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Burzum - Dauði Baldrs



6.4 | 268 votes |
Release date: 14 October 1997
Style: Dark Ambient

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01. Dauði Baldrs
02. Hermoðr Á Helferð
03. Bálferð Baldrs
04. Í Heimr Heljar
05. Illa Tiðandi
06. Móti Ragnarokum

Additional info
Label: Misanthropy Records / Cymophane Productions

Produced by Tanya Stene.

English translation of the titles:
1. The Death Of Balder
2. Hermodr On A Journey To Hel
3. Balder's Burning
4. In Hel's Home
5. Ill Tidings
6. Towards Ragnarok

Some copies have a huge typo in the name Burzum with the letter M missing from
the cover.
Promo came with different cover art than shown here and it was titled "Balders Død".

Re-released in 2005 by Back On Black.

Guest review by
Carl Berg
Rating:
8.5
Dauði Baldrs is Burzum's first album after Varg Vikernes got arrested; and as such it is the first one that was written exclusively in prison. Because he had no access to any other instrument, Varg could only use a synthesizer to record this album. Additionally, it is said he recorded the whole album on a simple tape recorder in his cell.

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published 24.09.2010 | Comments (12)

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26.03.2010 - 03:41
Rating: 8
Vathek

I really like this album. It's such grim cheesiness... Like Jawas dissecting a human corpse, or somesuch grimness. I do like the atmosphere, but I can see how a lot of people wouldn't like this album. Casio Black Metal. I reiterate - I really like this album.
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"Nothing is Real. Everything is Permitted."
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22.06.2010 - 21:11
Rating: 8
Autius

This is a great album i agree, and i can see why most metal heads hate it, not exactly head banging stuff, but i have a passion for classical music and metal witch is why i love this album, the dark ambient sound was forced on varg but it was a nice change,
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Som lyset forsvinner
mørket vokser
som lyset forsvinner
Vi Brenn i mørket
som lyset forsvinner
slutten morgener i nærheten
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06.08.2010 - 08:11
Perseverence
Account deleted
The only people I can see disliking this album is the "Clean vocals blah" asses. But I must say me and Grandma greatly enjoy this album on the rides to the local H-E-B.
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03.10.2010 - 23:00
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
Listening to it again and carefully right now...why it only reminds me my beginnings with MIDI sampling program?
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My rest seems now calm and deep
Finally I got my dead man sleep


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05.03.2011 - 03:46
Rating: 3
wormdrink414

Sounds like Ocarina of Time meets Belus meets Jakob "sit down when you pee" Erikson.
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27.09.2011 - 01:13
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid

This is a pretty good album. The absence of black metal overtones dont overshadow the haunting and hypnotic melodies that have been in burzum's career right from the start, as they are all present and correct on this album,as far as i can tell.
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06.12.2012 - 00:44
Rating: 4
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
Wow, this is so cheesy, sounds like the soundtrack to an old Sega game.



I feel like this could have been made by Gene from Bob's Burgers. Especially in the first track.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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09.10.2013 - 16:44
Lião
Account deleted
Actually, it HAS the dark atmosphere created in the previous Burzum albums. I like this album, especially the last two tracks. My only problem with it is that all songs are constructed barely in two or three sequences...
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17.03.2014 - 22:44
Rating: 8
FYA
Destroyer
Written by Guest on 09.10.2013 at 16:44

Actually, it HAS the dark atmosphere created in the previous Burzum albums. I like this album, especially the last two tracks. My only problem with it is that all songs are constructed barely in two or three sequences...


'Cause it's so called 'dungeon synth', and while Varg didn't know about this genre, he made some track in this style. And listen to some dungeon synth, and you'll understand that it has to be simple, with some layers only;)
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01.06.2014 - 16:07
ManiacBlasphemer
Black Knight
I have to admit that I've been too harsh on this album. After some time passed and after a couple of auditions, I actually started to like it. It is not a bad album at all, it just takes more time and probably a different mindset for it to be appreciated.
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01.06.2014 - 19:38
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
I actually don't mind this track at all but I'd like to hear it done proper.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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15.08.2014 - 04:39
Lião
Account deleted
Written by FYA on 17.03.2014 at 22:44

'Cause it's so called 'dungeon synth', and while Varg didn't know about this genre, he made some track in this style. And listen to some dungeon synth, and you'll understand that it has to be simple, with some layers only;)


Yeah, I discovered this subgenre through Mortiis side works, and I also loved it. I even changed my rating from 8 to 9
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15.08.2014 - 04:43
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Well, Burzum is cool and all but I too think just the same bit repeated over and over again gets boring. he could have cropped the songs in half.
And no this is not a characteristic of dungeon synth. Even Mortiis knew how to vary more the compositions on his songs. He did 20+ minute songs which wouldn't get tiring so quickly
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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26.06.2016 - 07:38
Rating: 8
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
Written by - on 25.06.2016 at 01:39

With second track I can see Varg dancing and jumping in spring surrounded by butterflies and flowers after a hard and depressing winter

And stabbing the butterflies in self-defence.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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17.06.2018 - 21:39
RaduP
CertifiedHipster
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Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking
One day there will be no heart at all?
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24.06.2019 - 20:21
Desha
delicious dish
So this is it, the dauðiest of all the Baldrs...
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You are the hammer, I am the nail
building a house in the fire on the hill
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04.10.2020 - 16:55
Rating: 2
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
This album sounds like a joke, it's pretty bad. It has the merit to not being that long, which makes it more bearable than what was released this year. At times it sounds like the kind of stuff I could have done with my keyboard when I was 10
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02.12.2022 - 20:44
Rating: 5
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
It's not too bad I suppose, considering he only had a simple synthesizer to work with, the tracks just start to become extremely tedious after a while.
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