Burzum   The Ways of Yore
2.7
average
Release Date: 06/2014
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1.5 very poorTrey STAFF | June 17th 14

This guy and Mortiis should get together and write a concept album about fairies. In the liner notes they can thank their 1982 Casio keyboards for providing years of inspiration. Varg can add a little personal note about how it was his Casio that got him through years of prisoners using him for games of butt darts. Seriously, 16-Bit Castlevania games provided better soundtracks.

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3.0 goodAngryNeighbor | June 1st 14

This is not bad at all if you can stand amateurish cheesy synth effects (actually if you're into black metal generally)

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0.0 Lambda | June 25th 14

Boring as hell. The truly awful chanted/spoken vocals by Varg do nothing to help matters. Furthermore, the decision to end the album with re-records of two songs from previous records is just lazy. I get that "To Hel and Back Again" is noticeably different from its predecessor, "Til Hel og tilbake igjen," but that song was just released on Fallen 3 years ago. Recycling such recent material just screams laziness to me- unless there's some big "concept" connecting the re-recorded songs to their predecessors (which I doubt). A few cool effects save The Ways of Yore from a 1... barely. 1.5

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2.0 poorKing Koopa | May 16th 22

a mostly empty cavern containing a handful of mournful old goblins

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2.0 poorErwann S. STAFF | October 8th 19

Oooooooooooooooooof. That was painful. This is pure boringness brought to us by a madman.

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1.0 awfulManiacBlasphemer | September 26th 19

More ambient dross. This kind of music is just awful, even a lazy-ass man or woman can pull out something more musical our of their asses than Varg can from his idiotic ambient sounds. The guy may have had a glimmer of talent in combining skillfully ambient with black metal, but he clearly sucks at making a purely ambient album. And I can't blame him, ambient music is an oxymoron. This record reeks of amateurism and it is like Varg was under the assumption that his fanatical fanbase would pretty much buy even his recordings of farts and label them as the epitome of musical expression. There is no music here, just pointless drivel going on and on for tens of minutes until it is finally over. It is as if you force the entire world to endure 1 hour of Apocalypse only to return back to their normal lives. Utter garbage.

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1.0 awfulArditi | June 28th 19

Now that Varg is a Youtube-frequenting family man living in the French countryside, its understandable that he would make a simple ambient album as opposed to black metal. Only it would be better if it was actually decent ambient instead of complete repetition in the form of the same ridiculously indescribable sound. Album borderlines annoying, and you'll wish it was over as soon as it begins.

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2.0 pooruser static | May 17th 19

borezum

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1.0 awfulEasterInTheBatcave | December 3rd 15

Another dull Burzum record. This is more boring dark ambient that he's done better in the past. Furthermore, it ends with two re-records of songs from his previous albums, one of which was released on Fallen only three years prior to this one. Very lazy.

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