Hvis Lyset Tar Oss [Import]

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss [Import]

Track Listings

1. Det Som En Gang Var

2. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

3. Inn I Slottet Ira Droemmen

4. Tomhet

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss,Burzum,3e,Heavy Metal

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What Once Was, And Shall Never Be Again

A Black Metal Masterpiece

Breath Taking

I just dont understand

Amazing and Hauntingly Grim

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Burzum
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Det Som En Gang Var
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
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Album Description

1993 album for the Norwegian metal act. Four tracks. Misanthropy. Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

What Once Was, And Shall Never Be Again.......2006-10-12

Whether one views him as an intentional genius, an idiot savant or even a media whore, it is hard to deny the creative legacy of Varg Vikernes and his artistic outlet, Burzum. Like a looming mountain range, shrouded in mist and legend, he has cast a dark and forboding shadow across the face, not only of black metal, but all subsequent extreme music. And, among those mountains, "Hvis lyset tar oss" stands as Everest, towering above all that came before it and dwarfing all that has passed since.

Metal, as a genre, has excelled beyond all modern forms of music in its passion for transcendence and its embrace of the epic spirit of the glorious past. But where most metal found the epic in grandiose gestures, pomp and circumstance, "Hvis lyset tar oss" wraps itself in the mystery of the Void, becoming metal's most sublime expression by reaching inward, into dream and memory, to find both eternal sorrow and joy in that which has been lost.

"Hvis lyset tar oss" is the suspension of time set to music. It is that simple. It is that complex. The infinite past is reimagined as the eternal future; the future is the endless present that never was. Nothing is hurried, nothing is forced. Four songs are stretched across 44 minutes, and while none lingers too long, all echo through the imagination long after they are finished, each unfolding naturally, in its own time. This is an album that entrances with through sheer grace; driven by deceptively simple, but gloriously beautiful melodies and harmonies whose motion is the purest of elegance, themes evolving so subtly that even the attentive listener is quickly enveloped without ever discovering quite why.

But the magic of "Hvis lyset tar oss" is as much about the space between sound as sound itself. The album opens with the dreamspace echoes of the intro to "Det som engang var," perhaps the greatest single masterpiece of metal ever produced, a song built of the controlled but explosive energy of longing and the almost unbearable weight of eternity condensed into its many contemplative pauses. It closes with the fading heartbeat and forlorn keyboard melody of "Tomhet," a prayer offered up to the darkness within, the very essence of its sound hinting at the crushing silence of the void without. In between, the title track and "Inn i slottet fra drømmen" seethe with rage against a world that has turned away from the beauty of its past and burn with hope for a rebirth of ancient wisdom.

Always, "Hvis lyset tar oss" is locked in struggle. Between silence and sound, despair and hope, defeat and victory. Struggles that do not and cannot end, but form the very basis of any life worth living or universe worth living in. This is its genius, and its curse, to pose the questions and wrestle with answers that never quite come.

A Black Metal Masterpiece.......2006-10-11

Besides all the church burning and killing Burzum actually did some good music to brag about with Hvis Lysset Tar Oss. This is actually one of the best albums to come out of the Norwegian black metal scene. Beginning with the cold and harsh drumming of Det Som En Gang Var the album leads you to a trip through snow covered landscapes resembling the black and white illustration of the artwork. This is no happy music you know... Varg delivers his vocals with such ferocity that no other singer can match. The song patterns, while primitive and repetitive hold an intelligence to them as they are simple but full of meaning. The 4 tracks that range to about an hour are full of cold black metal riffing and Varg's wolflike screams with the last song being the exception. Tomhet which is Norwegian for Empty does exactly that, it empties you with it's repetitive ambient structure. While not up to par with most ambient artists out there it sure leaves you with a nice feeling. People who want to experience all that is black metal be sure to check this album. You won't regret it...

Breath Taking.......2006-08-12

Simply put this is one of the best black metal albums ever made. Heck, it's one of the best metal albums ever made. The music is very simple and repetitive, the point being to put the listener into a trance-like state. The music is paradoxically dissonant and beautiful. The opening segment of Det Som En Gang Var is a perfect example of this. You have this simple beautiful keyboard line hovering over very dissonant droning distorted guitar chords. The two halves of the album mirror each other, the first and last track are both about 14 minutes long and are divided into two fairly equal sections. The second and third tracks are around 8 minutes apiece and are very similar in sound/style. The first and last track however while very similar in mood are quite different in instrumentation (the opener involves vocals, guitars, bass, drums and keyboards; the closer is pure keyboards). Simply put the music on this album is some of the most hypnotic and achingly beautiful you will find within the black metal genre. Get it.

I just dont understand.......2005-07-25

Maybe it is just me but this is some real crap. Dont get me wrong, I like black metal, and not just the symphonic stuff like Dimmu Borgir and later Emporer. This album i akin to someone pissing in my ear. There is almost no quality in the musicianship. Repetitive and just plain boring. If you want to hear REAL old-school but also excellent BM go and get Satyricon's The ShadowThrone and anything by Mayhem. Dont waste your time with this drivel. im not a kid either but beleive what you will.

