I am soooo not TRVE KVLT like I thought!
I had no idea Varg Vilkernes (otherwise known as "Count Somethingfromlordoftherings"), otherwise known as the one-man-band BURZUM was released from prison and recording again!
Those of you unfamiliar with "The Count" (I think he's just going under "Varg" these days) - he's one of the cornerstone foundations of Norwegian Black Metal.
Varg after making some pancakes.
Imprisioned in 1993 for killing one of the blokes from Mayhem, inciting the burning of three churches and nicking some pick 'n' mix he's been sat in his cell in Norway since then, only getting the odd break when someone comes in to interview him for a documentary, which must be about once a week.
Before all this he whacked out albums with his one-man project BURZUM, which is the building blocks of everything Troo Black Metal that came out afterwards basically. He knocked out a few albums in jail using a Casio C90 keyboard, a tape recorder, a knife and fork and some sticky-tape. They were not that good.
But now he's out! Out of jail, not the other sort of "out". Like last year and I never knew it.
Anyway, his latest album BELUS is a MOOONNNSTERRR!!!! I kid you not, 'arr lass got it on Friday and we've maybe played it about 12 times since then.
He's returned in true style, putting together a proper BM album which even isn't slightly (anti)religious or slightly iffy neo-nazi. No siree, every track is a monster belter, especially the track "Kaimadalthas' Nedstigning" (A Lovely Bunch Of Flowers in a Vase)*
New album coming out again soon - out with the corpse paint, gasoline and matches!
*I may have made that up.
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Hey what's up!
Armando from Mexico here.
i also love the music, but can't seem to get past the fact that he's/was a full blown racist. That just doesn't fly whit me.
i saw this documentary last night called "Global Metal" by Samuel Dunn, and there he interviewed a guy from a band from Israel I think called Salem. The thing is this guys back in the day wrote a BM song about the holocaust, saying it was awful and such. And the tape got to Varg`s hands and he wrote Salem telling them something like "the music is fine but the lyrics are dumb, I wish Hitler was alive and wipe all of you from earth"
So the guys in Salem worte him and angry letter back. And a few weeks later, police comes knocking at this Salem guy's house and they're like:
"Who hates you in Norway"
and the guy says "I don't know, why?"
And the pigs answer "Well there's a bomb-letter in the mail for you, comign form Norway"
So that's my story, Varg's a cunt.
Whoa!
Yeah, he's a bit border line - don't worry, the world's revenge will be that bloke from Twilight playing him in the Lords Of Chaos film.
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