Been listening to Black Metal since the mid 90's (after that infamous article in KERRANG magazine), and there are still no other bands that give me the same feeling as Burzum. Varg has said multiple times he wanted his songs to sound like spells, and that is exactly what I feel - each song, with its repetitive riffs and ambient atmosphere, feels like it's a meditative journey, putting the listener in a trance. there's just nothing else like Burzum.
Filosofem is such a great album. It's so cringe people trying to pretend Burzum albums are bad or not influential because of the creators ideology. The move away from Satanism is in itself a huge departure for that genre. You can hate Varg as a person, but I think the music is self evidently good.
Regarding Euronymous claiming to be a Stalinist, if you read what actual Stalinists believe, they are convinced that virtually everything negative that has been said about Stalin is built on lies and propaganda, and he was in fact a force for good. I believe 100% that Euronymous was being an edgelord in declaring himself a Stalinist.
Take the make up away from Euronymous and you'll see the goofiest most unserious edgelord you'll ever see. But Varg? That guy looks like evil incarnate.
Euronymous, stalinist? Based on what, one interview? He did also praise anal sex, was he gay? Stalin was a force of good? Give me a break. Dont talk about lies and propaganda to me in 2023. It is everywhere. Need a sunglasses, you know...
Of all the videos on Varg I have seen (and black metal controversy as a whole) this might be the most honest, respectful, and unbiased. A real discussion on his music and giving credit to his accomplishments, while not glossing over or diminishing the controversy surrounding him. No agenda in this video one way or the other, and letting everyone else's interpretations of him be seen as valid. I've watched and enjoyed your videos in the past but this is the one that made me think, "I should subscribe to this guy". Rarely have I seen this topic dealt with using as much care as you have. Great work.
Controversy? I don’t know if you can stil remember his UA-cam channel back in the day but the dude has a bunch of screws lose and that’s omitting the fact that he is a cold blooded murderer. Yeah, yeah I know this dude will never shut up how was just defending himself. He did this every 3rd video or so on Thulean perspective but man, I have no love for this dude. Influential? Achievements? Ripping off qourthon’s riff...is unforgivable. I never judged this guy for his murder but damn his self righteous indulgence on his UA-cam channel was the final straw and I
@@tmp1k Great to hear, was also my first, followed by "Dunkelheit" and "War", bought "Det som engang far" afterwards because this song was my favorite and still is
You almost said Dauði Baldrs right, while "ð" is often anglicized to make a D noise, a more accurate sound would be a humming "th" sound similar to "this" or "smooth." So the pronunciation would be more like "Dauthi Baldurs." Sorry if I come across as a know-it-all, I just find languages fascinating and thought I'd share since not a lot of people seem to be aware of this. Great video 👍
I like almost all Varg's 1992-94 music, but first four tracks from "Filosofem" album are absolute masterpieces. So raw and depressive. Forest black metal. Great video as aways! I've discovered lots of of interesting bands through your videos) Aspid rules!!!🤘
Once again, what a great video man! Since I discovered this band/project I have liked more the artist than the individual. It's a matter of subjectivity. I totally agree with you, this band/project is an important landmark in the Black metal culture. Those who hate this musical entity will have to learn to live with it .
Despite how much I dislike Varg as a person, I can't help but love his music and his music was really important to me during a period of my life. Death of the artist is only something I can't do if there's some truly extreme circumstances or aspects being rubbed in my face while listening to the music, but in most cases if the music is great then i can enjoy it for what it is.
He’s tricky. He’s an asshole, to be sure, and I would undoubtedly dislike him if I were to meet him but as an entertainer, He’s very good at his job and I can’t help but respect him.
Thanks for making these videos I’m new to black metal any metal tbh and I love learning more about the history and about the bands. I really love your videos 😊
Lmao I was not ready for the 'let's find out'. Burzum is probably my favourite band and loved to watch his channel. It was very calming with the ambient music in the background in the woods.
In Norse mythology, the Hliðskjálf (literally meaning the high seat with an expansive view) allowed Odin to see into all realms as well as listen to them.
Hlið means something like a gap and skjalf is a noun related to the verb skjalfa which means to quake or tremor. So together it's gap-tremor. I've seen websites define it as you have, as "high seat with an expansive view" but I have no clue where this comes from since the literal word means gap-tremor. No body really knows what hliðskjalf is supposed to refer to exactly but it definitely doesn't mean "high seat with an expansive view". Be very careful about what you read on Norse mythology and old Norse online. There's loads of bull crap out there. I'm not dogging you. I just so happened to know a bit about this so figured I'd share.
I think it says a lot about you as a youtuber that despite knowing all about burzum already, I was still interested to click on this and I paid attention through the entire thing. Another great video man, cheers!
23:50 This point exactly is why I consider Burzum to be the most important Black Metal band of all time, because these albums showed the rest of the world that there is so much more that you can do with the black metal blueprint than just aggression.
Filosofem immediately became one of my favorite albums when I heard it for the first time, Burzum really does sound like ancient dark magic radiating around you as you walk through a cold and isolated forest, it’s beautiful. Thanks to the Thulean Mysteries album, I was inspired to check out more dungeon synth artists like Depressive Silence, Örnatorpet, and Aindulmedir, and now dungeon synth is one of my favorite genres (I’m even working on my own project right now lol).
“Hvis Lyset Tar Oss” has to be my favourite album of his, mainly for the opening masterpiece that is the song “Det Som En Gang Var”, although it is difficult to choose. It is absolutely hypnotizing, and along with a handful of other artists, responsible for atmospheric and even DSBM sound we have afterwards. Love him or hate him, his influence is absolutely undeniable.
Yeah, we owe it to the excellent Grymyrk demo by Thorns. Without it, Burzum would most likely had sounded a lot different. "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is my favorite as well, I even had an BM project for a decade because of it. Then I came across the Grymyrk demo, and it is dead-on where Burzum got it's inspiration from.
