BURZUM was ahead of it's time!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2023
- I listen to Burzum for the first time ever.
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What do you think of Burzum? 🕷
We're waiting for another King Diamond's full album review here or Don't break the oath review. Burzum rocks!
not bad, takes me back!
Burzum is awesome... 👊🏼
Varg is an artist. Black metal is the only genre where you can murder somebody and still have a career afterwards lol
hvis lysett tar oss my fav
Say what you will about Varg Vikernes, but the man is a musical visionary. His work is pivotal in two separate genres, black metal and dungeon synth. He masterfully blended the dark side of ambient and the atmosphere of black metal
Exactly I don't agree with him on a HOLE lot of shit but there's no denying without him Black Metal and in the same vein Deathcore wouldn't be where it is I might even go as far to say it might not even exist without him. But that's just me 🤷♂️
Yeah, not sure if he actually believes his nonsense or if he does it for shock but if it’s just for shock he’s definitely committed lol
@DoktorGlib I'd argue he actually believes it. If you even skim his and his wife's twitter or some of their posts or other works, yeah it's legit. I mean at the end of the day there's no difference between him and some random dude working a warehouse job with the same beliefs posting on twitter except he managed to make exceptionally good music that was massively influential for various genres.
Masterpiece of an album, Spent many nights falling asleep to it.
How do you know if you never listened to it? Lol.
Burzum is definitely one of those times where you have to separate the artist from their music. Most people in that scene had/has extreme views and anyone familiar with the scene knows that. He just went further than most with his.
"Jesus Død" from the same album is awesome too, although more straightforward in terms of what you'd expect from the genre, even though it's still got that hypnotic repetitiveness running throughout. And the track "Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität" you've probably heard elsewhere some time or another. You should REALLY REALLY give that a go while lying in your bed and just let it wash over you :)
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The album was recorded under purposefully bad conditions. Varg Vikernes used a set of headphones as a mic to record Filosofem. He wanted a raw sound and he got it... this record is so underrated.
Underrated?? Basically the whole black metal scene of the 2nd wave love this record
I know it's "part of the sound" to sound shitty, but I still prefer to listen to a version with proper recording/production. For example listen to Lykanthrop's cover.
The headphone mic was only used to record the distorted vocals, remember; everything else was mic'd up as normal.
Lmao it’s def not underrated tbh
It's one of the most influential bm albums. Not underrated.
Varg's control of mood and long form narrative music is pretty much unrivaled in metal. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, despite how simple it sounds on the surface, is the most sophisticated metal album of all time in my opinion.
Yeah. Whatever you may think of Varg as a person (in my case, not much) but his musical legacy in both Black Metal and Dungeon Synth is undeniable.
Loooove Burzum. Please you have to listen to the third track from this masterpiece. It’s called “Erblicket die Töchter des Firmaments”. Imo, the best song on the album. I’m so glad you checked out Dunkelheit, which is a great opening song. But the third track is sooooo amazing and I hope we get to see you react to that one. :)
I will never stop loving Burzum.
This Burzum album really solidified some kind of change in me regarding black metal, in that it really makes apparent to seek all of the hidden melodies under the grime and repetition. And black metal is particularly good at following slow melodic patterns even if they hide it inside the tremolo. Everyone likes black metal for different reasons though, but this is my reason why I'll keep listening to BM music. Live it's always complicated though, it seems it's tricky to get the mix right depending on the venue and where you stand in the venue etc. I would recommend a solid knowledge of the songs when watching BM live, so that you can fill in the gaps in your head if needed.
Great reaction, Kaiya! Burzum: the first 4 LPs and the EP "Aske" (1992 to 1996): masterful! I suggest the reaction, analysis of the following songs from these albums: Feeble Screams from Forests Unknown, Spell of Destruction, Key to the Gate, En ring til aa herske, Lost Wisdom, all tracks from the album "Hvis Lyset tar oss", A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit (this song is a masterpiece! I recommend this song to be reviewed by you next, Kaiya!), Dunkelheit (there's already been a great reaction from you, Kaiya), Jesu dod, Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament...
