for a "lets find out". I remember running up manmoel mountain in the snow listening to Burzum. I wonder if Burzum a lot of the material sounds similar because Digby Pearson said when he met varg he played him the demo tapes for his next 3 records, so it was all written around the same time. Also in relation to Earache Varg became too hot to handle basically Kerrang threatened to blacklist them and Napalm death, Godflesh, cathedral etc threatened to leave the label if they signed Varg (probably something to do with their anarcho punk backgrounds) so hence why earache never signed burzum.
I missed a golden opportunity with the “let’s find out” haha
I knew Earache flirted with signing Burzum but I did not know about the “boycott” from other Earache bands. Very interesting, and not at all surprising, I suppose.
Cheers!
"Dying in a vat of mids and trebles" is incredible 😂😂
Love Burzum out of all the bands of that time he had a very distinct sound and style.. The only other band with their own take and sound on Black Metal was Emperor.
My fav Burzum album has to be Hvis lyset tar oss - there is something about this album which resonates with me. I agree Darkthrone Transylvania Hunger is a classic.
I got the original copy of Aske on CD found it in a second hand shop bought it for £5 😂 now it's worth way more than that
Wow! Very lucky find indeed, very nice.
@@linesinwax4996 it was by pure chance and I wasn't particularly looking for black metal and boom there it was 🤣.
i do believe you said this whole video in one breath. lol.
welcome to wales!
The entire thing was recorded outside a pub at 9pm during a cigarette break when some poor soul made the mistake of asking “do you like Burzum?”
This might sound like the cliché to end all clichés, but I really stopped caring after Filosofem. As much as I hate Varg for all the resons everyone and their mother, sister and father's brother's uncle's former roommate know, his first 4 albums and Aske are unbeatable.
Thats a fact.
I don't care, i live in Europe and i wear Burzum t-shirts all the time, i have many of them!🤘
Burzum "and Dissection 😆" was my gateway in as even tough Burzum is low fi outside of the vocals its not hard on the ears for a beginner but very melodic and do to Vargs skill level on the drum beeing very basic the whole became just "classic" PERFECT.
With few exeption the drums are the one death metal technical "not driven by emotion , soul ,natural primitive elements, but to show off within their "sport"" it can work when drummers like Fenriz are behind the kit but most others are playing like a machine making shure to live up to the rule book"clishes" at every turn.
Music is art not a extreme sport
Just for being a little bit of a smart arse here: all the titles on Folosofem are in german originally, not norwegian. In fact there are a lot of Burzum songs with german titles. "Fallen" for example isn´t past progressive english, its "falling" in german. With Vargs ideologies in mind think of that what ever you want. (BTW I´m geramn so I know).
That aside, great video on on of the greatest bands Black Metal has to offer.
For me its:
1. Filosofem
2. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
3. Burzum/Aske
Everything after he went to jail or made in jail I don´t care for at all. He fell of.
You’re absolutely right about the German titles on that album, I completely snoozed on that. Nice one!
Appreciate that you just stick to a critique of the music and leave the Lord of Chaos retread spectacle bull-shite by the wayside.
Got to man, all that stuff is overdone to death 💀 cheers!
As a synth player myself, I would probably promise you that the synth he used in prison is NOT analogue.😅
It sounds extremely early digital stuff
lol thank you for pointing that out and correcting me 😄
you should make an ameseours video man, great band with a sound close to lifelover. if either those two bands stuck around for longer it would have started a new genre
also youve got great videos i just watched a load of them
Thank you!
I’ve never heard of that band ill check them out, I appreciate the recommendation
As far as i'm aware, varg dropped the guitar because he started to say that it was a black instrument and rock was negro music, and because of this he didnt want to have any ties with it anymore. Not criticizing you or anyone that listens to burzum (god knows that I listen to a lot of grey area facist/nazi music too) but thats why is difficult to say that you cant ignore the artist and just focus on the music, a lot of the stuff the person believes is there hidden between the lines too, both in the lyrics and in the instruments he chooses to play.
The guy is problematic as fuck man, for sure, that’s why I tried to focus entirely on the music and not address that too much. Everyone addresses that Varg is a wasteman. It’s been done to death. Not that I have a monopoly on talking about Burzum’s albums, but they mean a lot to me so I wanted to talk about them. I’ve been back and forth about whether I should make this video or not, but in the end it’s up to the individual whether to “engage” with the art of Burzum or not. Neither approach is incorrect IMO.
Cheers for your insightful comment man. I appreciate everything that you’ve said right there.
(BTW I do not believe in separating the art from artist. Been meaning to do a wider video on this and the problem with black metal / NSBM as a whole but I’ve struggled to find the right words that won’t just land me in hot water haha)
i wouldnt say his music is nazi, he may be but the music is great.
I found his last two albums to lack the Burzum magic. The monotonous melodies are not transcendental like previous albums but simply boring and too long.
What do you make of the new “demos”?
i was hoping this video would illuminate me on why people like Burzum but i still don't get it, I just find him boring, maybe he was a victim of his own success and since he sticks to black metal tradition so much it just kind of becomes generic, when a lot of people think of black metal they think burzum but i think that ends up being for the worse because it becomes just "well, its black metal...". His ambient stuff had some cool ideas, but overall others did it better. I think that's the general problem with burzum, he did some cool stuff in the beginning but (for me) it wasn't good enough to continue to stick out through the years and others have just done it better since. I feel like if burzum wasn't one of the OG's he would go largely unnoticed
This music sucks 😂