Artist: Burzum

Varg Vikernes has posted on the Burzum website that a new album called Umskiptar will be released this May, and will feature 11 songs and 65 minutes of, hopefully, brutal black metal. The lyrics are taken from a Norse poem called Völuspá. The English translation of the poem can be found in a new book Varg wrote about ...

Burzum, the one man black metal band spearheaded by infamous musician Varg Vikernes, has announced that a new studio album, entitled "Umskiptar" (Metamorphoses,) will be released this May through Byelobog Productions. The album was recorded in Grieghallen Studio in Bergen in September 2011. All the lyrics on the album are taken from a Norse poem na... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

They're from Iceland, they dress like cowboys with pigtails & they've released a double album. This review might not say what you expect from that description.

As you may have heard, country music lifer Hank Williams, Jr. has parted ways with Monday Night Football , the TV show he spent 20 years singing the intro for, just because he made a totally calm and reasonable parallel between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler. (He also compared John Boehner to Netanyahu? Whatever.) If you haven't seen the clip of Williams crashing and burning on Fox And Friends , it's absolutely worth your three minutes and 31 seconds, if only for the three anchors' amazing facial expressions during the pivotal moment. [...]

Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.By Andrew Wilhelm (Denver)No fancy intro will make this bit of news any less weird, so here it is: Burzum will release a collection of rerecorded tracks from Burzum and Det Som

You thought that Sergeant D.'s line of Burzum clothing was all some bullshit joke? Well think again: the Sarge himself e-mailed us this photo he found on Tumblr of a nice young lady making her daddy proud by modeling this Burzum skirt. And the pic is already a million times better than any Burzum album [...]

Man, I really, really hope that some day, some Korean animators see fit to make a short about MetalSucks. And that it is one-eighth as awesome as the above video. ANYWAY, here's how we kept ourselves entertained this week: We debuted new music by Revocation, White Arms of Athena, Goreaphobia, and Sixx A.M. We did not [...]

As many of you know, my highly successful BURZUM clothing line is now available at Hot Topic, Spencer's, and Zumiez. I am proud to announce that we have also signed a deal with black metal legends IMMORTAL to create another line exclusively for indie rock retailers URBAN OUTFITTERS! Our first design is now available, featuring [...]

1) Be nicer to Sebastian Bach 2) Compare penis sizes with Tommy Lee 3) Hire Phil LaBonte as a vocal coach 4) Hire Billy Milano as a personal trainer 5) Hire Tripp Eisen as a baby sitter 6) Sleep with present-day Tawny Kitaen 7) Help Danzig clean up his motherfucking bricks, bitch 8) Listen to [...]

Nobody should have been surprised. Varg Vikernes' odious, conspiratorial, anti-Semitic commentary on the Norway tragedy is just the latest statement of ignorance from the man behind black metal's most infamous project, Burzum. You're welcome to read it if you're into swastikas or crackpot theories for the tinfoil hat set. Your time would be better spent [...]

Oggi hanno parlato tutti delle allucinanti dichiarazioni di Feltri e Borghezio in merito alle strage in Norvegia di venerdì scorso, ma non fatevi sfuggire anche il commento di Burzum in merito. Moderato e ragionevole come ve l'immaginate

Before the quibbling starts: I didn't include YOB's Atma because it isn't out until August. It would be way up there. I've also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind quite a bit, but since it has an original release date of '09 before Prosthetic's 2011 reissue, I didn't include that either. On the other side of things, I've recently started listening pretty intensely to Servile Sect's Trvth (Handmade Birds), a collection that feels like it'll stick around for awhile. Otherwise, this is what I've found myself returning to [...]

Growing up as a young punk enthusiast in a small North-Washington town, I was certainly not ignorant of such metal offshoots as thrash or grindcore, but it would take me almost a decade to be formally introduced to black metal by the documentary Until the Light Takes Us . Focusing primarily of Norwegian black metal forerunners Mayhem and Burzum, this film is comprised of a series of interviews with surviving band members and scene regulars. The movie is well put together, often strangely touching, and always shocking, as it tells the story of a scene responsible for the burning [...]

My usual source for Soundscan info is on vacation this week (asshole!), but thankfully the always-reliable Metal Insider is there for me with their weekly Metal by Numbers column. Rather than go through the whole chart since I don't have it at my fingertips, let's just focus on new releases that came out last week: [...]

I'm at the point where I pretty much prefer animated movies to live-action ones. I passed up some big deal, hotshot movie that came out recently, whose name I don't even remember, to see Rango. I'm usually a pretty good judge, too, because I knew Rango was going to be awesome ,and it was. It [...]

Burzum's second post-prison release tops the list of records coming out today. New ones from Vintersong, Power Quest, Glen Drover, Artillery and others finally see the light of day as well. MS New Release Czar Vic Vaughn gets on it after the break. Artillery – My Blood (Metal Mind) While no one can deny early [...]

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli... From Roman Polanski to Eminem to a billion pricks before and after, the argument of an artist's personal merit versus the merit of his or [...]

News Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli... From Roman Polanski to Eminem to a billion pricks before and after, the argument of an artist's personal merit versus the merit of his or [...]

De derde maand van dit jaar was een ongekend drukke met betrekking tot releases, althans, welke ik tot mij genomen heb. Ik neem aan dat ik Bibio , Eleanoora Rosenholm , Niggas With Guitars , Rene Hell , Kreidler , Bridget Hayden en Kurt Vile niet meer hoef te noemen? In het begin van de maand zag ook het album Civilian van Wye Oak het levenslicht, een van de weinige indie albums die mij de laatste tijd nog heeft weten te bekoren. Vooral het titelnummer maakt duidelijk [...]

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Until The Light Takes Us documents the rise in popularity of Norwegian black metal and death metal in the early 90s. Based loosely around two instrumental band members of Darkthorne, the film peeks into the origins but focuses heavily on the cultural aspect that, politically, turned the country into a frenzy. While never really skewing one way or another, Until The Light peers into the somewhat torn soul of Fenriz, who focuses all his energy and passion on the music he creates. Throughout the film, we come to understand that Fenriz [...]