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...
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 🤷♂️
@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.
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.
"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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@Xirque666it’s already happened, all the rap tards on here are talking about how their favorite rapper used it as a sample 🤦 that’s the only reason why they are here
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd very sad... Imagine how the raptards would react if raps were butchered by other artists from other types of music, in the same way that they do themselves with others music...they would be fuming and calling it "Cultural appropriation", and probably throw out the race card as well...
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.
Nah. Not really. Most in that scene were posers and had superficial philosophical attitudes, they were much more about the music. Varg actually understood history and what was done wrong to Europe.
@@JosephFuckinStalin Who he supposed to blame for (modern) capitalism? They are at the core of both sides of the coin. On the left, Marx and the entire first wave of marxists were jews, then Lenin, then the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt group were all jews, and a whole bunch of postmodernists also.
Not a huge deal but Varg started Burzum before he became a part of Mayhem (which was only for a short time). As far as Varg himself goes, could care less about his beliefs and views, but his music is very simple and chaotic but he’s created masterpieces that only stand as templates for what most current black metal bands try to emulate.
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.
I discovered Burzum in school back in 03 and it was like hearing Beethoven for the first time. Varg or Greven (The Count) as we call him in Norway is a painter with notes. His music is so layered it truly is a symphony, you gotta mind for it. His music is best experienced snowboarding or hiking in the Norwegian mountains at night. Now Kanye tryna bite his style, I see it in his merch.
Being a Norwegian metalfan that never was all that into black metal but absolutely love Burzum is a weird experience. The Burzum vs Mayhem thing is still going on to some degree. Mayhem is cool and they were the OGs but damn Burzum really just made it all that much better. Brilliant.
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.
Black metal is like opera in that you have to develop an ear for it. Many people can't stand it the first few times they listen but the more they hear it the more they understand and hear the melodies underneath the raw quality. Once it clicks you finally understand how beautiful the genre can be
Oh man me as well I finally got it. Listened to them on a rainy night and I’m like how could I miss the hypnotic elements as the driving force. Definitely changed my pov good comment.
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 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.
@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 you'll react to Glemeselen Elv.
The whole mood of Filosofem is so brilliant. Dunkelheit is atmospheric, Jesu Död is amazingly haunting, Erblicket Die Töchter Des Firmaments is so hauntingly beautiful and loneliness enducing. Gebrechlichkeit 1 and 2 i mostly skip but they are okay gives off more S-cide vibes to it. Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität is by far the saddest Burzum song ever made because of how Ambient and depressing yet so calming the song is. Filosofem is great while Vikernes views are not great. I am from Sweden, Dalarna. Btw. And it gives me such a nordic vibe.
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...
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.
Varg is a genius and a legend, in both music and political ways, never will be afraid to say it loud, and the actual state of the world just proves that he was always right about everything, HEIL BURZUM
IMO there were only a few musicians in the scene that shaped the style of TNBM. Varg, Euronymous, and Snore. I believe that these dudes came up with the trademark sound together, that the scene is infamous for. There are certain riffs on Mayhem's opus De Mystiirs, that were written by Snore of the band Thorns that are really some of the most classic examples of the sound. I think Euro actually saw Snore do it first and adopted the style. Snore doesn't get enough credit. But Varg took the idea and incorporated the method in his songs that surpasses Mayhem and Thorns's music. His songs are written almost like a classical piece of music, and he uses his riffs /song writing to convey emotion so well. At times the riffs are very dissonant and sometimes they are triumphantly melodic. In many songs he will add the "spell riff" as he describes, that is supposed to bring you into a dream like hypnotic state. Truly a musical visionary.
The album artwork is actually a drawing from the famous Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. His most known works are of Norwegian nature, fairy tales and legends. His work actually formed the way we vizualise trolls in Norway. The Norwegian black metal scene naturally grew fond of him, and used him on their album covers.
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.
Burzum is especially unique for its feelings or emotions it brings which conveys essential understanding of black metal. For me this is the closest interpretation of the idea black metal reflects. I listened to it hundreds of times in the forest at night with friends drinking beer around flickering flame of a campfire 🔥. Bright Memories and strong emotions you would value forever.
Still one of the albums I always go back to when I'm in that mental state where I just need the noisy riffs and atmosphere Burzum delivers. Filosofem is one of those albums that you just gotta listen to it and then listen to it again, and again, and again.