@@Bolion23 Thorns for sure. Snorre has a new channel where he teaches some guitar tricks. Very cool to check out and he also interacts quite a bit in the comments.
I'm Norwegian. Yes, I enjoyed your attempts at Norwegian. And yes, I respect you for attempting it :P Especially Dauði Baldrs. Thank you for an amazing video, done exceptionally well in all aspects, really.
Nice video! Burzum is where it all started for me and will always love the music (both ambient and bm). I really loved the instrumental he uploaded as a goodbye to his "metal sound" called "Back to the Shadows'. Varg had the ability to make monotonous riffs sound like pure magic
Most of those people from my experience seen to hate all new waves of black metal or even the blackened style anything.. I personally love some of the newer bands utilizing a lot of it. They seem to hate a lot of NSBM and DSBM as well.
Brilliant video, thoroughly enjoyed it, your detail and unbiased analogy of burzum is brilliant, really enjoyed this as a burzum fan, once again great video, thankyou
Great video as always, long but worth the watch! Controversy aside, this is the band that got me into black metal, and especially those early albums will always be legendary to me. Btw what is the band on the shirt?
Very well thought out,researched and carefully worded ( lol ) review of Varg and Burzum. Thoroughly enjoyed how you put forth two concurrent aspects of Varg. That being the musical entity and the human entity. While stressing bullet points on both fronts you didnt fall into the judgemental trap. Thank you
I know you and I had a bit of a disagreement about Varg's beliefs the other day in a certain video's comment section (that's ok; it happens!), but I can push that all aside and say this about Burzum: I really think the simplicity of a lot of Burzum albums is honestly its greatest appeal. Varg knew how to write some catchy keyboard hooks that could get stuck in your head for days (see: Dunkelheit). And the "Burzumic" influence in black metal continues on to the present day with projects like Hemodr and Faidra really taking musical influence from Filosofem and the album preceding it.
The background album in this video is Haxan Cloak Excavation. Great video by the way. P.S. Really wish he released another album instead of all these film scores.
I don't understand how people get so emotionally invested in hating controversial characters... there's assholes all around us, all the time. In our work place, families, friends circle. And most people will hide behind the statu quo in order to avoid confrontation and disruption within these circles, but when an artist or musician does bad stuff or hold controversial views, they're all over the place and openly vocal about their feelings towards that person. It's actually ok to enjoy someone's body of work even though you don't agree with that person's views. And it's even ok to dislike that person without getting so emotionally invested into aggressively hating that person.
You make a VERY good point. People tolerate the worst behaviour and views if it's from their family and friends. But they want to cancel people from the face of the earth they never spoke to. They are afraid, lazy, hypocritical and deep inside they are ashamed.
I quite liked the Self-titled album with My Journey to the Stars also being my favorite song. You also had a very similar take as me on his self-defense situation. I do kind of believe him in saying it was self-defense but the situation was strange. He did seem pro-active in his self defense rather than reactive which is why he got into trouble. But yea people always fail to mention how hated Euronomous was and I still partially blame him for what happened with dead, then the pictures and skull fragments really make me dislike him. I actually like the ambient and folk albums as well. I think his music has great atmosphere being calming and simplistic while also being simple. Just like his black metal albums as well. And I also really like Fallen and Umskiptar a lot as well. For the end I’m not sure that his influence can ever diminish because of how prominent and well written his music is. His music is legendary and it’s like trying to talk about heavy metal without Black Sabbath or pop without Michael Jackson. His music has influenced a ton of bands and I’ve seen DSBM bands point to Key to the Gate as the first DSBM song ever made. I think regardless of how you see his views, he has to be at least viewed as a great black metal artist in how influential he is. Im unsure but in the end his music will live on even after he’s gone in my opinion.
This is again a great vid. nothing left out. good details.... Yet id like to point out that just a day ago you were commenting in the latest metal meltdown vid that just talking about him and crediting him towards the far right gives him unnessecary exposue... and yet here we are giving him exposure right afterwards. I love both of yall nonetheless but ehm... yea i dont know what my point is but im sure yall know what i mean. At least you acknowledge that yourself in the end.
Yeah I get what you’re saying and as I stated towards the end of the video I am a bit of a hypocrite. While you can call me guilty for giving the project attention I still want to express how I think people who hate Burzum make him relevant even when Varg doesn’t do any sort of marketing for the project. I was planning for weeks to do this video so it just so happened his stuff got recommended on my feed. Personally I think he just needs to discuss Burzum differently is all. Consistently making a video about Burzum multiple times and calling Varg a neo Nazis every sentence isn’t helping what he’s trying to accomplish. Again I get why he hates Varg and he has every right to but it’s kinda a little sad to see someone do the same thing and expect different results.
@@wyattxhim Agreed. I prefer your approach too. And its definitly the case that those who hate him do his marketing for him just as much as those who like his art. Its a loose loose situation kinda and it will always be like that. Even Vargs eventual death will probably just propell him even further. Nothing can/ will change that. Hes a phenomenon, good and horrible.
My favourite band/project ever. Found them as a young teen like everyone else getting into black metal, but with age I’ve found more enjoyment in the ambient albums. Especially Thulean Mysteries. Like you mention he has a way through repetition and unconventional song structures to create soundscapes that are entrancing and almost like a real world magic.
I used to be one of those guys that hated Burzum despite never even listening to a single song because of what Varg did. But once I decided to give Filosofem a listen just to hear what the fuss was about I immediately shut my mouth because I was just so taken in with how engaging and hypnotic it was, and after checking out his other albums Burzum immediately became one of my favorites.
Is it correct to say that, given the obvious differences, Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa is the Burzum of baroque music and Ezra Pound is the Burzum of poetry?
