Burzum

Burzum is a musical group, one of the founders of the movement of Black Norwegian metal .

Burzum is composed of a member, Varg Vikernes. Vikernes ensuring at the same time the song, the guitars, the low one, the keyboards and the battery. Burzum is before a whole group of studio which never occurred into live. Because of the personality openly racist, Eugéniste and occulto-aryanist of Vikernes, Burzum is often attached wrongly to NSBM, although the words and the music of the group do not refer any to the Nazism or the policy in general. The topics approached are of epic or mythological inspiration, borrowing from the universe of Tolkien then to Scandinavian mythology.

Vikernes purged a sorrow of 21 years imprisonment recently for the murder of Euronymous, guitarist of the group Mayhem, by 4 or 5 stabs. Its albums of Black metal are known for their violent sedative atmospheres, their frequent hypnotic repetitions of simple but often major structure, and their rate/rhythm slower and frantic that the majority of the other groups of this style.

Origin of the name

The name Burzum car its origin of a language invented by J.R.R. Tolkien and present in its novel the Lord of the Rings . This word means “darkness” in the Noir Speech of Sauron. Varg Vikernes is also known under the pseudonym of “Counte Grishnackh”, Grishnákh being a Orque which one finds in the Lord of the Rings .

Biography

Kristian Vikernes, which modified its civil statue by changing its first name into " Varg" (meaning " loup") to affirm its refusal of Christendom (Kristian meaning " Christ" or " Christ"), the music at the 15 years age within a group named started Kalashnikov initially, then Uruk Hai (name drawn from the Seigneur of the Rings). In 1989 it joined the group Old Funeral with which it leaves the EP Devoured Carcass in 1991, before leaving them this same year to only produce its own music. It is the birth of Burzum which leaves two demonstrations in 1991. The 1st album, éponyme, left in 1992. He entirely was interpreted, carried out and produced by Varg with goes-quickly with instruments of fortunes, he is with thousand miles of the large productions neat and formatted sails about it at the groups of the time. 1993 was the crucial year for Varg. It left the mini-album Aske and the second album Det Som Engang Var , and made the acts which returned it sadly celebrates: it took part in the cases of arson several Norwegian wood-upright churches dating for the majority from the Middle Ages and especially, it killed Euronymous of Mayhem. Several covers of album of Burzum are paintings of the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen (1857 - 1914). Burzum, after the imprisonment of Varg Vikernes, left two additional albums ( Hvis Lyset Tar Os and Filosofem which entered by aillor the English charters) recorded before the murder, then two albums of " dark/ambiant" ( Dauði Baldrs and Hliðskjálf ). Varg Vikernes put fine at Burzum in 2000.

Discography

Members

See too

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Complete Site on Burzum

Simple: Burzum

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