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
varg is the goofiest racist dude on earth and has the shittiest takes on pretty much everything. how the same mind could come up with Filosofem, let alone Hviss Lyset Tar Oss and Det Som Engang Var, is mindblowing tbh
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.
filosem. others would play fast tracks. not varg. not for this album. that is why this album stands out. very mantric, drone like, hypnotic.....you can get into a total trance and journey to the fifth dimension. open up the third eye....
I wonder if Buzum would get the same attention and acclaim if Varg was not a murderer and church burner. Anyway, Burzum is cool and entertaining to listen to.
@ 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.
After Mayhems Fallout 🤣 The band was there the same time as Mayhem. Euronymous signed Burzum, and invited him to play bass, after Necrobutcher left. (You know, the guy that is claiming all the fame now). His bass track was removed after the killing from De mysteriis...
Varg is pile of rotted surströmming. And that's being a bit disrespectful to surströmming. But he did make some kickass music. Erblicket die Tochter des Firmaments is an amazing piece of music. And he has a lot of other great songs. Still, surströmming
Ah yes, this it how you know Varg is right, they do him dirty like this. I dont want to be associated with this kind of person at all, so now it is suddenly harder to give my support to Burzum.
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
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.
Varg is a genious (he's actually a mathematical genious, snd went out of school with very good grades), and his music reflect that. No matter what one might think about Varg as a person (my logic actually support his claim that he acted in self defense as well.
There's a lot to dislike him for. He killed a man and that is horrible, but it is also an indication of how deep the darkness in his soul is. When I listen to his music, I can't help but think about it.
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. :)
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.
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.
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
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...
no studio but other than that yea, thats true. It was just his headset
@@bracelet4002no he did record the album in the studio
He’s said it himself
It was an old helicopter pilot headset I believe.
It was @@benjimusicandgamimg9773
he was so ahead of his times that he decided he needed 20 years in prison to allow the others to catch up. Cheers.
He was making music "in" prison
@@MichaelWHlike ronnie radke hell yeah brother heavy metal 🤘 guitar 🎸
lmao
Some see prison, others see hermitage and the school of hard knocks (beats).
Trve-metaller!
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.
@@livingdead0101 twitter name?
Varg is a living fucking legend
Masterpiece of an album, Spent many nights falling asleep to it.
i still do
Do you know that moment when you wake up drooling and Daudi Baldrs is still playing?
WTH I thought it was just me. The whole album is calming AH.
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.
"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 :)
🤘🏼🍻
The ”main” riff of Jesu’s Död is one of the most beautiful wall of sound out there. Together with Taake’s ’Velg bort livet’
Filosofem and Hvis Lyset Tar Oss are two of the best black metal albums of all time.
Well I mean I don't disagree with you 🧐
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.
Lol all the virtue signaling comments pretending this isn't great music cus they don't like the artist personally
Whites seem to be the only race not allowed to be proud of their heritage
Meanwhile I love the music and well varg is just brilliant
Cope is a helluva drug, lol
Jars of tears fetch a solid price on the black market I hear.
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.
Hvis lyset tar oss is the crowning jewel of extreme metal. I absolutely agree
I remember when I first bought the cd in the summer of 1994.
It was like nothing that I had ever heard before in extreme metal at that point.
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.
Gods, I hope that no hip hop or rap musician find and destroy this track. I really hate remixes like that.
Stop
@@Xirque666it’s already happened, all the rap tards on here are talking about how their favorite rapper used it as a sample 🤦 that’s the only reason why they are here
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd very sad...
Imagine how the raptards would react if raps were butchered by other artists from other types of music, in the same way that they do themselves with others music...they would be fuming and calling it "Cultural appropriation", and probably throw out the race card as well...
More like prog-electronic/krautrock a la Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Can
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.
Nah. Not really. Most in that scene were posers and had superficial philosophical attitudes, they were much more about the music. Varg actually understood history and what was done wrong to Europe.
@@gjermund8053 To an extent, yes. He does criticize capitalism for instance, but he blames capitalism on "the Jews" so he can't even find the plot
@@JosephFuckinStalin jews are the problem
@@JosephFuckinStalin Who he supposed to blame for (modern) capitalism? They are at the core of both sides of the coin. On the left, Marx and the entire first wave of marxists were jews, then Lenin, then the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt group were all jews, and a whole bunch of postmodernists also.
Nah, varg is based.
Not a huge deal but Varg started Burzum before he became a part of Mayhem (which was only for a short time). As far as Varg himself goes, could care less about his beliefs and views, but his music is very simple and chaotic but he’s created masterpieces that only stand as templates for what most current black metal bands try to emulate.
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.