@imakaiya Varg recorded all the instruments himself. Dude is a legendary musician. Varg was influenced by electronic and EDM, btw. Varg's music is simplistic like EDM. Repetitive simple riffs that create more of an ambient atmosphere than riff salad. The true essence of Black metal in my opinion. Hopefully youll react to Glemeselen Elv.
Burzum might be my favorite blackmetal material, after Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk anyway. Simple and repetitive, but very effective. He does have some songs that are a little more varied though, like Key to the Gate, probably my favorite Burzum track. Compositionally it reminds me of the few times in my life when I totally lost my shit - represented by alternating between riffs bashing out tritones and a more ballsy sounding typical heavymetal riff. Insanity and aggression, short lived, and followed by a daze after the adrenaline runs out - represented by rocking back and fourth between two arpeggios without drumming while the vocals switch from screaming to 'ah's. Then, after the dazed period of shame for acting like an idiot, the logical mind returns and tries to solve the problem - represented by a series of arpeggios moving around the neck of the guitar. It is played through the first time with one ending, but it is not the right solution, so he wipes it away and then plays through again and ends with another idea - and this is revealed to be the correct solution with an "ah ha!" moment - landing on two stacked tritones and sitting there for a bit. Interesting that the interval used to invoke madness in the beginning of the song is now used to describe a solution being found. Then there is a brief "twinkly magical" bit where he is picking an arpeggio in an interesting way, this sounds like rolling the solution around in his head. "Is this right? Have I really discovered the path forward?!" Then the last half of the song is more hopeful sounding, a bit jerky and stilted at first, but becoming more and more like "campfire" or "cowboy" chords with some melody over top, seemingly becoming more and more convicted to this new path forward. The last bit of lyrics are a choked-out "one day..." Goddamn.
The reason why the keyboard melody seems ahead of its time and like it could fit on a hip hop track is because hip hop shares a lot of DNA with house/techno/trance music, which Varg was a huge fan of. So-called white label techno was something that he was drawn to for its repetitive, hypnotic effect, which was also part of the goal of the Burzum project. Actually, when hip hop was in its infancy during this time, it was more sample heavy, and a lot of what makes it sound "modern" now was already old for underground sister genres of electronic music.
he was so ahead of his times that he decided he needed 20 years in prison to allow the others to catch up. Cheers.
Much of the artwork on Varg Vikernes's albums are works by his favorite Norwegian painter, Theodor Kittelsen. Kittelsen's main themes involved Norwegian folklore. The painting you see here is "Op under Fjeldet toner en Lur", (Up in the Hills a Clarion Call Rings Out), painted in 1900.
More interesting fact is he recorded first four albums within a year. Four different sessions during a year. Four albums that sounded differently. And his band didn’t appeared as a Mayhem fallout. He had this band before and was a guest session bassist on De Mysteriis dom…by Mayhem.
Nice:) This album is the definition of atmospheric black metal for me.
I'm a gay atheist, and love this album.
Masterpiece! Finally some real black metal on this channel, thank you.
Burzum is good music to get in the proper mindframe for doing rituals.
I like your musical break-down of the song. Decent album, but I prefer the debut.
You're the best Kaiya, for trying it all :) Well, I honestly do like the first Varg albums a lot. The atmosphere and all. Were they beaten in their own game? certainly.
I think a lot of BM guys overate him. At least, those who claim he single handedly shaped BM in all aspects.
Varg the person, is despicable. Leaving aside his spreading demented, ultra racist/ns conspiracies, his illiterate misreading of JRRT, the gaslighting he does to nearly anything and his insanely high ranking on the "Dark Triad" (especially narcissism), he is an utter hypocrite. Btw, he also believes in the "4chan/8chan hygiene industry" conspiracy. Yup.
He's not using a vocal filter btw, he specifically asked the studio owner for the shittiest microphone he had, so he gave him cheap office desk headphones to yell through.
Yes "pytten" Erik Hundin. By the way the father of oldertimes famos handball girl Mia Hundvin.
Headphone used trought a shitty 25w peavy said in interwiews...
