GMD Poll: Burzum's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Burzum's 11 studio albums. Order and number each album 1-11. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 11 points, your second place album earns 10 points, etc.

Rules:

• You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted.
• If you list less than 11 albums, the first placed album will still get 11 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until Friday, October 26th to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

And please, no pseudo-Machiavelli shit. Just rank them as you see them.

Burzum (1992)
Det som engang var (1993)
Hvis lyset tar oss (1994)
Filosofem (1996)
Dauði Baldrs (1997)
Hliðskjálf (1999)
Belus (2010)
Fallen (2011)
Umskiptar (2012)
Sôl austan, Mâni vestan (2013)
The Ways of Yore (2014)

 

[CiG]

The Venom Award round.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Burzum - 7/10, a genuinely good album that at least deserves credit for its innovation
2. Filosofem - 5/10, great sound, songwriting leaves a lot to be desired
3. Belus - 5/10, will need to confirm but I remember this being ok
4. Hliðskjálf - 5/10, better than Daddy Ballerz but doesn't say much, unremarkable but ok
5. Det som engang var - 4/10, half the tracks are basically sketches or interludes, the other half range from crap to just decent, a mess, that 1989 demo or whatever Varg recently confirmed is more coherent and thought-out than this
6. Dauði Baldrs - 3/10, most low-tier video game soundtracks are better than this
7. Hvis lyset tar oss - 2/10, two horseshit do-nothing Manilla Road-tier songs, one that has a legitimately interesting ambient approach, and then 30 minutes of bloopy filler shit

 

[CiG]

Dauði Baldrs
Det Som Engang Var
Hliðskjálf
Berzom
Filosofem
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Fallen
The Ways of Yore (I have listened to this one several times on Varg's YT channel, great for background sounds while doing things)
Umskiptar
Belus
Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan

 

[jimmy101]

Good stuff, good stuff. Will post my list after work this evening. This thread is the perfect excuse for me to blast Burzum until 2am tonight.

 

[The Ozzman]

In order:

Fallen
Belus
Filosofem
Burzum
His Lyset Tar Oss
Det Som Engang Var
Hildskjalf

I'm looking forward to the HLTO circle jerk for 5 pages

The Venom Award round.

Nah that was the Manilla Road thread

 

[CiG]

Nah that was the Manilla Road thread

 

[The Ozzman]

 

[CiG]

 

[The Ozzman]

Jesus if that's real he had some good dental work done haha

 

[CiG]

Jesus if that's real he had some good dental work done haha

You'd think so but...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Jesus if that's real he had some good dental work done haha

Were you able to recognize him by just his face or was that photo reminiscent of some other photo or video footage you had seen of him at that age?

 

[The Ozzman]

Were you able to recognize him by just his face

Yes

 

[Krow]

His purely ambient albums are fucking awful and unlistenable in general. If you have to listen to something as background music, why bother? Standalone ambient is a trash genre anyway.

1. Filosofem
2. Burzum
3. Det Som Engang Var
4. Fallen
5. Hvis lyset tar oss
6. Belus
7. Umskiptar
8. Hliðskjálf
9. Dauði Baldrs
10. The Ways of Yore
11. Sôl austan, Mâni vestan

 

[CiG]

If you have to listen to something as background music, why bother?

The fuck does this even mean?

 

[Krow]

If I can only tolerate listening to something by doing other shit and trying to forget I’m listening to it, it sucks.

 

[CiG]

If I can only tolerate listening to something by doing other shit and trying to forget I’m listening to it, it sucks.

Are you retarded? Who said anything about that being the only way to listen to it? Different music is good for different things. I put on certain music before bed, I put on certain music while working out, I put on certain music while reading etc. This doesn't mean that's the only way I can stomach said music. It's weird that I have to explain this basic shit.

most low-tier video game soundtracks are better than this

Most low-tier video game soundtracks are better than Byrzam and most black metal in general.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Most low-tier video game soundtracks are better than Byrzam and most black metal in general.

Ehhhh it can get pretty borderline at times

 

[The Ozzman]

If I can only tolerate listening to something by doing other shit and trying to forget I’m listening to it, it sucks.

This describes marriage perfectly

 

[CiG]