@@THICCTHICCTHICCThat's why I've said "given the obvious differences". I just founded this tag "the Burzum of X" fun, as Burzum is quite possibly the most iconic/popular example of "good art bad artist". My sentence is just a humorous association of ideas.
Im brazillian, i like burzum. Before i hated varg, varg hated me and all people i know, and i can seperate art from the artist BUT i will never support IN ANY WAY him. When he said on twitter that all brazillians are UNDERMENCH or whatever, a bunch of brazillian metalheads started sending him a pic of a black guy named vampeta naked ( aka vampetaço) and he got mad and closed his account. I know that for most of you guys this is just bullshit chud shit, but here in brazil even a mayhem concert was cancelled due to all the allegations of racism and shit, and i dont like to be like "oh u see thats not actual racism or whatever is just edgy" if that posture goes against my fucking existance, even tho i like mayhem. Anyway, great video as allways, i really fucking love ur channel. SALVE BRAZILEIRADA Q TA LENDO
lol funny thing is that Brazil, along with Mexico, India and the Philippines have some of the highest levels of white supremacy and natsoc posting haha
it bothers you cause you are used to seeing them as real life. in reality no one can say you what to say, you can go out and talk about it and listen the musc publicly etc. the stupid platforms of some rich programmers arent reality. remember when people didnt even put their names in there. relax, its a good thing if social media become crap, then maybe a few ppl will step outside at last xd
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613 imagine a CD can turns you into someone else, crazy uh ! We all have a connexion to internet and therefore can google the name. We can make our mind for ourselves, and choose to buy it or not.
I adore all 13 Burzum albums. The debut is what got me into Black Metal as a whole, blew my mind and made me a fan for life. Then Hvis Lyset Tar Os cemented my love for the genre so much deeper. All of his ambient/folk albums opened my mind in other ways, to appreciating the beauty in subtle and simplistic music. His heavier stuff and his ambient stuff together for me makes such a beautiful, sorrowful atmosphere that takes me away to a different world every time I listen to them. Still to this day when I have free time I get the urge to just listen to all 13 Burzum albums back to back (though in varying order) while I just let my mind wonder. Usually play a simple game like Minecraft or some RPG just to have something to do with my hands/eyes while I listen and get lost in the world of Burzum. Varg may not be a "good" guy and I may not agree with a lot of what he says, but I respect his art and respect that he has views he's passionate about and mean something to him, which reflects in his music.
Euronymous became the sacrifice, which he spoke into existence when talking about and detailing killing varg as a snuff film, to propel black metal to it's next state.
I really enjoyed this video of yours, as always. This may seem a bit nitpicky by me, but "Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität" is German and your translation isn't wrong, but you could also interprete it as "Touring/going around the transcendental pillar of singularity".
Wikipedia gives the translation: Circumambulation of the Transcendental Columns of Singularity I've never heard "Circumambulation" before, but it sounds cool as fuck ;D
Wyatt has been making great vids for years now, keep it up! Also, every day you look more like Brandon Herrera the AK Guy hahahah, im going to message him to encourage a crossover vid :)
Something I find interesting about Fantoft is it's now the most profitable stave church in Norway. I went last year and got engaged there! We paid to go into the church. It’s a beautiful building, and honestly, I think Varg did them a favour.
I don't think Emperor tends to be overlooked, they're a pretty legendary band. I wish we had more than one album in the style of their first In The Nightside Eclipse. That album was their best imo.
I find Varg fascinating and that goes for the music, mostly ambient releases, and his personality. Although i dont agree with most of his actions in real life and his visions of the world, its still interesting point of his life. I dont like black metal at all, but Burzum is so strange entity, that got me to listen to such music, even if only as an experiement. And thanks for very informative vid!
I always considered Burzum as the most important Black Metal act along with Mayhem and Thorns, these 3 bands invented what Black Metal today is musically. Ideologically, to me, it doesn't really matter, but Bathory has contributed just to that and the overall sound/production side of things. Blackthorn and Euronymous however developed a distinct style which Varg reworked into a whole different thing, with songs like My Journey To The Stars, Key To The Gate, the vocals lay ground to Depressive side of Black Metal, and later he even pioneered Atmospheric Black Metal. I think, despite everything(history, ideologies...), Varg is THE most important musician for Black Metal. The credit always goes to wrong people for some reason.
Varg didn't want to tag his music “Black Metal” because he claimed that Burzum had nothing to do with the “traitors” of the Norwegian scene and he didn't wanted to fall in the same place as them, but it will never change the fact that he is one of the pioneers for that genre. The murd4r of Euronymous made him the objective of all the hatred in the Black Metal scene as a whole for obvious reasons. Plus, he even claimed that Burzum has never been a Metal project and that his music is just “Scaldic music” (whatever that means). He has stated many different things contradicting himself a million times, so, what he says doesn't really matter at all tbh.
from what I understand, "scaldic music" had something to do with "keeping it aryan". don't quote me on that though, I'm not sure of this. i read it off encyclopedia metallum
I was wondering if the general backlash against the burning of the Fantoft Stave Church is also due to the fact that that church was an old monument (I think it was built around the XII century), therefore something meaningful for the cultural history of Norway.
Minor nitpick but Euronymous actually didn’t use dead’s suicide photo for Dawn of the black hearts it was another random person from Brazil I think who made the compilation
That is true ! What I was trying and should of said was even though Euronymous didn’t physically print the bootlegs is that he’s still the reason the photo exists and basically planted the seeds for the bootleg existing
There's another track you can find on youtube that Varg uploaded to his old channel entitled "Back to the Shadows". He described it as the "last black metal track" he would do. It went up around 2013 after Umskiptar, and other channels have uploaded it since then. Worth a listen.
