![]() ![]() But people made one huge mistake when they labeled this work as a natural continuation of the last ambient album Burzum released. He made the statement before releasing this work, and he partially confirmed it after releasing it. Sôl austan, Mâni vestan is Varg's practical statement that his business with the black metal scene is over. While not bad, Umskiptar had some flaws that made the overall experience tiresome like the length being one of the main problems, Varg's vocal performance and some inconsistencies in terms of song-writing. ![]() Both Belus and Fallen were good, musicaly wise (except for Varg's vocals), retaining much of the elements from the early Burzum albums (though with a better production quality) but Umskiptar already started to raise some question marks regarding Varg's ability to create musical quality rather than quantity (3 albums in 3 years). Mayhem had a similar fate, getting known through the imagery and the extreme stupidity of some of the band members instead of their musical endeavours, a bad thing since Mayhem is probably the most original out of all old school black metal bands managing to do not sound the same album after album.Īfter 15 years of prison, Varg Vikernes releases Belus, a much anticipated album by a fan-base eager to listen to a proper follow-up to Filosofem after two mediocre to disappointing ambient albums (I'll give him credit for the lack of logistics in prison). No offense to Varg, but he sure made a lot of waves in his youth with his escapades and while I do not contest the value of his early works, I still do wonder if he got known and appreciated through them. According to Varg Vikernes, this is a concept album about "a descent into darkness and the following ascend back into the light the Pagan initiation, the elevation of man to the divine, the enlightenment of the mind, the feeding of the elven light in man".Sometimes I have to wonder if Burzum is known for the shenanigans of the mastermind behind it or for the music. All the song titles are in Old Icelandic. Sôl austan, Mâni vestan is Old Icelandic for "east of the sun, west of the moon". Sôl austan, Mâni vestan is inspired by and made for the ForeBears movie by Marie Cachet and Varg Vikernes, where much of the Scaldic music from Sôl austan, Mâni vestan appears, only in unmastered form, as a soundtrack.Īrtwork presents the painting titled Rape of Proserpina by the Spanish painter Ulpiano Checa (1888). ![]()
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