Burzum is a one man project of Varg Vikernes (aka Count Grishnackh).Burzum began in 1991 as a prominent Norwegian Black Metal solo project.Varg mixes Black Metal and Dark Ambient music together.Burzum's early music shows a moderate Tolkien influence.The choice of the name for the project reflects both this influence and the desire for anonymity "Burzum" is a word of the Black Speech of Mordor meaning "Darkness".Some of Burzum's early songs featured titles like "En Ring Til Å Herske" ("One Ring To Rule") however, Vikernes later explained this to be a reference to the Rheingold of Norse mythology rather than to Tolkien's works.As he continued to release albums, Vikernes' attraction to Norse mythology and Pagan belief.
Musically, Burzum has progressed from primitive, raw black metal to classical-influenced dark ambient music characterised by minimalist tendencies and dark atmospheres. Vikernes' music is characterised by hypnotic repetition and simple yet profound song structures this trademark sound has been present on Burzum's black metal and synthieval albums alike. Vikernes has described Burzum as a kind of "spell" or recreation of an imaginary world tied in with Pagan history. Each album, he claims, was designed as a kind of "spell" in itself, with each beginning song intending to make the listener more susceptible to "magic", the following songs to inspire a "trance-like state of mind", and the last song to carry the listener into a "world of fantasy".
Currently, Vikernes is in prison for the murder of former musician Øystein Aarseth (Euronymous of Mayhem), as well as the arson of several Christian Churches in Norway. Vikernes is suspected to have taken part in various other crimes, and was believed to have been planning another church burning at the time of his arrest (police found 100 kg of explosives in his home).According to Vikernes himself: "...the claim I had plans to blow up churches with my dynamite is from 1994, and was made by a guy working for the police. That was the first time I ever heard of such plans, simply because I have never had any such plans." In 2004 during a week long release from prison, he failed to be back in the preordained time. Some days later he was found riding in a stolen car with a gun and a fake passport. Thirteen months were added to his sentence as a result.
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There once was a time in the land where the sun was worshiped as god and its embrace with the moon made the earth hold its breath as time stood still in silence, and at that hour the smothered sun shall cloak the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight giving birth to the Element Of Eclipse.
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