Release Year: 2010
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: monumental transcendental atmospheric black metal
it was certainly not easy to believe first that Varg Vikernes, being back after long years in jail just since 2009, would immediately return to music and his authentic black metal roots, accomplishing and recording all new longplay of the notorious, legendary project, traditionally using service of kult Grieghallen studio, releasing hot new stuff in a span of less than one year: remarkable eight track comeback, the first recording in eleven years, bursts out with Filosofem worth, dramatic atmosphere, gaining momentum with rhythmically repetitive, yet strongly hypnotizing, trance-inducing vastness, backed up by trademark magic feeling in the air, so essential on the man's early material from the nineties, in order to dominate anew