DarkThrone had a lyric on their “Soulside Journey” album that, I think, included this line: “If you call me evil I shall only stand proud”, with reference to how Judeo-Christians see all those who oppose their Hebrew gibberish as “evil”. Many other Death Metal musicians in Norway embraced this idea too, and in 1991 started to use Satanic imagery and Satanic terms, to simply express contempt for Judeo-Christianity. They were not “Satanists”, and they all strongly opposed e. g. the so-called “Church of Satan”, founded and then still led by the Jew Anton Szandor LaVey. They too were in oppsition to all of this, and as some might know “Satan” translates as simply “the opponent/adversary”, so it actually made sense. Burzum did not fall into this pit; there were no inverted crosses (apparently believed to be a Satanic symbol…) on any Burzum artwork and no Satanic lyrics, save perhaps with one exception; a song, just titled “Dominus Sathanas” (basically meaning: “the opposition (to Judeo-Christianity) is dominant”), with the lyrics consisting of the title of the track being repeated a few times. Burzum was my musical extension to my fascination for fantasy. Burzum was experimental sorcery and escapism, alternative philosophy, a way to systematize dreams and thoughts and also in a sense an aid for day-dreaming or even meditation. Each album was in fact made to be a “sleeping spell”, lulling the listener into sleep – and into the dream world, where everything is possible and where you are truly free. The name Burzum itself is, as many already know, a word (translated as “darkness”) from the poem written on the inside of the One Ring from Tolkien’s universe. Night is the death of the day, when our world is sent into darkness, and just like I was an “adversary” (a “Satan”) to Judeo-Christianity my darkness was not at all something bad. My darkness was an opportunity, not only to drift off into fantastic dreams, but also to start appreciating what is often seen as “evil” by “the Church”. VARG VIKERNES (Source - Thulean Perspective)
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:19:44 +0000
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