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A Burzum Story: Part X - The White God
As You might already know, my dear ladies and gentlemen, and other individuals too, I am no friend of the modern so-called Black Metal culture. It is a tasteless, low-brow parody of Norwegian so-called Black Metal anno 1991-1992, and if it was up to me it would meet its dishonourable end as soon as possible. However, rather than abandon my own music, only because others have soiled its name by claiming to have something in common with it, I will stick to it. The "black metallers" will probably continue to "get loaded", "get high", and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth. Some of the "black metallers", their fans and accomplices will probably even continue to pretend - and actually believe - they have something in common with Burzum, but let me assure You; they don't! I play what can be described as some sort of metal music, all right, and they do too, but the similarities ends there. Freud wrote books. Tolkien wrote books. The similarities ends there.

Why more of Burzum? Well, I am what I am; a musician. Musicians produce music, when they can, and now I can; I am no longer imprisoned by the criminal anti-Norwegian regime in Norway. Will my music be any good? My guess is that if You like Burzum You like Burzum. If You don't You don't. I do try to change all the time, but most of the time I fail, and many appreciate that. Others don't.

The coming album is called "Den Hvite Guden" (The White God) and is a musical and lyrical description of the the White God (alias Apollon, Baldr, Belenus, Belus, Bragi, Byelobog, Jarilo, et cetera) and the annual events of his life. I describe the stories of the myths like they could have been before they were myths, by presenting to You bits and pieces of the sorcery and religion of ancient Europe (more elaborately described in my unpublished book "Trolldom og Religion i Oldtidens Skandinavia" [Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia]). It is not intended for play the "low-brow metal" style, but instead I imagine a listener willing to sit down, ideally in solitude, and think for a minute, about the White God and our forebears, whether they were Picto-British, Finnish, Gallic, Greek, Roman, Scandinavian, Scytho-Slavic, Daco-Thrakian or whatever, and about their magnificent, intelligent, positive, beautiful, healthy and strong culture. I try to help You create an image of this with the help of Your own mind, by offering a few clues and guidelines. The album is political only in the way that it offers an alternative to the depravity offered to us by the intrusive popular culture and the commercial entertainment industry - and by modern so-called Black Metal, for that sake.

The début album was intentionally anti-commercial and anti-Death Metal, the "Det Som Engang Var" album was experimental, the "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" album was intentionally monotonous and ritual, the "Filosofem" album was intentionally different from the others, "Dauði Baldrs" was what I could do from a prison cell, and "Hliðskjálf" too, but they were all music that I liked. "Den Hvite Guden" will be no different in that respect, but I am older now, in fact twice as old as I was when I recorded the début album, and I am therefore different. The new album might differ from the old albums more than some might appreciate, but I hope not. Even if some of You might appreciate the old Burzum, I must be allowed to evolve, just like everybody else. Maybe You will like the new Burzum too. I will not do my best to copy and reproduce my old music, just to please somebody. I never did and I never will. If it sounds similar it is because it is made by the same person. If it sounds different it is because it is not the same music and because I have evolved.

I can add that just like on the other metal albums (with the exception of "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss") "Den Hvite Guden" features some very old Burzum tracks. "Filosofem" featured the "Burzum" track, from 1991, and "Den Hvite Guden" will feature the "Uruk-Hai" track, from 1988-1989, although the title and the lyrics have been changed to fit the new concept. It will also feature the original "Dauði Baldrs" metal track, from 1993. In a sense this album too will not be "new material", but just a collection of previously unpublished tracks; some new, some old. If some think my composing skills have disappeared altogether, then at least there will be some gems for them too.

You can expect to see "The White God" around March-April (anno 2010), when he traditionally returns from the hidden world of shadows.
Respectfully,
Varg Vikernes
(14.11.2009)

[jp soturno]

Mais um tópico de Burzum...

http://www.metalunderground.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9521&start=1755

[Nevoeiro]

Por aqui, espera-se o novo álbum com ansiosidade. Quanto à declaração do Varg, não é assim tão surpreendente como à partida se esperaria. Quem acompanha a carreira do senhor, em especial as entrevistas e textos dele, sabe o profundo asco que o homem sente pela cultura do Black Metal. Ironicamente a carreira dele começou precisamente por essa cultura musical, mas as pessoas evoluem, transformam-se e claro ele tem o direito de se distanciar desse "mundo".
No entanto, não deixo de pensar que essa atitude de "bota abaixo" indiscriminadamente, é profundamente injusta para com aquelas bandas que ao longo dos anos prestaram tributo a Burzum, quer com versões das músicas, o assumir de influências ou a reverência ao mentor do projecto noruaguês. Bem vistas as coisas, também essas personagens acabaram por ajudar na construção e manutenção de uma imagem, que o Varg beneficia neste momento.
Quanto ao uso de musicas antigas neste novo registo, não vejo nada de mal em pegar no antigo, transforma-lo e criar algo novo.

[Alvin Karpis]

No entanto, não deixo de pensar que essa atitude de "bota abaixo" indiscriminadamente, é profundamente injusta para com aquelas bandas que ao longo dos anos prestaram tributo a Burzum, quer com versões das músicas, o assumir de influências ou a reverência ao mentor do projecto noruaguês. Bem vistas as coisas, também essas personagens acabaram por ajudar nessa construção e manutenção de uma imagem, que o Varg beneficia neste momento.

Não me pareceu que ele quisesse generalizar assim tanto aquilo que disse, mas não sei... É questão de como se interpretam as entre-linhas.