Filosofem and Hvis Lyset Tar Oss are two of the best black metal albums of all time.
More black metal!! Try Graveland, Endstille, Marduk, Ragnarok, Striborg, Enthroned, Impaled Nazarene, Summoning etc. there is too much to count!!!!
@ around 0:59 he didnt start the band after the fallout, it was before Dead self deleted even. He did play in Mayhem but by that time most of his early stuff was already or fully written and mostly recorded.
Also this is the only Album that sounds like this from him. I Prefer his first album and some from his second a bit more but Filosofem is awesome.
Musically Berzum beats big punch of other bands there's ever been around!! Very hypnotizing melody's. Something that drills deeper into the recesses of the soul, and into the center of the mind..
This song is released in 1996 Kaiya not 1991 so not that ahead of it's time like you said. İf you listen to debut album that album has same kind of atmospheric riffs like this album.
Now you see why Euronymous constantly tried competing with him, it's because Varg is way better of a musican then he was and Varg didn't need anyone else. 💯
Nothing more metal than tossing on lip balm during a Burzum song
Filosofem is no to take as regular music but just to lay down somewhere and start meditating your sadness or dark feelings and calm down, at least thats what it did to me, and listening to it while being high is kinda nuts, it really sets you in a mood
So glad I found your channel, you rock🤘🤘🤘
No guitar amp. was used, instead he just plugued the guitar into is brother's stereo system. For vocals he just used the mic from a headset. Also he was always a fan of electronic music, he used to go to a techno club called Phoenix and just stand in a corner listening to it and get inspiration for his band. About that iconic album cover: The album cover and booklet contain extensive artwork by the Norwegian painter Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914), the front cover is a close-up of his 1900 painting entitled 'Op Under Fjeldet Toner en Lur' (Norwegian for 'Up in the Hills a Clarion Call Rings Out'), which features a woman playing a birch trumpet.
I have a Dauoi Balders cd from 1997 he released in prison. Dungeon Synth album. Varg only had limited instruments in prison so there is no vocals. Expensive and one of my rare prizes of my collection.
Varg is back with new Burzum single Sept 8 2023! - “let’s find out” :)
Is it metal or ambient music?
Really? If so great, guess I have to search for this
Please do Morgenroede off the belus album. So underrated & more atmospheric imo.
First 4 Burzum are highly influential and essential in BM
🤘🤘🤘Varg is a musical genius🤘🤘🤘
Even Varg himself calls this album autistic by looking at your peasants reactions. But in fact its a masterpiece from start to end.
I had a period when I was out in the dark winter nights after work taking care of storm felled trees then I had it on repeat for a few hours.
Cut 400 cubic meters that winter alone in the dark and cold...
Burzum rules. The first 4 albums are all BM classics.
Dunkelheit = Darkness. I learned of this song on a video comp called Embrace The Hate. Pungent stench and the hitching axe murderer too. Dunkelheit is in all playlists. The Freezing Moon by Mayhem from the Euronymous Tribute album with Dead on vocals. Varg has an interesting story considering he killed Euronymous.
Dunkelheit = darkness
Is German
The song was originally called burzum from the black speech of tolkien burz-um which means darkness
You should listen "Beholding the daughters of the firmament", for me the best of the album
Dunkelheit black metal masterpiece!
Okay hi. New fan.
But like, you need to do both Det Som Engang Var (album) and Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (album after that) to really get the vibe of Burzum.
I personally believe that Varg himself is a reprehensible douchebag, but as a musician? And those two albums? Solid gold.
Those two are going with me when I depart.
Burzum was always his band, before he played bass on the Mayhem album, and before the murder; Euronymous actually wrote one of the solos, I think in the song Ea, Lord of the Depths.
Many would say Burzum is far and away the best. I've communicated occasionally or sporadically with Varg over the years. The old YT channel was good times; they still have the video available here wherein he explains the night of the murder though.