Hah, few months ago when I was editing a documentary video concerning Yugoslav Wars in my hometown I used Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte as a background track and it fit it perfectly.
I liked his UA-cam channel. He was very entertaining. Great humor and interesting subjects. A very contradicting man. Socialist but wanted independence, heathen but christian positions.
The Ambient style of music he was essentially making, especially in prison, was pure Dungeon Synth. There's a whole genre with that kind of style, medieval folky stuff.
He also became more popular because Gucci mane sampled a burzum song. So I’m down here in Miami and a kid with a Gucci mane or lil Wayne shirt will be chilling with a edge teen that has a burzum or dark throne shirt. Lol 😅 they probably don’t know a single song but it’s funny to see it.
Varg was an interesting guy. Interviews from Abbath and Atilla kind of point in the direction that he actually was a very good guy prior to the 90s. Abbath mentioned how he would wear death t shirts which opposed his takes on death metal later on, and Atilla also mentioned how him and Euronymous used to live together briefly. Weird dude. Good music.
I believe that him and Fenriz being really good buddies fed their ideologies. They had the exact same view on a lot of things and they created music to fit it. FUCK TRENDS. they all like death metal, liars haha
I think Varg once said that War is a tribute for Bathory, because Bathory was one of his favorite bands and one of the biggest inspiration at the time.
You are very much correct when you state that Varg's relevancy is here to stay. I think you would need a timemachine and a box of condoms to make it go away. Those first 4 albums are so good and influential, there's just no way to scratch that out of the public consciousness. As for the murders and church burnings, without those, black metal would've still been the marginal thing it was in the early 90's underground. I am old enough to remember it all blowing up, the articles and coverage, and people's reactions to it. It catapulted this grainy, obscure and sometimes odd fringe style into the spotlight in a none too subtle manner, creating an earthquake in the metal underground. Up to that point death metal had been the reigning force, but it had become stale, polished and boring, as well as way too technical for its own good (with all these things being neatly exemplified in Cynic's debut album, but that's not the point here). Suddenly there was this abrasive, aggressive and dangerous style of metal, with all these crazy stories behind it, so it was not a surprise it blew up the way it did. And as a last: my fav Burzum album is "Hvis lyset tar oss". Awesome album.
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Burzum claiming it’s just heavy metal is like lemmy always claiming Motörhead is just a rock n roll band.
Sounds about right.
Well I mean except for like maybe the first album, Burzum isn't even real black metal.
Burzum literally has ambient drones through all his shit
A "punk band with a metal sound"
Motorhead is a rock n roll band.
Not going to lie the fact that he said he would rather go to prison than hang out with metalheads is so damn funny 🤣
can you blame him? lmao
I understand him
Yet his market he makes a living off is what?? Metal. You idiots.
Most of them are losers and flag lovers
cant blame him, the typical common metalhead nowadays are stupid insufferable morons.
Lets find out
Loooool
Exactly he says that in the beginning lol
😂😂😂hell yeah 💯 I miss ol varg lol
He's still on the internet, hard to find
A lot of galaxy brains in here
Been listening to Black Metal since the mid 90's (after that infamous article in KERRANG magazine), and there are still no other bands that give me the same feeling as Burzum.
Varg has said multiple times he wanted his songs to sound like spells, and that is exactly what I feel - each song, with its repetitive riffs and ambient atmosphere, feels like it's a meditative journey, putting the listener in a trance. there's just nothing else like Burzum.
Midnight Odyssey close 2nd for me.
After reading this, please try listening to a German black metal musician called Grausamkiet
@@canadiansoviet ah yes
What Burzum would sound like if Varg was on heroin.
Filosofem is such a great album. It's so cringe people trying to pretend Burzum albums are bad or not influential because of the creators ideology. The move away from Satanism is in itself a huge departure for that genre. You can hate Varg as a person, but I think the music is self evidently good.
@@PalaceMidasTVtoo damn good. Dude was ahead of his time. He hates himself for being that damn good. 🤣
Thanks for clarifying that Euranymous wasn't a saint for these die hard euranymous stans
He was a flag minus the L
He was a very sad little man if you piece together the things he said and did.
Sociopath wouldn't be a stretch.
Regarding Euronymous claiming to be a Stalinist, if you read what actual Stalinists believe, they are convinced that virtually everything negative that has been said about Stalin is built on lies and propaganda, and he was in fact a force for good. I believe 100% that Euronymous was being an edgelord in declaring himself a Stalinist.
Take the make up away from Euronymous and you'll see the goofiest most unserious edgelord you'll ever see. But Varg? That guy looks like evil incarnate.
Stalinists are edgelords anyway
@@eliasmg9144real edgelord.😊
Euronymous, stalinist? Based on what, one interview? He did also praise anal sex, was he gay? Stalin was a force of good? Give me a break. Dont talk about lies and propaganda to me in 2023. It is everywhere. Need a sunglasses, you know...
There were 665 comments on this video. I have nothing of value to say but I just wanted to make comment number 666.
"Hvis lyset tar oss" translates to "If the light takes us". "Until the light takes us" is the name of a documentary about Black Metal.
Damn google translate lied to me a lot with these translations
We know
Of all the videos on Varg I have seen (and black metal controversy as a whole) this might be the most honest, respectful, and unbiased. A real discussion on his music and giving credit to his accomplishments, while not glossing over or diminishing the controversy surrounding him. No agenda in this video one way or the other, and letting everyone else's interpretations of him be seen as valid.
I've watched and enjoyed your videos in the past but this is the one that made me think, "I should subscribe to this guy". Rarely have I seen this topic dealt with using as much care as you have. Great work.