Interesting trivia, thanks.
I discovered Burzum in school back in 03 and it was like hearing Beethoven for the first time. Varg or Greven (The Count) as we call him in Norway is a painter with notes. His music is so layered it truly is a symphony, you gotta mind for it. His music is best experienced snowboarding or hiking in the Norwegian mountains at night. Now Kanye tryna bite his style, I see it in his merch.
Being a Norwegian metalfan that never was all that into black metal but absolutely love Burzum is a weird experience. The Burzum vs Mayhem thing is still going on to some degree.
Mayhem is cool and they were the OGs but damn Burzum really just made it all that much better. Brilliant.
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.
Black metal is like opera in that you have to develop an ear for it. Many people can't stand it the first few times they listen but the more they hear it the more they understand and hear the melodies underneath the raw quality. Once it clicks you finally understand how beautiful the genre can be
Oh man me as well I finally got it. Listened to them on a rainy night and I’m like how could I miss the hypnotic elements as the driving force. Definitely changed my pov good comment.
The album is life and death, the regenerative power of nature. It’s in a different genre of it’s own, it’s close to perfection.
Even Varg himself calls this album autistic by looking at your peasants reactions. But in fact its a masterpiece from start to end.
i have no idea what this means but this is the funniest comment ever for some reason
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...
ancestors, man, we wuz treez n shieet
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
Huh? Wow
kanyes favorite musician, I wonder who's his favorite painter is... (:
some Austrian dude probably 🙃
The "filter" was actually just the worst mic they could find in the studio. I believe it was a broken set of headphones.
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.
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
Did You Know.
Burzum never played Live Shows
Not even Concert Shows.
He let the music and fire speak for itself
burzum reall is an experience, something you play when your alone or best going to sleep, truly a master at his art, no one sounds like burzum
Burzum is good music to get in the proper mindframe for doing rituals.
interesting reaction video! quite transcendental/atmospheric and unique sound huh! Love this album for sure.
This super simple synth phrase melts your brain into a trance 🖤
The only problem is that if you are vacuuming you cant tell if your vacuum cleaner is on or if its just the music
Nice:) This album is the definition of atmospheric black metal for me.
I'm a gay atheist, and love this album.
@@cameronblaylock poppers and fisting galore?
@@gallopinggargoyles7891no one asked
@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 you'll react to Glemeselen Elv.
Oh yes! One, who's responding positiv to Belus. In my opinion the best thing since years.
@@golemthurs8410 Belus is amazing and a true return for Varg after his prison stint.
I think Burzum isn't really divisive at all, the consensus is pretty clear. Musical genius and a guy not to take advise from.
“Something that Kanye would use.”
4 months later, what a foresight.
The whole mood of Filosofem is so brilliant. Dunkelheit is atmospheric, Jesu Död is amazingly haunting,
Erblicket Die Töchter Des Firmaments is so hauntingly beautiful and loneliness enducing.
Gebrechlichkeit 1 and 2 i mostly skip but they are okay gives off more S-cide vibes to it.
Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität is by far the saddest Burzum song ever made because of how Ambient and depressing yet so calming the song is.
Filosofem is great while Vikernes views are not great. I am from Sweden, Dalarna. Btw. And it gives me such a nordic vibe.
His views are spot on
Illa Tidandi gives Rundgang a run for it's money for sadness!
First 4 Burzum are highly influential and essential in BM
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...
Masterpiece. Thats art and still unreached!
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.
Varg is a genius and a legend, in both music and political ways, never will be afraid to say it loud, and the actual state of the world just proves that he was always right about everything, HEIL BURZUM
I will never stop loving Burzum.
IMO there were only a few musicians in the scene that shaped the style of TNBM. Varg, Euronymous, and Snore. I believe that these dudes came up with the trademark sound together, that the scene is infamous for. There are certain riffs on Mayhem's opus De Mystiirs, that were written by Snore of the band Thorns that are really some of the most classic examples of the sound. I think Euro actually saw Snore do it first and adopted the style. Snore doesn't get enough credit.
But Varg took the idea and incorporated the method in his songs that surpasses Mayhem and Thorns's music. His songs are written almost like a classical piece of music, and he uses his riffs /song writing to convey emotion so well. At times the riffs are very dissonant and sometimes they are triumphantly melodic. In many songs he will add the "spell riff" as he describes, that is supposed to bring you into a dream like hypnotic state. Truly a musical visionary.
Burzum, 15 years ago and still awesome!
Varg is the Mozart of black metal!
