“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...