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BURZUM
CURRENT NAME	Burzum
FORMER NAMES	Uruk-Hai
ORIGIN	Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
STATUS	Disbanded (since 1994)
FORMED IN	1987
GENRE	Black metal
STYLE	-
LYRICAL THEME	War
BAND ADDED	2005-12-29, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2008-03-08, 21:04

Band biography

Burzum is the solo project of Varg (originally named Christian) Vikernes and started back in 1987, at the age of 14, under the name Urak-hai. He took a one-year break from mid-1990 to mid-1991 when he played in two other bands called Satanel and Old Funeral. Then he continued with Uruk-hai and changed the name to Burzum as Satanel split up. He quickly gained himself a name in the extreme metal underground and became even more famous when he was convicted of murdering Mayhem's Euronymous in 1994. Since then the band is no more but Burzum has become a cult band within the black metal scene. Varg also wrote some lyrics for the Darkthrone albums "Transylvanian Hunger" and "Panzerfaust".

About the early days:

Uruk-Hai was a project that later became Buzum. It was the first band of both Varg Vikernes and Fenriz of Darkthrone.

Fenriz and Varg met at a new years ever party when they were about 14. Fenriz placed a loaded .357 Magnum to Varg's forhead and accused him of calling him a 'Fatso'. A year or 2 later in about 1988 they formed Kalashnikov with a bassist who's name no one remembers. Because almost all the songs were about Lord of the Rings they changed the name of the band to Uruk-Hai (The name of Sauron's elite high orcs in lord of the rings, Grishnackh also is the name of one of these Uruk-Hai and even Burzum is taken from lotr, meaning darkness in the black speach of mordor.)

In 1989 when he was about 17 Varg left uruk-hai for a band with more 'serious musicians' called Old Funeral wich featured Abbath and Demonaz of Immoral.

He later left Old Funeral because we was unhappy with their death metal direction. And decided to reform Uruk-Hai by himself calling it Burzum. Parts of Uruk-Hai materal were later used for Burzum albums.

The only materal left from Uruk-Hai are 6 tracks released in a complation of early Burzum demos called 'Blast from the ancient past'

Former members Add - Fetch
Varg Vikernes	1987-1994	Bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals, drums	See also Mayhem, Satanel

Session musicians Add - Fetch
Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen		Bass	On Aske. See also Emperor, Ildjarn, Satyricon, Zyklon, Zyklon B
Gylve Nagell		Drums	Jammed with Varg for a few rehearsals. See also Aura Noir, Darkthrone, Satyricon

Buy Burzum albums

Official releases Add
1991	[demo]	No label
1991	[demo]	No label
1992	Burzum	Deathlike Silence Productions
1993	Aske	Deathlike Silence Productions
1993	Det Som Engang Var 10 / 10 Read our review here	Deathlike Silence Productions
1994	Hvis Lyset Tar Oss 3 9 / 10 Read our review here	Misanthropy
1996	Burzum	No label
1996	Filosofem 3 9.5 / 10 Read our review here	Misanthropy
1997	Daudi Baldrs	Misanthropy
1999	Hlidskjalf	Misanthropy

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