Controversy? I don’t know if you can stil remember his UA-cam channel back in the day but the dude has a bunch of screws lose and that’s omitting the fact that he is a cold blooded murderer. Yeah, yeah I know this dude will never shut up how was just defending himself. He did this every 3rd video or so on Thulean perspective but man, I have no love for this dude. Influential? Achievements? Ripping off qourthon’s riff...is unforgivable. I never judged this guy for his murder but damn his self righteous indulgence on his UA-cam channel was the final straw and I
I think "Det som engang var" is his best album but they are all great in their own way
Key to gate was the first burzum song I heard had no idea it was burzum was pretty sik on first listen and still is
@@tmp1k Great to hear, was also my first, followed by "Dunkelheit" and "War", bought "Det som engang far" afterwards because this song was my favorite and still is
You almost said Dauði Baldrs right, while "ð" is often anglicized to make a D noise, a more accurate sound would be a humming "th" sound similar to "this" or "smooth." So the pronunciation would be more like "Dauthi Baldurs." Sorry if I come across as a know-it-all, I just find languages fascinating and thought I'd share since not a lot of people seem to be aware of this. Great video 👍
I like almost all Varg's 1992-94 music, but first four tracks from "Filosofem" album are absolute masterpieces. So raw and depressive. Forest black metal.
Great video as aways! I've discovered lots of of interesting bands through your videos)
Aspid rules!!!🤘
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the entire album is a masterpiece, what do you mean? Haha.
Once again, what a great video man!
Since I discovered this band/project I have liked more the artist than the individual. It's a matter of subjectivity.
I totally agree with you, this band/project is an important landmark in the Black metal culture. Those who hate this musical entity will have to learn to live with it .
Despite how much I dislike Varg as a person, I can't help but love his music and his music was really important to me during a period of my life. Death of the artist is only something I can't do if there's some truly extreme circumstances or aspects being rubbed in my face while listening to the music, but in most cases if the music is great then i can enjoy it for what it is.
Well said.
ditto
I like him both musically and as a person
He’s tricky. He’s an asshole, to be sure, and I would undoubtedly dislike him if I were to meet him but as an entertainer, He’s very good at his job and I can’t help but respect him.
@@pickledpeckers7789it's ok to be a poser
Old Funeral: the band where the two funny men of black metal once played in
"If history disgusts you, then history is correct." Nice one man. You have a way of cracking through in random places that is very Zen.
Thanks for making these videos I’m new to black metal any metal tbh and I love learning more about the history and about the bands. I really love your videos 😊
Lmao I was not ready for the 'let's find out'. Burzum is probably my favourite band and loved to watch his channel. It was very calming with the ambient music in the background in the woods.
In Norse mythology, the Hliðskjálf (literally meaning the high seat with an expansive view) allowed Odin to see into all realms as well as listen to them.
Hlið means something like a gap and skjalf is a noun related to the verb skjalfa which means to quake or tremor. So together it's gap-tremor. I've seen websites define it as you have, as "high seat with an expansive view" but I have no clue where this comes from since the literal word means gap-tremor. No body really knows what hliðskjalf is supposed to refer to exactly but it definitely doesn't mean "high seat with an expansive view". Be very careful about what you read on Norse mythology and old Norse online. There's loads of bull crap out there. I'm not dogging you. I just so happened to know a bit about this so figured I'd share.
I think it says a lot about you as a youtuber that despite knowing all about burzum already, I was still interested to click on this and I paid attention through the entire thing. Another great video man, cheers!
23:50 This point exactly is why I consider Burzum to be the most important Black Metal band of all time, because these albums showed the rest of the world that there is so much more that you can do with the black metal blueprint than just aggression.
Filosofem immediately became one of my favorite albums when I heard it for the first time, Burzum really does sound like ancient dark magic radiating around you as you walk through a cold and isolated forest, it’s beautiful.
Thanks to the Thulean Mysteries album, I was inspired to check out more dungeon synth artists like Depressive Silence, Örnatorpet, and Aindulmedir, and now dungeon synth is one of my favorite genres (I’m even working on my own project right now lol).
I should venture out more on dungeon synth. It's great
“Hvis Lyset Tar Oss” has to be my favourite album of his, mainly for the opening masterpiece that is the song “Det Som En Gang Var”, although it is difficult to choose. It is absolutely hypnotizing, and along with a handful of other artists, responsible for atmospheric and even DSBM sound we have afterwards.
Love him or hate him, his influence is absolutely undeniable.
Yeah, we owe it to the excellent Grymyrk demo by Thorns. Without it, Burzum would most likely had sounded a lot different.
"Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is my favorite as well, I even had an BM project for a decade because of it. Then I came across the Grymyrk demo, and it is dead-on where Burzum got it's inspiration from.
@@Bolion23 Thorns for sure. Snorre has a new channel where he teaches some guitar tricks. Very cool to check out and he also interacts quite a bit in the comments.
My fav album of all time from Burzum . It's funny how many people never really cite this album as a fav or gets over looked.
@@Bolion23 Maybe. But listen to Burzum's Uruk-Hai demo from 1989 and you can see where he was headed.
Det Som En Gang Var is by far my favorite black metal song of all time. Absolutely haunting!
I love Filosofem so much. First time hearing an extreme metal song in my own native language. I fell in love with the song Jesu Død
Great video! Would add that he wrote some lyrics for Darkthrone when he was in prison.
Also, Belus is amazing!
Cheers from Bergen, Norway
I'm Norwegian. Yes, I enjoyed your attempts at Norwegian. And yes, I respect you for attempting it :P Especially Dauði Baldrs.
Thank you for an amazing video, done exceptionally well in all aspects, really.
Nice video! Burzum is where it all started for me and will always love the music (both ambient and bm).
I really loved the instrumental he uploaded as a goodbye to his "metal sound" called "Back to the Shadows'. Varg had the ability to make monotonous riffs sound like pure magic
Thulêan Mysteries is one of my favorite Burzum albums. There’s something about that ambient album that stands out from all the others.
