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skrotkanon wrote:Hliðskjálf (Hlidskjalf) by Burzum is the most depressing shit I've heard in my whole life. He (Varg Vikernes) recorded it while doing time in prison for murder. He was only allowed a keyboard so it's basically minimalist Blackmetal on a single keyboard.
The result is haunting to say the least. He conveys ennui masterfully with long monotonous passages and really drawn-out chords. The tracks do have loose structures but they're not exactly songs, I can't readily explain it to be honest.
I haven't listened to the album in quite some time because it shuts me down, my brain and heart is cold after listening to it, like the album was a emotional black hole.
10/10, a must-listen! :mrgreen:
skrotkanon wrote:Hliðskjálf (Hlidskjalf) by Burzum is the most depressing shit I've heard in my whole life. He (Varg Vikernes) recorded it while doing time in prison for murder. He was only allowed a keyboard so it's basically minimalist Blackmetal on a single keyboard.
The result is haunting to say the least. He conveys ennui masterfully with long monotonous passages and really drawn-out chords. The tracks do have loose structures but they're not exactly songs, I can't readily explain it to be honest.
I haven't listened to the album in quite some time because it shuts me down, my brain and heart is cold after listening to it, like the album was a emotional black hole.
10/10, a must-listen! :mrgreen:
Andropov4 wrote:skrotkanon wrote:Hliðskjálf (Hlidskjalf) by Burzum is the most depressing shit I've heard in my whole life. He (Varg Vikernes) recorded it while doing time in prison for murder. He was only allowed a keyboard so it's basically minimalist Blackmetal on a single keyboard.
The result is haunting to say the least. He conveys ennui masterfully with long monotonous passages and really drawn-out chords. The tracks do have loose structures but they're not exactly songs, I can't readily explain it to be honest.
I haven't listened to the album in quite some time because it shuts me down, my brain and heart is cold after listening to it, like the album was a emotional black hole.
10/10, a must-listen! :mrgreen:
Isn't he the one who stabbed his bandmate to death, and then turned into a neo-Nazi while he was in prison?
Dr. Ambiguous wrote:Oh god, Varg Vikernes. Motherfucking Varg Veikernes. Yeah, he stabbed the ever loving fuck out of one of his former bandmates, Euronymous. Stabbed the ever loving fuck out of him 23 times to be precise. Claims it was self-defense. That band was known as Mayhem, oh the incredibly infamous Mayhem. There was also the time their first vocalist, Dead, slit his wrist, and then blew his brains out with a shotgun. His suicide note read "Sorry for all the mess. Cheers!" Dead also most likely had Cotards Syndrome. And let's not forget how good ol' Euronymous found Dead's body, then left to go to a convenience store to buy a disposable camera, came back, rearranged things, then took some pictures. One of those pictures ended up being used as the album cover to a bootleg recording of their live concerts, IThe Dawn of The Black Hearts. Then there's all the church burnings. Did I mention that we're just scratching the surface of the black metal scene? What were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, Varg. Yeah, Varg murder-stabbed his band mate 23 times, burned some churches, turned into a Neo-Nazi, then renounced Neo-Nazism, not because he learned better, but because he felt the label wasn't accurate. His views are still out there, I don't know enough about his ideology to say if it technically qualifies as Neo-Nazism or not (probably does). Either way, he's racist as all fuck.
So yeah... Varg... good musician, horrible person. Do with that what you will.
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