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Varg Vikernes recorded the first four Burzum albums between January 1992 and March 1993 at the Grieg Hall in Bergen. However, the releases were spread out, with many months between the recording and the release of each album.
The album was initially named På svarte troner (Norwegian for “On Black Thrones”) but was renamed shortly before its release. The song “Det som en gang var” (with a slightly different spelling) would appear on the next album, Hvis lyset tar oss.
The album cover is visually inspired by the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition) module The Temple of Elemental Evil. At the bottom of the artwork is a depiction of the “reaper” and the tree shown on Burzum’s first album. The album cover was drawn by Jannicke Wiese-Hansen, who also drew the cover for the first Burzum album.
Det som engang var was released on CD in August 1993 through Vikernes’ own record label, Cymophane Productions, which he created so he could leave Deathlike Silence Productions, which was owned by Mayhem guitarist Euronymous. Its release was limited to around 950 copies. Although the two were friends, by the time of the album’s release they had fallen out. On 10 August 1993, Vikernes stabbed Euronymous to death outside his apartment in Oslo. He was arrested a few days later and, in May 1994, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for both the murder and the church arsons.
After Vikernes’s release from prison in 2009, he re-recorded two songs from the album—”Key to the Gate” and “Snu mikrokosmos tegn”—and released them on the album From the Depths of Darkness.
Tracklist:
1 Den Onde Kysten 2:20
2 Key To The Gate 5:14
3 En Ring Til Aa Herske 7:10
4 Lost Wisdom 4:38
5 Han Som Reiste 4:51
6 Naar Himmelen Klarner 3:50
7 Snu Mikrokosmos Tegn 9:36
8 Svarte Troner 2:16
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