[Neburis [RIP 2010/07/17]]

[Carnal]

Mal posso esperar sinceramente.. Podemos condenar as ideologias e bla bla bla. Mas a musica de burzum continua a ser das maiores influencias dentro do black metal. Basta olhar para todo o movimento norte americano. E muito boas bandas por sinal.

[Obscurus]

Novo título do álbum de Burzum:

A Burzum Story: Part XII - Belus
When I used the name "The White God" for my next album I had no idea it would stir up so much fear and irrational emotions. To me this is just a nickname of Baldur, whom the album is all about. No ambiguity intended. The truth is I announced the release of "The White God" at this early point to ease the pressure on the http://www.burzum.org host. He was getting tired of having to tell individuals contacting him that he didn't know when the next album would be due, what its name was going to be or anything else. With the article this problem was solved.

With a title including the word "white" it apparently isn't possible to slip under the radar of the racist "Western" media. To take away their excuse to spread their anti-Varg/anti-Burzum hate-propaganda when (and before) the album is released I have decided to change the album title. These self-loathing fools have no interest in the music anyway, and because of that I don't want their attention - and I won't get it if I use a title that doesn't give them an excuse to attack me.

The new title of the album is, as You might have guessed from the title of this article, "Belus", the so-called Indo-European name for Baldur/the White God. I could have used any European name for this deity, but I chose this one because it is the oldest known name and because it is pan-European.

"Belus" will be released on Byelobog Productions March-April next year, with eleven new tracks; nine metal tracks and an ambient intro and outro, and about 50+ minutes of music (the long outro not included). The lyrics are all in Norwegian, but French and Russian translations will be available on burzum.org asap -- possibly even before the release of the album.

That'll be all for now.

http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/a_bur ... ry12.shtml

[Obscurus]

Será esta a capa do Belus?

[Sludge]

Se for essa a capa por mim está aprovada.

[Xhara]

Se for essa a capa, desde que mude o logo, está aprovada.

x2

[Neburis [RIP 2010/07/17]]

Se for essa a capa, desde que mude o logo, está aprovada.

x2

Sim, depois de tanta ideologia por detrás da Old English Font (tá toda explicadinha no site as razões por ele a ter usado) não convinha muito mudar agora..."I change my music/ideology/logo every last Thursday to piss my fans off."

x3

[Neburis [RIP 2010/07/17]]

Ahaha, já se estava à espera:

A Burzum Story: Part XIII - Logos

Too many of you write me about "the Burzum logo".

In 1991 having a "cool" logo was one of the most important things to the metal bands in Norway. Immortal got one, Mayhem already had one, Darkthrone had one, and so forth. They were full of inverted crosses and other "satanic" and "cool" symbols, and some of them were even rather hard to read - or rather "interpret". Initially, when I left Old Funeral and rekindled my own project, and changed name from Uruk-Hai to Burzum, I wanted a logo myself, and a female friend volunteered to draw me one. She did and everything was fine, until I realised that I am following a trend. Why would I do that, when everything I did was supposed to be a revolt against trends? So instead I decided to have no logo, and just use a nice font instead.

In late 1991 I had no easy access to fonts of any type other than the ones found on my typewriter. This was before the time of mainstream Internet. I had to purchase some type of sticker-fonts, and I could only afford a few sets, and then use them to "build" words, letter by letter. For some reason, either because I ran out of the right stickers-letters, or because I did it on purpose - I really cannot remember which it is - I wrote the Burzum name with capital letters and I used the only non-ordinary font they had in the book store; Gothic.

When I released the début album I instructed the record company, DSP, to use this font for not only the band title, but also for all other text on the album. The Burzum name was in other words not really a logo, but just the band name written in Gothic letters together with other Gothic text. After a while I stopped thinking about logos, and for some reason I didn't change the type of font used on the albums. Thus many started to think of the Burzum name in Gothic font as "the Burzum logo". It never was. The name was the point; the font was and still is irrelevant.

For "Dauði Baldrs" or "Hliðskjálf" (don't remember which one) I wanted to just use an even more common font, like Arial or something, but for some reason I didn't after all. Don't remember why I didn't. Some memories are lost forever - because they matter no whit.

For "Belus" I finally decided to use a different font, to stress the point that Burzum doesn't have a logo, but also because this is a new beginning to Burzum. I found some free fonts on the Internet and picked one I felt suited the concept of the album; Belus, the oak god (and his wife, Eduno, the meadow maiden). The one I decided to use looked kind of flowery, fantasy-like and was exactly what I was looking for.

I am sure it has been used by others before me - it's free to download for every single individual on Earth - and I don't try to be original. I'm done being original. I just want to do whatever I feel like, regardless of what the rest of the world may or may not do, and I don't want a logo. I simply use a font that fits the concept of the album. I am myself, not just the opposite of those I dislike.

If I ever feel like having a logo for Burzum I will do that as well, by the way. Nothing is carved into rock; not logos, not decisions about logos or anything else. Not even the Burzum name is...
Varg Vikernes
(December 2009)

[Alvin Karpis]

Não curti da capa, nem do logo, nem do nome do álbum. Mas isto sou eu. Anyway... desde que a música valha a pena, estou-me a cagar para o artwork.

[Phobos [RIP 2012/08/19]]

I'm done being original. I just want to do whatever I feel like, regardless of what the rest of the world may or may not do

Nigger!!!

[vírgula]

Varg é amor.