“IT’S NOT A SATANIC thing, it’s a nationalist heathen thing,” or so says Varg Qisling Larssn Vikernes, a.k.a Count Grishnackh, a.k.a. Burzum, one of the most notorious figures of the Scandinavian ...

I can honestly say I’ve never had a more complicated relationship with a band than I’ve had with Burzum. Despite an ongoing fascination and reluctant adoration of black metal, I managed to ...

Belus, Varg Vikernes' first post-prison recording/first Burzum album in 11 years, is out 3/8 via Byelobog. Listen to samples at Amazon. Besides the intro/outro, he's ditched the synthesized dark ...

Varg Vikernes has been especially active since his release from prison in 2009: This Spring he's unleashing Fallen, Burzum's second post-incarceration collection, and eighth album overall. (It's the ...

Chaining digital distortion to scathing sheets of sound, this one-man black metal band from Buffalo brings to mind shoegaze while also worshiping at the altar of Burzum. Save this story Save this ...

Burzum's long awaited comeback after 11 years of silence was a quiet one: 2010's Belus was generally well received but in many ways flew beneath the radar of most metal websites, failing to make most ...