It’s been 13 years since the last sonically black metallic beast from the most infamous Norwegian perpetrator of Germanic mysticism and spells of darkness. Post-produced while Varg was already enchained to the dungeons of Ila, Oslo, Burzum’s “Filosofem” influenced a decade of ambient black metal with its melancholic drone textures, mid-paced romantic metal on the edge of desperation and hope and slowly drifting synthesizer movements akin to Tangerine Dream. Within the next few years, the caged wolf defied repression by a series of neo-classical MIDI works, that essentially showed he still has deep music within him despite the obvious difficulties in his situation to get the end product he would like to. Yet, this was not a catastrophe for pieces of music that were about concept more than anything else. As a pioneer of narrative and ritual composition, Burzum was never dependent on the devices of rock or traditional metal to bring across the ever deepening spheres of twilight that still continue to confuse listeners of the early albums and create endless clones of “depressive” or “suicidal” black metal which fail to have anything to do with the special mood of the original works.
While loudmouths and troublemakers were proclaiming Burzum’s death on the basis of a multitude of (not unfounded) anti-black metal statements, Varg’s release from prison was accompanied by a promise to return to the scene, figuratively. While details about the forthcoming album weren’t revealed then, now there’s enough to give any real Burzum fan sleepless nights of anticipation. “Den Hvite Guden”, conceptually a drama on the trials of the White God of various European ancient traditions, will include a couple of songs written as far back as 1988, with of course lots of brand new exercises in purely mesmerizing runic metal as only Varg can do it, besides Odin himself! An album to crush the whole past decade of mediocrity in black metal, or another safe, lukewarm comeback? We shall all hear it with our own ears, in the season when the Sun returns.
Filed under: Death Metal News,Death Metal Release Announcements — Tags: Black Metal, Norwegian Black Metal — Devamitra @ November 18, 2009 22:04 — Comments (2)
Truly something to await, if the inclusion of existing compositions from the pivotal years of his early discography are an assurance of quality and of true spirit, then the Gjallarhorn will be sounding from the Nordlands.
Comment by ObscuraHessian — November 19, 2009 @ 03:40
Its hard not to be excited about this…….
Comment by TheWaters — November 20, 2009 @ 08:21