Aske (EP)
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Publication |
March 1993 |
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April and August 1992 |
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| Label (s) | Deathlike Silence Productions | |||
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Format (s) |
12 "EP, CD |
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Title (number) |
3 |
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running time |
20:02 |
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Studio (s) |
Grieghallen Studios |
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The EP Aske ( no . 'Asche') is the second release by the Norwegian black metal band Burzum . It was released in March 1993.
Emergence
The instrumental piece Dominus Sathanas was recorded in the Grieghallen studios in April 1992 , the other two titles in August. For the second and last time, Tomas "Samoth" Haugen from Emperor , who contributed the bass , played a guest musician at Burzum . The background was that Vikernes briefly toyed with the idea of performing live and looked around for suitable musicians. In an early interview he named Jan Axel Blomberg from Mayhem as the drummer , later he named Erik Olivier "AiwarikiaR" Lancelot (ex- Valhall , ex- Ulver ). However, there was never any performance.
Vikernes was arrested for the first time in January 1993 after printed flyers circulating in 1992 with the ruins of Fantoft stave church, which burned down on June 6, 1992 , and after publicly boasting in the Bergen daily newspaper Bergens Tidende about the crimes he and the Inner Circle had committed . He was charged with several attempted and committed arson attacks. Vikernes himself denied having set the stave church on fire. It is believed that he took the photo himself. He was released in March 1993 for lack of evidence.
In March 1993 Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth released the EP on his label Deathlike Silence Productions .
Artwork
On the EP cover is a photograph of the ruins of Fantoft stave church , which burned down completely in an arson attack on June 6, 1992. The first 1,000 copies of Aske came with a lighter with the motif of the cover printed on it. Ketil Sveen, co-founder of Voices of Wonder , who had taken over the distribution of all releases from Deathlike Silence Productions, produced the lighter as a promotional item for the EP. In retrospect, he called it "one of the stupidest things" he'd ever done. He claims not to have known anything about Vikernes' involvement in church arson foundations:
“ We figured if he was crazy enough to set fire to a church, he wouldn't be crazy enough to show it off too. We made the lighter because of the media attention it got. "
On the back there is a crossed-out image of Anton Szandor LaVey, who is hated in the Norwegian black metal scene, together with the words “no fun, no core, no mosh, no trend”.
Style and content
The songs are very repetitive and simple. The vocals consist of drawn out screams that often imitate the rhythm of the riffs . The riffs mostly consist of power chords .
Stemmen fra tårnet is a fast paced Black Metal piece that consists of a monotonous riff and ends abruptly. It is the only song on the EP published in Norwegian and the lyrics are reminiscent of Sauron's Dark Tower in The Lord of the Rings . Dominus Sathanas is a short instrumental piece that is played calmly by a guitar. Soft whispers can be heard in this song until a scream breaks the silence. A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit , a new recording of a track from the debut album Burzum , concludes the EP. At almost 11 minutes it is the longest track on the EP and longer than the first version. It was recorded at a slow pace, has little tempo changes and is largely based on the same riff. A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit is an epic song about a dead boy in a crypt. He is waiting to be freed from the grave so that he has to haunt around damned as a "lost, forgotten, sad ghost".
After Vikernes had turned away from Satanism and appeared as a right-wing extremist and neo-paganist , he tried to reinterpret his lyrics to Nordic mythology and denied satanic tendencies:
“On Aske, the title of the EP refers to the current state of Odin's kingdom and to the future of ' God '. The first title 'Stemmen fre taarnet' ['The call from the tower'] is about a call by Odin from his Hlidskjálf tower […]. The only 'satanic' title is 'Dominus Sathanas ' in Aske , translatable as 'The ruler opponent' or something like that. So where the hell do you get the impression that I'm a Satanist? "
effect
With Aske and the reference to the church fires that started out from the black metal scene, Vikernes brought media attention to the subculture and caused copycat criminals. References to church arson were then also found in other bands: Graveland from Poland was inspired by the events in Norway when recording the demo In the Glare of Burning Churches (1993). On the covers of the picture disc version of Absurd -LP Facta Loquuntur , the album Burning the Temple of God by Henrik “Nordvargr” Björkk's project MZ.412 (both 1996), the book Lords of Chaos (1998) and the single Purify Sweden by Lord Belial (2003), on the other hand, the burning Frogn Church is shown.
reception
Michael Renaud, who describes the vocals as "inhuman", awards 4.75 out of 5 points for the EP on the website metalcrypt.com in the review.
Track list
- Stemmen fra tårnet ('The voice from the tower') - 6:09
- Dominus Sathanas ('Ruler of Satan') - 3:02
- A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit ('A lost, forgotten, sad spirit') - 10:51
New edition
In its original version, the EP was not officially re-released. Instead, the tracks appeared on Burzum / Aske in 1995 on Misanthropy Records , the cover of the EP was printed on a small sticker and can also be seen on the CD imprint.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Varg Vikernes: A Burzum Story: Part VI - The Music. 2005, accessed March 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Varg Vikernes: Burzum - Discography - Official Releases - "Det Som Engang Var" 1993. Retrieved March 15, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Chris Campion: In the face of death (accessed March 13, 2010)
- ↑ Moynihan, Michael / Søderlind, Didrik: Lords of Chaos: The bloody rise from the underground . Promedia, Zeltingen 2002, pp. 144 ff.
- ↑ a b Varg Vikernes: Burzum - Discography - Official Releases - "Aske" (mini-LP) 1993. Retrieved on March 15, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Image at cultmetal.com ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Moynihan, Michael / Søderlind, Didrik: Lords of Chaos: The bloody rise from the underground . Promedia, Zeltingen, p. 288
- ↑ Varg Vikernes: A review of M. Moynihan & D. Søderlind's "Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise Of The Satanic Metal Underground" (New Edition). June 28, 2004, accessed March 15, 2010 .
- ↑ Interview with Euronymous - BEAT # 2. 1993, accessed March 15, 2010 .
- ↑ anus.com: Burzum - Ambient Black Metal ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 14, 2010)
- ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . Satanic Metal: The Bloody Rise from the Underground. Extended and revised edition 2005. 6th edition. ProMedia GmbH, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2005, ISBN 3-936878-00-5 , p. 181 .
- ↑ Biography 2001. (No longer available online.) 2001, archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; accessed on March 18, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Renaud: The Metal Crypt - Burzum - Burzum / Aske Review (accessed March 14, 2010)
Members: Varg Vikernes
Former session members: Euronymous (electric guitar, gong) | Samoth (electric bass)
Albums: Burzum (1992) | Det som engang var (1993) | Hvis lyset tar oss (1994) | Filosofem (1996) | Dauði Baldrs (1997) | Hliðskjálf (1999) | Belus (2010) | Fall (2011) | Umskiptar (2012) | Sôl austan, Mâni vestan (2013)
EPs: Aske (1993)
VHS: Darkness (1996)