| Burzum |
| Genre(s) |
| Black Metal, Ambient |
| Lyrical theme(s) |
| Folklore, Fantasy, Gloom, Darkness, Longing |
| Origin |
Formed in |
Current label |
Status |
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Norway
(Bergen) |
1989 |
Misanthropy |
Active |
| Current line-up | Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes (b. Kristian Vikernes) - Vocals, All Instruments (Old Funeral, Mayhem (Nor), Uruk-Hai (Nor), Satanel (Nor)) | | Former/past member(s) |
| Tomas "Samoth" Thormodsaeter Haugen - Bass (on "Aske") (Arcturus (Nor), Emperor, Embryonic, Gorgoroth, Ildjarn, Satyricon, Scum (Nor), Thou Shalt Suffer, Zyklon, Zyklon-B (Nor), Xerasia, Notodden All Stars) | | Additional notes | Kristian Vikernes was born on the 11th of February 1973 at 21:58 in Bergen, Norway. In 1993, he legally changed Kristian to Varg and later started to use the name Varg Qisling Larssųn Vikernes as his pen-name. Varg, which means "wolf", says that he's related to the Quisling family, a name that even became an international word for "traitor" (similar to "Judas") after Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian political leader during the second world war, who founded a collaborationist pro-Nazi government. One [...]
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