Amazing and Hauntingly Grim.......2005-05-25

Burzum. The one man band created by Varg Vikernes, one of black metal's gods. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss is probably one of black metal's most important and true albums. This is the true style, this is up there with Darkthrone's "Transilvanian Hunger". By the way, Varg also wrote the lyrics for tracks five through eight on that album. Anyway, This album is simplistic and short but that is not something that makes it any less good. This album has Varg's tortured misanthropic vocals with the buzz saw guitars and blast beat drums. The guitar is very much the highlight of this album, the sound chills you to the core and makes you wince like true black metal should. The four songs are listed below:

1.) Det Som En Gang Var: Very cold and harsh, a great opener (5/5)

2.) Hvis Lyset Tar Oss: Very good and very true style, I think its too simple though (4/5)

3.) Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen: The best on the album, a hauntingly beautiful melodic guitar riff towards to end. The rest is cold and harsh black metal. (10/5)

4.) Tomhet: Superb. This track displays Varg's pain and the cold music he creates (5/5)

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The trvest band ever?
Varg Vikernes - A Genius!
If the light takes us...
Best black metal album ever.

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
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Manufacturer: 3e
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

The trvest band ever?.......2006-02-20

Bvrzvm is perhaps the trvest kvlt band ever.

Varg set the standards for all fvtvre kvlt bands to follow. And since he was incarcerated in the early 90's, black metal has degenerated into a sad state of pitifvl self parody. This day and age people think grim and cold is Dimmu Borgir. This is not what Varg fought for... Varg fought for trve black metal... Grim fvzz distorted gvitars and indecipherable vocals. Nowadays black metal bands want to prodvce their records, but they forget that a trve record is prodvced on a fovr track from the eighties in a cold, grim basement room.

Varg knew what made black metal trve and he set the standards.

No, seriously, this is one of the best black metal records ever... if not the best... Absolutely essential.

Varg Vikernes - A Genius!.......2005-10-30

"Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is the absolutely greatest Ambient Black-Metal album ever! When you listen to it, you will be in Norway before the christianity took over our pride. Varg's vocals express total pain and sorrow, and he sounds like an unholy ghost - brilliant! The guitar-riffs and drumming are brilliant to, especially the keyboards("Tomhet"), it makes me seriously sad. It is only four tracks here, but it would be wrong to increase the amount. All the tracks here are amazing in their own way, but my personal favorite track is "Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen" - Maybe one of the greatest tracks in the history. You have to understand norwegian if you want to know what he sings about. But forget it, it is the music that counts, not the lyrics. Well, if you are curious about Black Metal, or if you love it: Buy this album or die!

If the light takes us..........2004-12-31

This is one of the best black metal albums made in the early days of the Norwegian scene: when black metal was new, when the rules hadn't been fully codified, when it was more of a folk music or art form rather than commercial consideration, when few guys in the country played it. This music is dark, elegiac and hypnotic: odd harmonics and melodies are buried deep within the music either created by slowly shifting guitar or electronics. Its dense, minimal, cold, angry and sad, sometimes all at once.

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss sounds raw and unpolished, and is some of the most atmospheric and emotional black metal ever made. The first song "Det Som Engang Var" (What Once Was) starts out with fuzzed out distorted guitar and synth and sets a tone of bleakness unlike any I've ever heard. Its just frozen cold. The last song Tomhet (Emptyness) is a slow and repetitive electronic intrumental, but despite its 14 minute length it doesn't get boring. Rather it takes you away because of its icy emotive, visual nature. Its actually beautiful (and grim) The other two songs are excellent as well. Vargs voice throughout the album sounds as though the words are being ripped out under torture, which some people might not like. I however find his "singing" expressive and an integral part of the music.

Varg Vikernes is a psychopath, murderer, an extreme person and now a racist political philosopher with a feeble grasp on reality, but one should pay attention to the music rather than the man. The music of Burzum reflects his emotional intensity and commitment to his art. That Varg plays all the instruments is incredible. In my opinion Burzum is one of the best and certainly the most original band of early period of Norwegian black metal and "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" (If the Light Takes Us) is one of Burzum's best albums.

Best black metal album ever........2004-12-06

Because black metal has in recent years been somewhat stagnant, listening to old classics is a great consolation for the fact that most of what is new out there is relatively terrible. Although this album is more than a decade old, neither its effect nor its relevance are lost. Make no mistake about it: this is powerful music in a tradition that is of woefully negligible prominence in "The Scene" today. Of course, maybe that's not such a bad thing: endless emulation is what tends to hamstring all movements of any significance, be they artistic, musical, political, or philosophical. This album -- and Burzum's music in general -- was a revolution in all four realms in terms of what it did for black metal.

