Burzum - Black Metal

Burzum - Black Metal

Developing alongside the other Norwegian inventors of the early 1990s black metal movement, namely Mayhem and Darkthrone, one-man band Burzum not only produced some of the most insightful music to come from the genre - notably with 1993's Hvis Lyset Tars Oss which raised the bar so high, it effectively ended the black metal genre - but lent expertise to other bands like Mayhem and Darkthrone, before moving on to creating atmospheric ambient work with Hliðskjálf.

Conceived to 'stimulate the fantasy of mortals', the music of Burzum is pure atmosphere of blackness, death, disease and paradoxically, grandeur, life and majesty. What once was...

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The List of Burzum Albums

Here are some of the best Burzum albums.