Nothing I will say about Burzum or his music hasn't already been said. He used to be a nazi and still espouses racist ideologies through his music and writings. As a result of tensions between he and a bandmate, he stabbed said bandmate 23 times and left him to die in the stairwell of his apartment. He very likely burned down several churches in Norway in the early 90's. He is a genuinely fucked up human being and luckily for us relatively normal folk, he is one of those fucked up people that happens to enjoy creating music we can listen to from a safe distance.
This album is one of his most bleak efforts, yet it still retains some semblance of black metal (after this he went to jail and solely made music using keyboards for racist reasons... I'll let you figure that one out). I do enjoy listening to Burzum's music for it's extremity and atmosphere however, I do not condone his actions or see any logic in his beliefs. I know it's cool to listen to music made by morally depraved people (Death in June, Anal Cunt, GG Allin, etc) and Burzum definitely falls into that category but don't be just another hipster turd who pretends to be a moral nihilist that thinks racism is "soooo funny" or whatever shit will make you seem mysterious at art school this week... be someone open minded enough to listen to music made by extreme individuals for music's sake... not for fetishizing that extremity as some personal badge of intellectual superiority. this has been a poo
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