Agreed, I think it’s incredible.
Maturity, something that BM nostalgia ‘’fans’’ can’t get.
All genius but true
Most of those people from my experience seen to hate all new waves of black metal or even the blackened style anything.. I personally love some of the newer bands utilizing a lot of it. They seem to hate a lot of NSBM and DSBM as well.
Brilliant video, thoroughly enjoyed it, your detail and unbiased analogy of burzum is brilliant, really enjoyed this as a burzum fan, once again great video, thankyou
Great video as always, long but worth the watch! Controversy aside, this is the band that got me into black metal, and especially those early albums will always be legendary to me. Btw what is the band on the shirt?
Great video!
Very well thought out,researched and carefully worded ( lol ) review of Varg and Burzum. Thoroughly enjoyed how you put forth two concurrent aspects of Varg. That being the musical entity and the human entity. While stressing bullet points on both fronts you didnt fall into the judgemental trap. Thank you
great mini-doc bro! thanks for posting and putting together.
Great job!
Can you do a video on grausamkeit or any other projects of andreas bettinger? That would be amazing.
That would be great indeed!
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Agreed
Always loved burzum listening to his stuff puts me in a spiritual place 🤘💥great vid 👍
I know you and I had a bit of a disagreement about Varg's beliefs the other day in a certain video's comment section (that's ok; it happens!), but I can push that all aside and say this about Burzum: I really think the simplicity of a lot of Burzum albums is honestly its greatest appeal. Varg knew how to write some catchy keyboard hooks that could get stuck in your head for days (see: Dunkelheit). And the "Burzumic" influence in black metal continues on to the present day with projects like Hemodr and Faidra really taking musical influence from Filosofem and the album preceding it.
The background album in this video is Haxan Cloak Excavation.
Great video by the way.
P.S. Really wish he released another album instead of all these film scores.
Very diplomatic and thoughtful approach. Well done, Wyatt.
I don't understand how people get so emotionally invested in hating controversial characters... there's assholes all around us, all the time. In our work place, families, friends circle. And most people will hide behind the statu quo in order to avoid confrontation and disruption within these circles, but when an artist or musician does bad stuff or hold controversial views, they're all over the place and openly vocal about their feelings towards that person. It's actually ok to enjoy someone's body of work even though you don't agree with that person's views. And it's even ok to dislike that person without getting so emotionally invested into aggressively hating that person.
There is nothing controversial about Varg's views. Perhaps you live in another reality.
You make a VERY good point. People tolerate the worst behaviour and views if it's from their family and friends. But they want to cancel people from the face of the earth they never spoke to. They are afraid, lazy, hypocritical and deep inside they are ashamed.
The Titles on Filosofem are actually all in german
Great video as always :-)
My favorite band ever. What a prodigy. I can’t believe a teenager composed all aspects and recorded those tracks himself. Truly genius.
Totally agree
"Det som engang var" is the greatest black metal track, it always project you somewhere else. HLTO is also the Best of Bests.
Fantastic video Wyatt and I agree with you on everything you said at the end
Great video, as always! Nice reference on the "Let's find out" lol
I quite liked the Self-titled album with My Journey to the Stars also being my favorite song. You also had a very similar take as me on his self-defense situation. I do kind of believe him in saying it was self-defense but the situation was strange. He did seem pro-active in his self defense rather than reactive which is why he got into trouble. But yea people always fail to mention how hated Euronomous was and I still partially blame him for what happened with dead, then the pictures and skull fragments really make me dislike him.
I actually like the ambient and folk albums as well. I think his music has great atmosphere being calming and simplistic while also being simple. Just like his black metal albums as well. And I also really like Fallen and Umskiptar a lot as well.
For the end I’m not sure that his influence can ever diminish because of how prominent and well written his music is. His music is legendary and it’s like trying to talk about heavy metal without Black Sabbath or pop without Michael Jackson. His music has influenced a ton of bands and I’ve seen DSBM bands point to Key to the Gate as the first DSBM song ever made. I think regardless of how you see his views, he has to be at least viewed as a great black metal artist in how influential he is. Im unsure but in the end his music will live on even after he’s gone in my opinion.
This is again a great vid. nothing left out. good details.... Yet id like to point out that just a day ago you were commenting in the latest metal meltdown vid that just talking about him and crediting him towards the far right gives him unnessecary exposue... and yet here we are giving him exposure right afterwards. I love both of yall nonetheless but ehm... yea i dont know what my point is but im sure yall know what i mean. At least you acknowledge that yourself in the end.
Yeah I get what you’re saying and as I stated towards the end of the video I am a bit of a hypocrite. While you can call me guilty for giving the project attention I still want to express how I think people who hate Burzum make him relevant even when Varg doesn’t do any sort of marketing for the project.
I was planning for weeks to do this video so it just so happened his stuff got recommended on my feed. Personally I think he just needs to discuss Burzum differently is all. Consistently making a video about Burzum multiple times and calling Varg a neo Nazis every sentence isn’t helping what he’s trying to accomplish. Again I get why he hates Varg and he has every right to but it’s kinda a little sad to see someone do the same thing and expect different results.
@@wyattxhim Agreed. I prefer your approach too. And its definitly the case that those who hate him do his marketing for him just as much as those who like his art. Its a loose loose situation kinda and it will always be like that. Even Vargs eventual death will probably just propell him even further. Nothing can/ will change that. Hes a phenomenon, good and horrible.
My favourite band/project ever. Found them as a young teen like everyone else getting into black metal, but with age I’ve found more enjoyment in the ambient albums. Especially Thulean Mysteries. Like you mention he has a way through repetition and unconventional song structures to create soundscapes that are entrancing and almost like a real world magic.
I love the cover art on Fallen, beautiful.