It was so fun watching you get into Burzum. My reaction to Varg's music was the same. It's enchanting
The album artwork is actually a drawing from the famous Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. His most known works are of Norwegian nature, fairy tales and legends. His work actually formed the way we vizualise trolls in Norway.
The Norwegian black metal scene naturally grew fond of him, and used him on their album covers.
them synth tones hit different
Hail Varg!
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.
Dunkelheit is a rebellious song about people with empty.minds.......
Burzum is especially unique for its feelings or emotions it brings which conveys essential understanding of black metal. For me this is the closest interpretation of the idea black metal reflects. I listened to it hundreds of times in the forest at night with friends drinking beer around flickering flame of a campfire 🔥. Bright Memories and strong emotions you would value forever.
5:49 Gucci mane and Kanye sampled the ambient track on this album
Masterpiece! Finally some real black metal on this channel, thank you.
Still one of the albums I always go back to when I'm in that mental state where I just need the noisy riffs and atmosphere Burzum delivers. Filosofem is one of those albums that you just gotta listen to it and then listen to it again, and again, and again.
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
varg is the goofiest racist dude on earth and has the shittiest takes on pretty much everything. how the same mind could come up with Filosofem, let alone Hviss Lyset Tar Oss and Det Som Engang Var, is mindblowing tbh
Everytime I hear Burzum I use my lip balm also !
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.
This album gives me goosebumps every time I hear it since 1996. True masterpiece
filosem. others would play fast tracks. not varg. not for this album. that is why this album stands out. very mantric, drone like, hypnotic.....you can get into a total trance and journey to the fifth dimension. open up the third eye....
randomly finding this channel, that smirk of satisfaction made me subscribe
I wonder if Buzum would get the same attention and acclaim if Varg was not a murderer and church burner. Anyway, Burzum is cool and entertaining to listen to.
Masterpiece
Best ever, nobody over, nobody besides! Thanks for making it travel around miss!
very good song, the video music is even better, hypnotic
We don't want a rap/hip hop artist to do anything with it stop mocking black metal
I like that you closed your eyes and really listened. 🖤 Aera is my personal favorite.
Suddenly... 🔥
Black Metal masterpiece 🤘
@ 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.
I’ve always loved Burzum such an amazing creation!
My fav quote by varg is “oh no I can’t press the dislike button with my Pinocchio nose” while blindfolded 😂
After Mayhems Fallout 🤣 The band was there the same time as Mayhem. Euronymous signed Burzum, and invited him to play bass, after Necrobutcher left. (You know, the guy that is claiming all the fame now). His bass track was removed after the killing from De mysteriis...
Varg is pile of rotted surströmming. And that's being a bit disrespectful to surströmming. But he did make some kickass music. Erblicket die Tochter des Firmaments is an amazing piece of music. And he has a lot of other great songs.
Still, surströmming
Love your review of this! One of my go to BM songs, no matter what Varg did.
Try some arckanum none ever react to it but its the close to burzum as you get
Ah yes, this it how you know Varg is right, they do him dirty like this. I dont want to be associated with this kind of person at all, so now it is suddenly harder to give my support to Burzum.
So glad I found your channel, you rock🤘🤘🤘
You should listen "Beholding the daughters of the firmament", for me the best of the album
father of black metal is Bathory, check out their Necromancy along with Burzum's War which is a tribute from Varg.
The atmospheric Black Metal band Lustre has vibes similar to this
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
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.
Varg is a genious (he's actually a mathematical genious, snd went out of school with very good grades), and his music reflect that.
No matter what one might think about Varg as a person (my logic actually support his claim that he acted in self defense as well.
here we go and Kanye using Burzum aesthetic for his new album cover
There's a lot to dislike him for. He killed a man and that is horrible, but it is also an indication of how deep the darkness in his soul is. When I listen to his music, I can't help but think about it.
Check out Hecate Enthroned- The Slaughter of Innocence, a Requiem for the Mighty Album... Brutal AF 🤘
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. :)
At my very first listen of this song I couldn't listen till the end. Then got used to the sound and got into the genre.
I don't agree with his worldviews, but I love his music.
Try listening to his debut album called "Aske"
kanye sampled burzum on guci mane track
The team up we didn’t know we wanted lol Gucci and varg
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.
It was written in ´91 and recorded in ´93
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Edda (Snorre) music (Scaldic -Vedism)
Dunkelheit = darkness
Is German
The song was originally called burzum from the black speech of tolkien burz-um which means darkness
Key to the Gate!
En Ring til å Herske!
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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.
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