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BURZUM BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Burzum | |
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FORMER NAMES
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Uruk-Hai | |
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ORIGIN
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Bergen, Hordaland, Norway | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1987 | |
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LABEL
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Currently unsigned | |
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GENRE
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Black metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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War | |
| BAND ADDED | 2005-12-29, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2011-07-18, 12:25 | |
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| Band biography |
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'
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