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A Tribute To Burzum

by Forest Wanderer

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A mother mourns the loss of her son. The most wonderful man in the world; light and shining, fair and beautiful as no other man. Light blond hair, wonderful skyblue eyes and a skin so fair it shines! Tall and handsome, strong and brave, perfect in all his being. Now he is dead! Silent. Alone. Watching the lands and others from a window up high in the clouds. Cold of sorrow, exhausted by grief; the very little remaining life is fading away. Too tired to move, too mournful to think of anything else then her dead son. The others are preparing the defense of the town, and her husband has left to find the avenger for the killing. Nobody thinks of her, nobody has any time for her. She is left alone, to mourn the death of her son.
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The gods have just managed to tie Fanjariho to the ground. Tiw lost his right hand during the process; it was the wolf's security, a guarantee he would not be tricked; but he was indeed. His jaw has been bolted to the ground with a broadsword, and foam runs from his mouth in two rivers. The rivers Wan and Wil - of hope and will. The gods are laughing in joy, and walk happily back towards their home; the terrible wolf has been rendered harmless. Only Tiw is left, bleeding heavily from the wrist, watching the suffering of the wolf, as it twists its body in torment. He looks into the eyes of Fanjariho and sees its very soul, its pain and sorrow; its dreadful faith. Getting up, he walks back to iron to let her heal his wound, stop his bleeding. Now he knows what it is like to see into the eyes of Fire. He will never be the same again, he did not only lose his hand, when on the island with the wolf.

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As a musician I take inspiration from many artists, both old and new, yet no one single artist has influenced my musical direction as much as Burzum has. Around age fifteen I discovered Black Metal and began to explore the second wave classics; it was during this time that I first heard Burzum’s Hliðskjálf album. This album was my introduction to ambient music, which opened up yet another new world of dark and mystical music to explore. While Burzum’s black metal albums perfectly captured the essence of longing, sorrow, nostalgia, and the pagan spirit which spoke to the deepest part of my soul, his ambient albums made me realize those same feelings could be expressed in electronic atmospheric music. The otherworldly sounds which only a synthesizer can make took me on many journeys into the unknown. Hliðskjálf also helped me realize that ideas can be expressed in music without vocals, thanks to the written concepts that accompany each song in the album’s booklet. This was the first time I encountered ideas or narratives expressed solely by musical arrangements without any words behind them at all. I always viewed the lone oboe section in Der Tod Wuotans as the moment where Wuotan falls on the battlefield, as the story that accompanies the song describes (to this day, Der Tod Wuotans is my personal favorite song in the genre). In my cover of Frijôs einsames Trauern I pay tribute to this with the chimes that sound at the beginning of the song, which should be interpreted as Frijô’s heart shattering with the death of her son.

There are many Burzum cover songs that have already been done, so I chose two songs from Hliðskjálf which are rarely (if ever) covered. These two songs have alternate titles, depending on the version of the album that you own (Frijôs einsames Trauern is also known as Das Einsame Trauern Von Frijô, and Einfühlungsvermögen as Die Kraft Des Mitgefühls), so I chose to use the titles as they appear on my version of the CD from many years ago. My intention is to pay as much respect as possible to the original songs, while adding my own musical ideas and arrangements to give them the essence of Forest Wanderer.

For Wuotan; Hail and Joy!

- Forest Wanderer, January 2018

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released January 9, 2018

All music and words by Varg Vikernes, interpreted and arranged by Forest Wanderer.
Cover artwork by Theodor Kittelsen.
'Einfühlungsvermögen' will appear on “Black Spells of Destruction: A Tribute to Burzum” double CD out on Azermedoth Records in summer 2018: azermedothrecords.tictail.com

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Atmospheric Dark Ambient inspired by Vinterriket, Moloch, Ildjarn, and Paysage d'hiver.

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