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Therefore, the potential for considering this album thoughtful and carefully formed certainly exists, but I’d wager that’s mostly people applying better logic after the fact. Considering that the cover art of Det Som Engang Var is taken from Dungeons & Dragons, my take is just that Varg was really into fantasy.

It seems interesting to view ‘En Ring til aa Herske’ (‘One Ring to Rule’) as “about Germanic people and Draupnir, the ring of Odin”, though we should take it with a pinch of salt, since Varg also insists that Aske (Ashes) was a description of “Odin’s today and God’s tomorrow”. Although neither title seems especially apt for the Lord of the Rings themes prevalent on Det Som Engang Var, a revealing interview (not at the time of release) showed Varg trying to link these to his later ideas of Odinism. Just as with Aske, Varg changed the title of this release from the planned “På Svarte Troner” (“on black thrones”), which is practically the same name as the outro track, an instrumental of menacing distorted voices, feedback, and irregular sound effects called ‘Svarte Troner’. In an early career not short on irony, Det Som Engang Var (Norwegian for “what once was”, a song title that would notably be reused on the following album) eventually saw the light just after the former musician had killed the latter. That rushed feeling flies in the face of its release process, which followed more than a year on from the initial recording, Varg releasing it on his own (extremely short-lived) Cymophane Records after facing major issues getting it put out on Euronymous’s imprint Deathlike Silence Productions. In short, the second Burzum full-length feels extremely rushed.

However, while that brief release adjacent to this album hangs together moderately well as an entity, Det Som Engang Var remains a mess of creativity. As case in point, consider the release of Aske as much a flung-together promotion for arson as a planned musical statement.

While most fans and commentators consider 1992 an incredible year of progress for Burzum and for the roots of the Norwegian black metal style more generally, commenting on the way in which each release moved towards a new sound, few have voiced the opinion that such speed belies a man in a great hurry. Within the year, he had laid to tape the first three Burzum full-lengths, as well as the EP Aske, then very narrowly missed including Filosofem in that memorable 12 months. Apart from beginning to burn down churches in that concoction of bravado and violence that epitomized the Black Circle, Varg recorded albums – lots of them. The man known as Varg Vikernes was very busy during 1992.

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