Burzum - Belus (aka "Den Hvite Guden") (2010)

[unknown]

HLTO = first for me.

 

[Koude Haat]

I'm more excited about the new Master's Hammer album tbh.

 

[Einherjar86]

Filosofem would probably be my favorite, but "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is my favorite Burzum track.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Tomhet is my favorite song from HLTO I think, even though the other three songs are amazing too.

 

[skeptik]

I think that HLTO is the strongest primarily due to its cohesion, as evident in the fact that it was the only album actually written as a holistic framework, or rather a homogeneous suite, whereas the other albums are more ad hoc affairs assembled from songs written at various times. I think that DSEV is clearly the worst of the first four, but then again it's better than most band's best albums.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

HLTO is definitely the most "homogeneous" of all the first four suites. I feel like the debut is the most fragmented, with some filler (even though I do love Dungeons of Darkness), DSEV is the next most fragmented to me, and Filosofem comes close to HLTO in terms of working as an "album."

 

[Anticitizen One]

I agree about HLTO's cohesion, and this only adds to its ritualistic atmosphere, which I think is culminated on "Inn I Slottet Fra Drǿmmen" -- incidentally my favorite track on the album and possibly my very favorite Burzum song.

Also agreeing on DSEV, I rarely put that one on...

 

[cookiecutter]

I think that HLTO is the strongest primarily due to its cohesion, as evident in the fact that it was the only album actually written as a holistic framework, or rather a homogeneous suite, whereas the other albums are more ad hoc affairs assembled from songs written at various times. I think that DSEV is clearly the worst of the first four, but then again it's better than most band's best albums.

What a load of pseudo-intellectual claptrap. Firstly, it's a black metal album, and referring to it as a "suite" is seventeen shades of the gayest gay and should be ceased henceforth.

 

[-CC-]

Cookie beat me to it.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I'm guessing you don't get the reference.

I'm surprised about the comments regarding DSEV. I like it quite a lot, and probably prefer it to the debut - although it's been many months since I've listened to either. I mostly listen to HLTO (my favourite by miles) and Filosofem these days, but one really can't go wrong with any of the metal albums.

 

[Evil?]

CC, I think maybe you missed the joke in that post. It may be becasue it was my first Burzum album, but I love DSEV and used to put it on more than any other. Now it is more likely to be HLTO or Filosofem that gets put on, but I think the debut is my least played but that has nothing to do with its lacking in quality that is just the way it seems to be.

 

[-CC-]

I feel dumb right now because I have no clue what the previous two posters are talking about..AT ALL! All I said was that Cookie beat me to the punch when it came to making fun of Dodens post because it was dramatically homosexual.. I don't see what reference you guys are talking about

EDIT: I didn't realize both me and cookie could be referred to as CC...but I spose it doesn't matter since I'm on the same boat as him anyway

 

[Evil?]

The homogeneous suite joke is in reference to a poster (I forget who) who was shitting on Reign In Blood I beleive and said it was bland and a Homogeneous Suite that lacked variety. He was laughed at for his use of the term and it has been used as a joke ever since.

 

[-CC-]

Aha, I would like to extend my apologies to Dodens for expressing my view on his post as it was an ignorant one.

 

[Satanstoenail]

What a load of pseudo-intellectual claptrap. Firstly, it's a black metal album, and referring to it as a "suite" is seventeen shades of the gayest gay and should be ceased henceforth.

 

[Anticitizen One]

Sometimes you people are pretty funny.

 

[cookiecutter]

 

[skeptik]

I'm guessing you don't get the reference.

I'm surprised about the comments regarding DSEV. I like it quite a lot, and probably prefer it to the debut - although it's been many months since I've listened to either. I mostly listen to HLTO (my favourite by miles) and Filosofem these days, but one really can't go wrong with any of the metal albums.

Don't get me wrong, like I said it is a great album, but (and I'm speaking of Burzum/Aske here) I don't hear anything as brilliant as "My Journey to the Stars" or "Stemmen Fra Tårnet" or "A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit" on DSEV.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

The homogeneous suite joke is in reference to a poster (I forget who) who was shitting on Reign In Blood I beleive and said it was bland and a Homogeneous Suite that lacked variety. He was laughed at for his use of the term and it has been used as a joke ever since.

Actually that's only halfway accurate. The poster was shitting on RIB and saying that the songs were too short/uninteresting etc. I said to approach the album like you would a 'suite'... i.e. the songs form small bits of a greater overall whole. So I'm to blame for that classic term.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

thoth is the real enemy! burn him!