Something like, "about a day [night?] in 1993 that changed black metal forever"
Pardon the essay, felt like it.
swear to god he had a new channel like 2 months ago... but i think its been deleted again.. if not can someone put the link in here plss
is a killer...in german dont wont see people with burzum-shirts...many grounds to say this...this track is nice not more...i must go,,,,,,,,:)
Find the crappiest somewhat broken equipment and record it in a shitty place like an abandoned gas station bathroom and you'll have the quintessential 90's sound Burzum was going for. Then you have Emperor, who did The Wall Of Sound overproduced don't let the listener have a moment blast them into the wall style sound which is equally what I love about this sub genre. Mayhem walked the line between both styles and still do.
Bring more Burzum.
Masterpiece
The new song sounds amazing
Kayne did actually sample burzum in the song Pussy Print from Gucci Mane with kanye producing and featured verse, song is from the same album as duklehiet too
Compared to a lot of his older recordings, his vocals on Filosfem were thankfully buried! His records were intentionally made to sound crappy and a lot of the previous ones did, but this was different, except for that extremely long song at the end, every song is a masterpiece, maybe because, and i'm not sure of the exact timeline, this was released in 1996 but was recorded sometime in early '93 around the time that shit was really hitting the fan in the Norwegian BM scene and this was gonna be his last shot to make a lasting impression
Idc what he did or didn't do other than he didn't make bad music...
The atmospheric Black Metal band Lustre has vibes similar to this
I think Burzum isn't really divisive at all, the consensus is pretty clear. Musical genius and a guy not to take advise from.
This is so Dark as it Can be 😃
yayyyyyyyy! finally!!
as for the question...i love the first albums...dont like Varg... since i got into Burzum without knowing anything about Varg, and all the sh*t he did, it's easy to me to separate art from the artist in this case.
Try listening to his debut album called "Aske"
Amazing, Gorgeous Kaiya 🌹
I have to say, you are the cookest chic alive today!!!
kanyes favorite musician, I wonder who's his favorite painter is... (:
Extremely simple riffing and raw production (on purpose): evil oozing from every note, this song is the exact definition of "dunkelheit" (darkness in Norse), so much so that it could have easily been without lyrics and your hair would still stand up. Knowing the twisted mind behind this make it sound even grimmer.
I've always liked Burzum's music and the "environment" he created. It's not up to me judging his behaviours or ideas, I'll stick to the music.
Dunkelheit means darkness in german. The original name for the song is 'Burzum', darkness in black speech (from Tolkien)
Well you listined Deatcrush, but just with passing by De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas espically Freezing Moon with Dead’s vocals. you suddenly decided to listen a Burzum song that came out in 1996 which is the time that beyond important Black Metal events; That’s not cronological at all :D
It was recorded in 1993 though
I'm a gay atheist but i love the music of Burzum and Emperor; both have murderers.. I can appreciate the art from the artists x
You have an awesome point here!
I hope you like Norwegian black metal because I don't use earbuds
You know, I cannot enjoy Burzum for the life of me and it's because of how shit the recording equipment was (I get why it was). It's still cool to see other people appreciate Varg's music despite not being able to do that myself, since I am able to at least see it through a different perspective.
I love burzum and i suggest listening to agalloch
Everything about black metal turns me off from it but something with Burzum is slowly bringing me in like a tractor beam. I'm slowly becoming more and more intrigued.
Great video as well 😃👍
I want some Black Rap Metal I'm curious to hear what it's like
Dunkelheit is german and means darkness, well discovery sista
If you can reconcile the fact that Burzum's Count Grishnackh (Varg Vikernes) murdered Mayhem's guitarist Euronymous is cold blood, the guy had talent... but it does not excuse his actions or descent into nazism and white supremacist ideologies.
Granted, Varg wasn't alone... (the late) Jon Nodveidt of Dissection and Faust (Bard Eithun) drummer of Emperor had both committed murders in Scandinavia in the 90's. The question is: How much can we overlook?
Also, what does the character of the artist say about his art?
I think Tom Araya of Slayer dissed them, calling the 90's black metal scene as "creepy Norwegian guys who are freezing their brains out..."
