Burzum – Winds of the Vanished Realm (2024)

May 23, 2024

It perhaps says a lot about the state of Burzum in 2024 if a near 15-minute long atmospheric piano piece has you thinking “hey, this isn’t half bad!”. What would usually be filler or an ambient piece to round things out has actually cemented itself as the most interesting thing to come from the project in 2024. This is mainly because of the stark difference between the work here and the other lacklustre black metal demos that Varg has been pumping on in anno domini 2024.

Winds of the Vanished Realm reminds me of a more long-form attempt at what the project was doing with the various online-only single thats came in the years leading up to the Thulean Mysteries double album.

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