Varg Vikernes wechselt zukünftig das Genre: Statt Metal gibt es nun „instrumental electronic music“:
Varg VikernesAround this Summer I will release a new Burzum album, with the title «Sôl austan, Mâni vestan».
«Sôl austan, Mâni vestan» will feature ≈58 minutes of instrumental electronic music, that can best be described as relaxing, slow-paced, contemplative and very much original. You have not heard anything like this before, although we can compare it to other electronic music, such as Tangerine Dream – and I guess to old electronic Burzum music as well.
«Sôl austan, Mâni vestan» is, just like the other three so-called post-prison Burzum albums were, a concept album. I have still not been able to leave behind the Pagan religious-spiritual concept of a descent into darkness and the following ascend back into the light; the Pagan initiation, the elevation of man to the divine, the enlightenment of the mind, the feeding of the elven light in man. Nor have I been able to leave behind the Old Norwegian (i. e. Norse) language, although, since the album is instrumental, it is used only for track titles this time.The track list for «Sôl austan, Mâni vestan» is as follows;
Sôl austan («East of the Sun»)
Rûnar munt þû finna («You shall find Secrets»)
Sôlarrâs («Sun-journey»)
Haugaeldr («Burial Mound Fire»)
Feðrahellir («Forebear-Cave»)
Sôlarguði («Sun-god»)
Ganga at sôlu («Deasil»)
Hîð («Bear’s Lair»)
Heljarmyrkr («Death’s Darkness»)
Mâni vestan («West of the Moon»)
Sôlbjörg («Sunset»)Being an instrumental album, and a purely electronic album too, «Sôl austan, Mâni vestan» is naturally very different from e. g. «Umskiptar», my latest metal album. Yet again I have left behind the metal genre and have chosen a different path – but for no other reason than me following my Pagan spirit willingly to wherever it takes me. This time it kindly took me to East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Das neue Ambient(?)-Album könnte entweder sehr interessant oder richtig ätzend werden. Lassen wir uns mal überraschen.
Seine Entscheidung, nach dem enttäuschenden, da auf der Stelle tretenden „Umskiptar“ etwas Neues auszuprobieren, finde ich jedenfalls gut.
Ich wage mal die Prognose, daß er in spätestens 10 Jahren dann richtige Orchestermusik macht, irgendwo zwischen Grieg und Wagner (natürlich nicht auf deren Niveau, aber ihr wißt, was ich meine).