Fallen (Burzum-Album)
Occupation
All instruments: Varg Vikernes
Genesis
The songs were written in the period from November 2009 to December 2010. In January 2011, announced Burzum distribution Plastic Head Distribution, Varg Vikernes that have recorded a new album, Fallen, which was to be released on March 7, 2011. Stylistically, there should be a mixture of the previous Belus and the second album Det som var engang that to be more dynamic and harder than Belus with a "bigger" sound, but still carry the typical melodies that made so iconic and unique Burzum.
Vikernes himself compared the album with an intersection of its predecessor with some new, more from the debut album Burzum and Det som var engang as of Hvis Lyset tar oss or Filosofem inspired. The sound is dynamic, the album was mastered like classical music, and he was experimental in every respect than Belus. What is meant is, according to Vikernes, the sound dynamic and radio broadcasting was inappropriate, and the dynamic sound with Burzum was so much a part of the music as the melodies themselves Lyrically, it resembles the debut album to the extent that it is more personal and focuses on existential issues, the mythological undertone of Belus was but still present. He had also integrated with the short intro and a longer outro some ambient tracks.
Title list
Music and lyrics by Varg Vikernes.
Style of music and texts
Vikernes relies on traps continues the stylistic evolution of its predecessor Belus. The album is the Black Metal " has been deeply influenced and affected, by now a bit far removed " by Burzum albums of the 1990s. V.ic V.icious A- Blaze According to Vikernes is so " about to let his creation behind ". The music is melodic and less monotonous, the singing varied than on previous albums.
Cosmo Lee of Invisible Oranges According to the text are strongly related death; his question to Vikernes whether mortality for this currently is an important topic that has been denied by the latter; Vikernes added that the death, Lee see in traps was also a rebirth, an eternal circle. There was in the " European world view " no definite beginning and no end, as in " Judeo - Christianity " about the Garden of Eden and the Last Judgment, and no taboo of death.
Says Vikingsgaard of Bleeding for Metal, who believe " that at least the Norwegian texts maintain a politically incorrect style " mistaken " enormous "; Vikernes sing " fervently of transcendental fantasies about Norse mythology ," as they would be conceivable even with Amon Amarth. Who " any political ambitions," with the album associate, was for him " a moron and should think very well and research before he expresses himself on this subject ." However Enhver til sitt represents each his own, which also stood at the gate of the concentration camp Buchenwald, this in meaning to each what he deserves, and will be explained in the same sense of Vikernes. Furthermore, the text plays healing to Budstikken with the verses " Hirden. Fremmad for vårt blod og all vår jord. / Fylking fremmad! Fylking marsj! "On the blood- and - soil ideology and with the name" ørkenguden " the presentation of Judaism and of Christianity as " Different type of " " desert religions ". On Lee's question about the enemy, that covered the song Vikernes replied: "The parasitical low- lives leeching on mankind and turning our species into slaves and sub-human scum. " This is a reference is to the conspiracy theory that "World Jewry" would enslave the " Aryans ". Compared with MetalSucks, he stated that he had himself censored so as not to be too politically incorrect, because there is nowhere give true freedom of speech. While Budstikken is a battle cry, negotiated the remaining songs of personal issues. Lyrically, the album is a more personal and more focused version of the self - Belus concept.
The album begins with the title Ambient Fra Verden Street ( Introduksjon ), but not with the earlier instrumental pieces as Tomhet or Rundtgåing av the transcendental egenhetens støtte is comparable.
The first "real" song, Jeg faller, " initially quite Black Metal Character: A fast, driving rhythm; distorted vocals; the frosty biting guitar. "Building is typical of Burzum. However, in the song are spoken passages of text and background vocals used. The text is about the case of the narrator from the World Tree to the bottom, " by the time; down into the abyss, void and Timeless. "
Typical of Burzum are the following songs Valen, in which the narrator as the " answer to all the riddles " longing for death, with a length of almost 10 minutes and repeating riffs, and Vanvidd that reminds død to Jesus.
Guitar and singing with Enhver til sitt burzum are not typical, as are rock, thrash and folk -metal -heavy riffs and the sometimes harsh, sometimes clear voice with Budstikken. The production emphasizes the guitar, while the bass and drums fade into the background.
Shaping
The cover is a detail from the painting Élégie the French painter William Adolphe Bouguereau, one is also to be seen on one of the labels of the LP version. The fracture lettering of the predecessor Belus was replaced by a simple Times New Roman font. This Vikernes wanted his own statement, Burzum have no logo accent. Between the text to find mythological illustrations.
Reception
V.ic V.icious A- Blaze emphasized the departure from the Black Metal Burzum and called traps as " a very personal album, as Varg has also said ". One can " certainly listen to the album just for music's sake. But that would be an equally short-sighted behavior as in the viewer of a painting, the only look at the pigments on the canvas. BURZUM is an aspect of the personality of Varg Vikernes. His books are another aspect. His biography, and his belief, anyway. It will be one without the other can not have, that's for sure. "Gypsy boy of black news, however, situate Burzum with his remark that he knew of " no other contemporary band (especially not from Norway), now the Black Metal of the 1990s even the plays and lives as this man, " still in the Black Metal; He described Vikernes as " [ ei] n the last remaining veteran far from today's standards ." Vikernes had " forgotten anything and knows how to make the listener addicted to his music "; Fallen is his best work since Filosofem. For Thomas L. of Nonpop makes the change between clear and guttural vocals, the " [n ] ot a few reviewers " the predecessor criticized, " a lot of the mood; Vikernes scores immensely with the fact that he so uses his voice as the least expect: soft and fragile. " Traps for him was " one of the best albums of BURZUM at all ", but will not like the headphones which could predecessor Belus not get anything.