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1.5 very poor | Trey 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 good | AngryNeighbor | 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 poor | King Koopa | May 16th 22 | a mostly empty cavern containing a handful of mournful old goblins
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2.0 poor | Erwann 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 awful | ManiacBlasphemer | 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 awful | Arditi | 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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1.0 awful | EasterInTheBatcave | 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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1.0 awful | nbats | February 12th 25 |
4.0 excellent | Scuro EMERITUS | January 14th 25 |
3.5 great | haxxiy | February 23rd 23 |
1.0 awful | Aurora | January 5th 23 |
2.5 average | Get Low | February 1st 22 |
2.0 poor | Azrael | December 1st 21 |
2.5 average | Qualeen | October 29th 21 |
4.0 excellent | BigBlob | September 16th 21 |
1.0 awful | Jerrad | August 24th 21 |
1.5 very poor | yayafa | February 4th 21 |
4.0 excellent | stefan77 | December 20th 20 |
3.0 good | bSmith | December 19th 20 |
3.0 good | remi | May 8th 20 |
3.0 good | Brabiz | March 18th 20 |
3.0 good | Suyan | February 24th 20 |
1.5 very poor | Vasilis S. CONTRIBUTOR | February 5th 20 |
3.0 good | yoil | December 31st 19 |
3.0 good | KAP111 | December 20th 19 |
3.0 good | Sarah | December 5th 19 |
1.5 very poor | Stakis83 | November 15th 19 |
1.5 very poor | kodama | October 18th 19 |
2.5 average | Faraudo | September 26th 19 |
2.5 average | Eons | June 7th 19 |
4.5 superb | hussam | April 30th 19 |
2.5 average | JS98 | March 30th 19 |
2.5 average | blou52 | December 19th 18 |
2.5 average | Rager99 | October 21st 18 |
3.0 good | Sapee | August 20th 18 |
1.5 very poor | solrage | July 27th 18 |
3.5 great | Gary STAFF | April 19th 18 |
4.0 excellent | Aranox | February 23rd 18 |
1.0 awful | Nomos | January 26th 18 |
2.0 poor | orakst | December 22nd 17 |
3.5 great | Fear | December 10th 17 |
3.5 great | Spaten | October 16th 17 |
3.0 good | ckssr1 | August 27th 17 |
4.0 excellent | GazAldo | June 30th 17 |
2.5 average | chanson | February 10th 17 |
2.5 average | Henry | October 16th 16 |
4.0 excellent | YakNips | October 10th 16 |
3.5 great | Deubah | October 7th 16 |
3.0 good | manosg EMERITUS | October 1st 16 |
3.0 good | Jeejee | September 27th 16 |
2.0 poor | Stormii | September 27th 16 |
3.5 great | elch21 | August 18th 16 |
1.0 awful | Elynna | August 6th 16 |
1.0 awful | stakis | July 11th 16 |
2.0 poor | Thor | April 21st 16 |
3.5 great | esav | January 20th 16 |
1.5 very poor | DazSkunk | September 30th 15 |
1.5 very poor | Fozzie | September 26th 15 |
3.0 good | HoB | July 21st 15 |
3.0 good | Veldin | March 14th 15 |
5.0 classic | Hamed | March 9th 15 |
1.0 awful | Aion | March 6th 15 |
2.5 average | Prole | February 16th 15 |
3.0 good | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
2.0 poor | wil94 | January 29th 15 |
2.0 poor | Vader | October 23rd 14 |
3.5 great | Pherin | September 22nd 14 |
2.5 average | Surtur | July 27th 14 |
2.0 poor | Ayil | July 23rd 14 |
1.5 very poor | Kheshef | July 13th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Chorbo | July 5th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Alastor | June 20th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Simon K. STAFF | June 15th 14 |
2.0 poor | virpi | June 15th 14 |
5.0 classic | ermwa | June 3rd 14 |
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