Phil Rudd, drummer of AC/DC was arrested in New Zealand and convicted of a "murder-for'hire" plot after relapsing on me++amphe+amines... Does he get a pass? How about As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis touting Christianity and then attempting to murder his then-wife?
It's subjective how much we, as people, are willing to overlook... Bill Cosby has been blacklisted after his sexual assault actions came to light... Actor Danny Masterson of "That 70's Show" has been convicted on multiple rape charges... But their TV shows are iconic.
Ted Nugent used to be an iconic rock guitarist, but his descent into white supremacy, nationalism and right wing fascism ... not to mention his history w/ sleeping w/ underage girls and his fathering numerous children while married... That has demolished his legacy.
After Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer was arrested for his terrorist attack on the Capitol on 1/6, u can still call him a talented songwriter... but he is no longer to be associated w/ the metal scene or welcome anymore ... Ironically, Varg admitted later that he was not a metal fan - he was 'following the trend' so to speak (Mayhem's vocalist Attila Csihar recalled that Varg seemed to prefer 'hard, indie techno' when they met)
I leave those decisions up to the people - pick the art u choose to admire. The art is not as guilty as the artist... but the art is still an expression of his flawed soul 😈
6:15 It's not a filter,Varg said that he used the shi...est mic he could find to record his vocals.
Dunkelheit is a good song but imo Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmaments is better.
One of most over rated album of all metal.
The issue here is that Varg's controversies are not only in 'The past' he's an open and proud Nationalist of the white variety if you know what I mean (Otherwise youtube censorship kicks in) so I cannot separate the art from the artist in this case, mostly because there's a huge problem of 'mixed vibes' in the metal scene: The reason why Varg and other 'Nationalists' of *that* type continue to be popular in metal is because so many people, includying almost everybody here in this comment section, keep an attitude of 'I just love the music but I am somehow fully '"apolitical" as if that was a thing' instead of just stop supporting this kind of vile intolerance to happen right in their genre to a point it can only be described as complicit complacency.
I am not joking when I say that people tolerating this kind of stuff along with many other examples is why I refuse to call myself a metalhead anymore or wear the t-shirts, go to the concerts, etc. I just do not want to be associated even by close proximity, with what Varg represents.
Cool story bro
Lol all the virtue signaling comments pretending this isn't great music cus they don't like the artist personally
dont know why ppl like this song so much 🤷♂️ theres better tracks, like Jesu dod (i think i mispelt tht, but not bothered)
Im more into the other band... 🤭MayheM of course.
also, this is the definition of ambient norge black metal! Mortiis is a must listen to
Burzum Yessss yesss yesss 🥳
Musically? Hell YEAH!! Politicaly/Philosophicaly? Half of century too late.
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Liking the sweater
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Key to the Gate!
En Ring til å Herske!
@svekkapung I support this suggestion
noice :)
Why do you look like you are two different girls?
burzum glemselens elv
We don't want a rap/hip hop artist to do anything with it stop mocking black metal
Your intro and aesthetic confuse me, you come off as sweet then you have aborted merch in the background
the 25 min long track? I adore it, but it takes skill to hear it lol
or boredom
its a great track!!
i love burzum, but i fuckin dislike filosofem. i d take belus, dsev, hlto, aske, ftdd over filosofem any day
the only song i like on filosofem is dunkelheit
I don't know this band
😢nah,not ahead of its time.
I guess it's an acquired taste. Which I have never acquired.
It's not an acquired taste, you just don't like it. I liked it instantly the first time I heard it.
Dude, your whole channel has 2 Tool songs!!! Please fix this!
What's up with the rap beat?
Rap beat?
Hot take. This is really boring music to me. I know, I know. Come at me if you will but this shit is just a snoozefest to me. The music goes nowhere. Not a huge Black Metal fan but there are a few bands I like. This is way too uninteresting for me. And yeah, the raw sound sounds terrible. I can't do it lol. But Varg fans can have at it. Respect.
Borzum. 😴
I feel as though this view is symptomatic of modern social media culture, with attention spans becoming shorter and shorter.
have you watched any of varg’s home vids? they’re on here. cringe af