new BURZUM album (again!?)

[einride]

Burzum persists. A new Burzum album, titled "Umskiptar" (Metamorphoses), is scheduled for release in May 2012 on Byelobog Productions. "Umskiptar" consists of 65 minutes of skaldic metal, recorded in Grieghallen Studio in Bergen in September 2011.

"Umskiptar" track list:
Blóðstokkinn (Soaked in Blood) (1:16)
Jóln (Deities) (5:51)
Alfadanz (Elven Dance) (9:22)
Hit helga Tré (The sacred Tree) (6:51)
Æra (Honour) (3:58)
Heiðr (Esteem) (3:02)
Valgaldr (Song of the Fallen) (8:03)
Galgviðr (Gallow Forest) (7:16)
Surtr Sunnan (Black from the South) (4:14)
Gullaldr (Golden Age) (10:20)
Níðhöggr (Attack from Below) (5:00)

The lyrics on "Umskiptar" are all taken from a Norse poem, Völuspá. For an English translation of the lyrics see the book "Sorcery And Religion In Ancient Scandinavia". The original Norse lyrics for "Umskiptar" can be found here.


aoty 2012

 

[swizzlenuts]

summoning will be the aoty

 

[Krilons Resa]

sweet cover art imo

 

[Vittra]

summoning will be the aoty

wrathprayer or lunar aurora

sweet cover art imo

took him a few tries but he got there!

 

[swizzlenuts]

I think the summoning will be better than Lunar Aurora

 

[Hell Mike]

aoty 2012

.

 

[lurch70]

Agalloch posted this another thread ...

Burzum - Umskiptar

http://www.psychocydd.co.uk/details....4f0c9634bfb125

go for it.

 

[lurch70]

fuck this ... 4 tracks in and he's still "reading" me this poem. yes, reading.

 

[Ars Magna]

Varg likes $ as much as the next guy.

 

[lurch70]

 

[Ellestin]

this album is a snoozefest of the highest order. Wherever Varg is going from here, small chance I'll follow.

 

[einride]

tentatively agreeing somewhat with the above

 

[Hell Mike]

Not bothering until someone says otherwise, then. Still haven't given Fallen more than like two listens anyway and that one will get 'em as deserved.

 

[einride]

fallen is very, very good apart from one or two songs

this one is kind of hmmmm

 

[einride]

his car: a self-painted camouflage LADA NIVA

this man is living the freakin dream

 

[Vittra]

you really can't tell that it's self painted

 

[einride]

also varg is not pronouncing the icelandic correctly


<-- this is me irl

 

[lurch70]

his car: a self-painted camouflage LADA NIVA

this man is living the freakin dream

was Gaahl involved in that paint job?

 

[MetalNations]

is he out of jail?

 

[neal]

nah, they're allowed to have spears and chainmail in norwegian prison.