Det som engang var is also my favorite and was my first album I bought from Burzum.
I used to be one of those guys that hated Burzum despite never even listening to a single song because of what Varg did. But once I decided to give Filosofem a listen just to hear what the fuss was about I immediately shut my mouth because I was just so taken in with how engaging and hypnotic it was, and after checking out his other albums Burzum immediately became one of my favorites.
Great video, thanks very much, gonna have a Burzum weekend now.
Subscribed. Great video, was just looking up burzum discography
You forgot to mention The Depths of Darkness. Maybe understandably, but still. I love your channel, man. Thank you for this video.
Is it correct to say that, given the obvious differences, Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa is the Burzum of baroque music and Ezra Pound is the Burzum of poetry?
No
There's basically no similarities between Ezra Pound and Burzum aside from racism lol
@@THICCTHICCTHICCThat's why I've said "given the obvious differences". I just founded this tag "the Burzum of X" fun, as Burzum is quite possibly the most iconic/popular example of "good art bad artist". My sentence is just a humorous association of ideas.
burzum's ambient stuff is just so good
Im brazillian, i like burzum. Before i hated varg, varg hated me and all people i know, and i can seperate art from the artist BUT i will never support IN ANY WAY him. When he said on twitter that all brazillians are UNDERMENCH or whatever, a bunch of brazillian metalheads started sending him a pic of a black guy named vampeta naked ( aka vampetaço) and he got mad and closed his account. I know that for most of you guys this is just bullshit chud shit, but here in brazil even a mayhem concert was cancelled due to all the allegations of racism and shit, and i dont like to be like "oh u see thats not actual racism or whatever is just edgy" if that posture goes against my fucking existance, even tho i like mayhem. Anyway, great video as allways, i really fucking love ur channel. SALVE BRAZILEIRADA Q TA LENDO
lol funny thing is that Brazil, along with Mexico, India and the Philippines have some of the highest levels of white supremacy and natsoc posting haha
Still can't believe you can get banned from social media just for typing his name or his band name.
Insane uh?
it bothers you cause you are used to seeing them as real life. in reality no one can say you what to say, you can go out and talk about it and listen the musc publicly etc. the stupid platforms of some rich programmers arent reality. remember when people didnt even put their names in there. relax, its a good thing if social media become crap, then maybe a few ppl will step outside at last xd
@@nikhtzatzi Sorry I’m gay
Also funny that sites like ebay and etsy ban anything with the band name on it. But Amazon doesnt give a shit. Always found that to be funny
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613 imagine a CD can turns you into someone else, crazy uh ! We all have a connexion to internet and therefore can google the name. We can make our mind for ourselves, and choose to buy it or not.
I adore all 13 Burzum albums. The debut is what got me into Black Metal as a whole, blew my mind and made me a fan for life.
Then Hvis Lyset Tar Os cemented my love for the genre so much deeper.
All of his ambient/folk albums opened my mind in other ways, to appreciating the beauty in subtle and simplistic music.
His heavier stuff and his ambient stuff together for me makes such a beautiful, sorrowful atmosphere that takes me away to a different world every time I listen to them.
Still to this day when I have free time I get the urge to just listen to all 13 Burzum albums back to back (though in varying order) while I just let my mind wonder. Usually play a simple game like Minecraft or some RPG just to have something to do with my hands/eyes while I listen and get lost in the world of Burzum.
Varg may not be a "good" guy and I may not agree with a lot of what he says, but I respect his art and respect that he has views he's passionate about and mean something to him, which reflects in his music.
Euronymous became the sacrifice, which he spoke into existence when talking about and detailing killing varg as a snuff film, to propel black metal to it's next state.
Thank you for nice video. Enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed this video of yours, as always. This may seem a bit nitpicky by me, but "Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität" is German and your translation isn't wrong, but you could also interprete it as "Touring/going around the transcendental pillar of singularity".
Wikipedia gives the translation: Circumambulation of the Transcendental Columns of Singularity
I've never heard "Circumambulation" before, but it sounds cool as fuck ;D
This video is an early Christmas present, thank you!
Wyatt has been making great vids for years now, keep it up! Also, every day you look more like Brandon Herrera the AK Guy hahahah, im going to message him to encourage a crossover vid :)
Something I find interesting about Fantoft is it's now the most profitable stave church in Norway. I went last year and got engaged there! We paid to go into the church. It’s a beautiful building, and honestly, I think Varg did them a favour.
Baldrs legit sounds like runescape music
Great video as always. You should do an Emperor video as well. A band with a dark past that it tends to be overlooked
I don't think Emperor tends to be overlooked, they're a pretty legendary band. I wish we had more than one album in the style of their first In The Nightside Eclipse. That album was their best imo.
@@xenos_n. Their dark past is overlooked, not their music. They are the most successful symphoblack band
@@johnbad1000I love emperor, what’s their dark past? I have literally no idea 🤷♂️
I find Varg fascinating and that goes for the music, mostly ambient releases, and his personality. Although i dont agree with most of his actions in real life and his visions of the world, its still interesting point of his life. I dont like black metal at all, but Burzum is so strange entity, that got me to listen to such music, even if only as an experiement.
And thanks for very informative vid!
How often do you go to the gym?
Yo can you do one of these on GBK/Arghoslent?
Вечная классика, спасибо!
I always considered Burzum as the most important Black Metal act along with Mayhem and Thorns, these 3 bands invented what Black Metal today is musically. Ideologically, to me, it doesn't really matter, but Bathory has contributed just to that and the overall sound/production side of things. Blackthorn and Euronymous however developed a distinct style which Varg reworked into a whole different thing, with songs like My Journey To The Stars, Key To The Gate, the vocals lay ground to Depressive side of Black Metal, and later he even pioneered Atmospheric Black Metal.
