Burzum sememangnya band black metal ambient yang cukup dikenali rami. Diangotai oleh seorang penganut black metal yang sadis.
Kenapa sadis? Kerana kehebatannya membunuh rakan seanutan dari puak Mayhem pada tahun 1993. Dia dipenjara atas tuduhan membunuh selama 21 tahun. Si Kejam itu dikenali sebagai Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (ataupun Count Grishnackh).
Lagu-lagu ciptaannya agak straight forward dan tak terlalu kejam tetapi menjadi legenda hingga kini. Vokalnya menjerit-jerit seakan-akan ingin melepaskan geram yang telah lama terbuku. Namun geramnya itu hanya mampu dilepaskan di sebalik pagar besi Norway selama 21 tahun.
Untuk lebih info pergilah ke SINI pasti lu orang kenal siapa SI KEJAM INI. Ini pulak sample lagu dari Burzum yang dibawakan oleh Dies Nefastus "Når Himmelen Klarner"
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".
Founded in 1991 by Norwegian Satanist Count Grishnackh (real name Varg Vikernes), Burzum became one of the leading lights in Scandinavia's black metal revival of the early 1990s. Largely a solo project, Grishnackh composes, sings and plays almost all of Burzum's material himself. The project first surfaced under the name of Uruk-Hai in 1987. Significantly, the name was drawn from J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, The Lord Of The Rings, in which the Uruk-Hai were a particularly brutal tribe of orcs (the subhuman villains of the book). Burzum was the orcish language, while Grishnackh was a treacherous orc who plays a small, but pivotal, role in the proceedings. Count Grishnackh used Tolkien's epic struggle between good and evil as a model for his own brand of Satanism, casting himself among the hordes of darkness.
Grishnackh went on to collaborate with Euronymous, godfather of the Scandinavian black metal revival, playing with the latter's band Mayhem, releasing material on his Deathlike Silence Productions (DSP) label, and playing a leading part in the curious hate cult known as the Black Metal Circle. Meanwhile, Burzum recordings were receiving increasing acclaim on the heavy metal underground, with their tortured mix of overheated guitars, screamed vocals and strange, ambient keyboards. In the spring of 1993, Grishnackh, along with a number of other prominent members of the Black Metal Circle, was arrested for a series of church burnings. Several months later, Grishnackh was arrested for the brutal murder of Euronymous.
He was subsequently convicted in 1994, but showed no remorse for his crime, instead relishing the consequent notoriety and publicity. Sentenced to 21 years (the maximum possible under Norwegian law), Grishnackh continues to record increasingly strange and twisted material in jail. Satanism and the works of Tolkien now take a back seat to the right-wing occultism and Viking paganism that are currently his chief obsessions, with many of his lyrics now sung in Old Norse. He managed to record 1997's Daudi Baldrs while in prison, using a keyboard and computer. Hlidskjalf followed in 1999.