The shortest song on this album is slightly less than 8 minutes, so there's plenty of time for one to absorb and ruminate on each of the four tracks. Vikernes has discarded the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure, if indeed he ever subscribed to it in the first place. The music itself is violent, brutal, and generally not for the faint of heart. But this is calculated chaos; the album has an internal logic all its own and it tends to betray large outpourings of emotionality that are not typical of black metal. Citing influences as divergent as Bathory and Dead Can Dance, it's not difficult to see where these come into play. The music is of course guitar-based, but the riffs are backed up by subtle keyboard passages that enhance the effect without being overbearing (see some of Emperor's later works and everything by Dimmu Borgir for this problem).

First-time black metal listeners are encouraged to listen to this album alongside Darkthrone's "Transilvanian Hunger" and the legendary Emperor/Enslaved split "Emperor + Hordanes Land." This Unholy Trinity is the best introduction to Norwegian black metal that one is likely to find and it is a grand starting point for the curious. The logical progression from there includes Graveland and Beherit, and although all the other bands and albums referenced are excellent, "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is the best there ever was and it seems as if it's the best there ever will be. This is truly symphonic black metal: each part is a section of a coherent whole that functions like a real symphony rather than a few tracks with absurdly intricate keyboard parts woven into it, which is what you'll often find under the tag "symphonic black metal." For sheer importance devoid of posturing and false airs of depth, this is THE album to have.

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Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
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hypnotic masterpiece
The album that ended black metal (One of the best, ever)
The greatest album of all time!
Varg's music is enchanting..
A forever milestone in the Metal of the North

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Customer Reviews:

hypnotic masterpiece.......2003-01-25

this album have a best song in it. its name is (det som engang war)it means ( what was once) this song takes me to the deep of snowy forests and as i am a viking warrior. varg vikernes describes his anger very hatefully . in the background of this song there is a very hypnotic keyboard rhythms. songs are very melancholic and hateful.when i was listen this album first,i think its a masterpiece of vikingmetal.everybody must listen this and all burzum albums because it gives no only music it gives some signs about past

The album that ended black metal (One of the best, ever).......2003-01-25

I bought this one back at Wild Rags in the early 1990s and was not immediately enchanted with it. I heard mostly noise and very simple riffs with keyboards. After becoming acquainted with some classical music in short forms, I realized what the Burzum trip is: themes are developed in very simple riffs, leading to a complex establishment of harmony in which a final motif is proclaimed which removes the anger from the perception of this music and replaces it with a graceful, yet bittersweet sad, revelation of the pessimism and desire for change in herent in life for a thinking person at this time. It's not Beethoven's fifth, but it is as distinctive.

Opening with the lengthy "Det Som Engang Var" the album races through two majestic but basic tracks, then drifts into a simple and repetitive ambient keyboard track with the allure of creating and holding a mood despite its somewhat traditional ambient aesthetics. Tracks use complex structures made of riffs that use the simplest possible musical shapes for the greatest effects, putting together five three-note riffs into ambient metal of resonant sensation. Keyboards drum and guitar use sparse patterns in coincidence for great effect.

This album destroyed black metal by taking the music one dimension higher, toward what earlier black metal had explored but completely detached from the standard rock song form, suggesting a type of "symphonic" metal that is designed to be lengthy, narrative music like a classical symphony, but doesn't use the same breadth of instrumentation. It is one of the handful of best the genre produced, and perhaps its most visionary work.

The greatest album of all time!.......2002-11-03

This album is the greatest album of all time, and there will NEVER be an album to top this. From the aggressive, pumping opening track, "Det som en gang var"(best song ever), to the chilling, atmospheric last piece, "tomhet", there is norwegian black metal at its best. blizzards of guitars and shrieking vocals makes this album a MUST! You have to get it, even if you don't have money.
SVARTMETALL ER BEST!

Varg's music is enchanting.........2001-07-17

This cd is very very good! The cover art is one of the coolest covers i have ever seen ever. This cd also contains probably the best black metal song ever, Det Som Engang Var. A 14 minute masterpiece. Though this cd lacks good production (typical black metal) but that just adds to the album. It makes the music sound more evil and raw, the way black metal should be. The production is really the only bad part about the album. But since i listen to black metal a lot and i am a strict black metal fan i can stand it easily. And i have heard worse before. If you are a fan of BM such as mayhem but want something a little more atmospheric. I would go wtih this. This isn't that cheesy symphonic crap that most BM are doing now, this is straight up BM terror!

A forever milestone in the Metal of the North.......2001-02-28

Burzum's "Hvis Lysset Tar Oss" is an opus unmatched. It is standing out like a tower, its painful and agonising atmosphere is incredible. Just listen to "Det Som Engang Var" (=what once was), a 14 minute infernal suffering - you feel the flames of Hell indeed when you hear this song. And "Tomhet" (=emptiness) is like dancing swirling lights in the eternal cold void of the universe, truly emptiness. This masterpiece is, together with Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse", the absolute root and solid ground of Black Metal. Listen to it, undescribable! Another tip: If you like Burzum, listen to Nargaroth "Herbstleyd", a CD difficult to find, but very Burzumish atmosphere...

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