I think, despite everything(history, ideologies...), Varg is THE most important musician for Black Metal.
The credit always goes to wrong people for some reason.
Can’t forget the almighty Darkthrone in importance to the scene I think
@@nw666tubeA Blaze In The Northern Sky is the first Black Metal full-length album, obviously.
Lots of new details in here for me. I love finding out new stuff about the Norwegian bm history.
Man, this Varg guy is such a wacky little fellow ain't he?
Varg didn't want to tag his music “Black Metal” because he claimed that Burzum had nothing to do with the “traitors” of the Norwegian scene and he didn't wanted to fall in the same place as them, but it will never change the fact that he is one of the pioneers for that genre.
The murd4r of Euronymous made him the objective of all the hatred in the Black Metal scene as a whole for obvious reasons.
Plus, he even claimed that Burzum has never been a Metal project and that his music is just “Scaldic music” (whatever that means). He has stated many different things contradicting himself a million times, so, what he says doesn't really matter at all tbh.
Lol so true
But apparently a lot of those guys hated euronymous as well
from what I understand, "scaldic music" had something to do with "keeping it aryan". don't quote me on that though, I'm not sure of this. i read it off encyclopedia metallum
@@tmp1k Necrobutcher wanted to k!ll him too. But it seems it was important for Euronymous to be hated and feared (he only achieved the first tho).
@@conde_bathory easier to be hated than feared. But being feared is key.
Will never forget the first time I heard the debut. Immediately enthralled!
Nice Aspid record btw.
I did a charcoal reproduction of the first album cover for a high school art project. It remained displayed for years.
Recognized you at the show tn. What shirt were you wearing?
I was wondering if the general backlash against the burning of the Fantoft Stave Church is also due to the fact that that church was an old monument (I think it was built around the XII century), therefore something meaningful for the cultural history of Norway.
Minor nitpick but Euronymous actually didn’t use dead’s suicide photo for Dawn of the black hearts it was another random person from Brazil I think who made the compilation
That is true !
What I was trying and should of said was even though Euronymous didn’t physically print the bootlegs is that he’s still the reason the photo exists and basically planted the seeds for the bootleg existing
Euronymous was in contact with Bull Metal that did it. He was from Colombia and shared some influential (for 2nd wave BM) ultra metal records.
Hlidskjalf refers to the throne of Wodan/Odin I think. P.S. I really like this album a lot more than the Daudi Baldrs.
This is correct, and I agree. Although something very primitive in the approach to Daudi Balders I also enjoy.
Yeah you are right ✅️
There's another track you can find on youtube that Varg uploaded to his old channel entitled "Back to the Shadows". He described it as the "last black metal track" he would do. It went up around 2013 after Umskiptar, and other channels have uploaded it since then. Worth a listen.
A wave goodbye to Black Metal
Who did dungeon synth first burzum or mortiis
Varg influences a lot of your one-man black metal bands, which is great!
Great video!! 👍. Well said! 👍
Hah, few months ago when I was editing a documentary video concerning Yugoslav Wars in my hometown I used Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte as a background track and it fit it perfectly.
That pronounciation of Hvis lyset tar oss was legendary lmfao.
I liked his UA-cam channel. He was very entertaining. Great humor and interesting subjects.
A very contradicting man. Socialist but wanted independence, heathen but christian positions.
To me...Varg iis not only a Black Metal Singer...but a musician and artist.
The Ambient style of music he was essentially making, especially in prison, was pure Dungeon Synth. There's a whole genre with that kind of style, medieval folky stuff.
could you do funeral mist too? love them
excellent video, respectful, yet not shy about the controversial stuff - a slim tightrope to walk, you did great doing it!
OOOH this is gonna be good!
He also became more popular because Gucci mane sampled a burzum song. So I’m down here in Miami and a kid with a Gucci mane or lil Wayne shirt will be chilling with a edge teen that has a burzum or dark throne shirt. Lol 😅 they probably don’t know a single song but it’s funny to see it.
Varg was an interesting guy. Interviews from Abbath and Atilla kind of point in the direction that he actually was a very good guy prior to the 90s. Abbath mentioned how he would wear death t shirts which opposed his takes on death metal later on, and Atilla also mentioned how him and Euronymous used to live together briefly.
Weird dude. Good music.
I always found it hilarious that his real name is Kristian.
I believe that him and Fenriz being really good buddies fed their ideologies. They had the exact same view on a lot of things and they created music to fit it. FUCK TRENDS. they all like death metal, liars haha
@@m.infernal fenriz was probably a lot less extreme than varg. Varg probably wasn’t even til prison, he wore Von shirts all the time
I think Varg once said that War is a tribute for Bathory, because Bathory was one of his favorite bands and one of the biggest inspiration at the time.
Wyatt got that Aspid LP there on the shelf, absolutely based
I like Burzum.
excellent video wyatt! 🤟
The first burzum digipack/cd i bought was hildskajf
You are very much correct when you state that Varg's relevancy is here to stay. I think you would need a timemachine and a box of condoms to make it go away. Those first 4 albums are so good and influential, there's just no way to scratch that out of the public consciousness.
As for the murders and church burnings, without those, black metal would've still been the marginal thing it was in the early 90's underground. I am old enough to remember it all blowing up, the articles and coverage, and people's reactions to it. It catapulted this grainy, obscure and sometimes odd fringe style into the spotlight in a none too subtle manner, creating an earthquake in the metal underground. Up to that point death metal had been the reigning force, but it had become stale, polished and boring, as well as way too technical for its own good (with all these things being neatly exemplified in Cynic's debut album, but that's not the point here). Suddenly there was this abrasive, aggressive and dangerous style of metal, with all these crazy stories behind it, so it was not a surprise it blew up the way it did.
And as a last: my fav Burzum album is "Hvis lyset tar oss". Awesome album.