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[[Burzum]]
Founded in 1991, Burzum initially played raw black metal, and quickly became prominent within the Norwegian black metal scene. Burzum was signed to [[Non-Indicative Name|Deathlike Silence Productions]], the record label run by Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous); Vikernes released four albums before his arrest in 1994 for the murder of Euronymous (whom he stabbed, allegedly over a contract dispute), as well as the arson of several churches in the area. While in prison, Vikernes recorded two dark ambient albums, which had a more mixed reception from the metal community than the rest of his albums.
Vikernes was released in 2009 on parole, and started recording the album ''Belus'', his first metal album since his arrest.
He [https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/varg_vikernes_has_ended_burzum_for_good_burzum_is_my_painful_past_in_a_reeking_bog.html retired the project] in 2018.
'''NOTE:''' Varg Vikernes is a [[Base Breaker|pretty polarising fellow]], so please keep a neutral perspective and remember the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement]].
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* ''Burzum''
* ''Det som engang var''
* ''Aske''
* ''Hvis lyset tar oss''
* ''Filosofem''
* ''Dauði Baldrs''
* ''Hliðskjálf''
* ''Belus''
* ''Fallen''
* ''From the Depths of Darkness '' (2012, re-recorded songs from his first two albums)
* ''Umskiptar''
* ''Sôl austan, Mâni vestan'' (2013)
* ''The Ways of Yore'' (2014)
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* [[Artist Disillusionment]]
* [[Black Metal]]
* [[Brown Note]]: The music is intended as a real life example of this trope - Vikernes envisions each Burzum album as a kind of "spell" to be listened to while the listener is lying in bed, such that by the end of the album they will be sent to sleep. YMMV as to whether he succeeded in this goal.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Epic Rocking]]: About half of the songs he's recorded. ''Hvis lyset tar oss'', for example, is comprised of four tracks, the shortest of which is nearly eight minutes long.
* [[Genre Shift]]
* [[Harsh Vocals]]: For the most part. Clean singing/spoken word is used sparsely.
* [[Heavy Mithril]]
* [[I Am the Band]]
* [[Indecipherable Lyrics]]: As a rule when the lyrics are screamed (although a Norwegian speaker might face less difficulty).
* [[Leave the Camera Running]]
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]
* [[One of Us]]: Vikernes's pseudonym, Count Grishnackh, comes from a character in ''[[The Two Towers]]''. The first band he played in was called Uruk-Hai. There's an instrumental piece on his first album called "The Crying Orc". He met many of the individuals that would make up the Norwegian black metal scene through their shared fondness for spirited [[LARP|LARPing]]. Hell, even the name of the band means "darkness" in the Black Speech. Need we say more?
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: His [[Genre Shift]] to dark ambient came about because for the duration of his sentence the prison guards refused to allow him record with guitars and basses, only allowing him a keyboard. Yes, prisons in Norway ''do'' allow inmates to record dark ambient albums.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
** Although he claims that many of Euronymous's "stabwounds" were actually inflicted by broken glass he threw him down upon (not ''entirely'' implausible, considering several of these wounds were on the soles of his feet).
* [[Self-Titled Album]]
* [[Stage Names]]
* [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]]
* [[Three Chords and the Truth]]: All of Burzum's music is extremely minimalistic, stripped-down and repetitive - most songs are just cycles of two or three recurring riffs. The same principle extends to the production quality, which is deliberately bare and lo-fi - for the recording of the ''Filosofem'' album, he even forwent using a guitar amp, instead plugging his guitar into the speaker of his brother's old hi-fi.
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