The Ways of Yore [LP]

by Burzum

Overview

Varg Vikernes made his name as one of the Norwegian black metal scene's more notorious figures early on, involved not just with the extreme music of Mayhem and other black metal groundbreakers, but also with church burnings, murder, and time spent in prison for his crimes. This is all old news to anyone familiar with Vikernes and his one-man project Burzum, a musical entity that shifted from early black metal darkness into progressively more and more ambient territory. With 11th album The Ways of Yore, Vikernes continues the foray into European medieval music that he began with 2013's Sol Austan, Mani Vestan. The album's inherent gloom comes not from the burning hatred and isolation that fueled earlier Burzum albums, but conveys the same intensity through its use of chant and traditional instruments of early Norwegian folk music, which wrap around Vikernes' signature use of ambient electronics to create a truly inspired web of harrowing sound. [Ways of Yore was also released on LP.] ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	08/05/2014
Label:	Back On Black
UPC:	0803341436442

Tracks

1. God from the Machine
2. The Portal
3. Heill Odinn
4. The Lady in the Lake
5. The Coming of Ettins
6. The Reckoning of Man
7. Heil Freyja
8. The Ways of Yore
9. Ek Fellr (I Am Falling)
10. Hall of the Fallen
11. Autumn Leaves
12. Emptiness
13. To Hell and Back Again

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Burzum   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Burzum   Producer,Design,Mixing,Composer
Dan Capp   Design