Burzum – Hvis Lyset Tar Oss [Vinyl]

A compositional leap forward, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (1994) contains only four massively droning glacial pieces and features electronic arrangements. After a brief keyboard-dominated overture, Det Som En Gang Var (14:21) sets about its business of anthemic extended distortion over steady drumming, accompanied by a nostalgic electronic melody. After seven minutes the guitar's tone becomes louder, sharper and sideral. The vocals finally enter after nine minutes: it's a terrible scream that dialogues with the stately keyboard theme, while the guitar takes the back seat.
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (8:05) pushes the boundaries of Burzum's noise. After a brief introduction of loud and dense instrumental chaos, the guitar intones a majestic melody although smothered into a layer of relentless distortion, while the screams get more and more desperate. Eventually the music returns to the original furious chaos.
For the pummeling rhythm of Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen (7:52) the guitar and the drums seem to compete in hysteria. The vocals do little to restore order, but suddenly a new guitar line emerges that is basically a modulated drone. This grows and establishes an actual melodic theme.
A feeble electronic line opens Tomhet (14:12), that for eleven minutes has absolutely no drumming. It is basically a quiet electronic sonata that could have been conceived for a new-age meditation session.
Burzum tried ever different avenues to pack its psychic force into sound, and, ultimately, conveyed a sense not so much of desperation as of angry impotence. Burzum's music can achieve a Wagner-ian intensity by simply repeating a slightly modulated distortion.

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Tracklist:

A1 Det Som En Gang Var 00:00
A2 Hvis Lyset Tar Oss 14:22
B3 Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen 22:26
B4 Tomhet 30:17

Genre: Black Metal
Year of release: 1994
Year of release: 2005
Disc manufacturer: UK, Back On Black BOBV016LP
Audio codec: FLAC
Rip type: image+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Duration: 0:45:00
Vinyl Condition: VG+
Playback device: Radiotehnika Arija EU-5208-Stereo
Preamplifier: native player, built-in
ADC: E-MU 0202 USB
Digitizer: Sound Forge 9.0
Processing: manual removal of big clicks (Sound Forge 9.0); compression (Flac fronted v. 1.7.1.)
Recording format (Bit/KHz): 24/96
Handout Format (Bit/kHz): 24/96