Fisters of God, welcome once again. I have been mulling over this post a little too much today so that I can serenade you all with something that may leave you temporarily shadowless: Ildjarn.
Founded in 1992, Ildjarn was a very influencial Norwegian black metal project, the solo endeavor of one Vidar Vaaer (though the vocals on the Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths demo were contributed by Samoth). For me, this demo is as important in the second wave of black metal as anything by Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal or Mayhem, who I consider to be the four Norsemen of True Norwegian Black Metal. Let's not forget the Grymyrk demo, but that is forthcoming...
Anyway, this was only ever released on cassette (25 copies apparently) and it has been dubbed and traded fuck knows how many times over until it reached the binary of this very page. If you've heard a rumor of a Uruk-Hai (Varg's pre-Burzum project) demo, this is it. It just has some eerie synth opening each track.
Ildjarn also features on the Burzum bootlegs Draugen and Svarte Dauen. The obvious reason for this being that both have a very similar Bathory-esque take on black metal. Plus slightly off-ish drumming. Shame he stopped recording because of a broken four-track, huh?
Ildjarn - "I"
Anyone else hearing squeaks or did this shit blow up my headphones?
Posted by: Rook | 29/04/2009 at 22:25
I admire people who can distinguish one Norwegian metal band from another...
Posted by: Begbie | 29/04/2009 at 22:26
Bullshit! This is actually a master recording of the very, very rare Black Lips black metal side project from 2004. Soon to be released on Vice Records, following the new Varg solo project they talked about on Chunklet.com
Posted by: Danimal the Depraved | 30/04/2009 at 01:45
Burzum is a solo project, retard
Posted by: danimal the stupid nickname | 30/04/2009 at 13:55
Yes, dickhead, but what he's saying is somebody has passed off Ildjarn AS Burzum. You RETARD
Posted by: FUCK YOU ALL | 30/04/2009 at 15:27
A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate.
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