Varg Vikernes posted a video a few weeks ago to his ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel listing the ten metal albums most influential to Burzum. We forced a lowly, supple-assed Death Metal Underground junior staffer/catamite to type them up into a play list for our readers:

10. Deicide – Deicide (1990)

“The only death metal album on this list. Raw; extreme and brutal. I got this in 1991. It was the last death metal album I ever bought.”



9. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1980)

“I got this when I was 13-14 years old. It was a revelation in music to me. A whole new… strange world.”



8. Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986)

“I go this as a Yule present from my brother in 1987. Fantastic album.”



7. Destruction – Infernal Overkill (1985)

“I got this from my childhood friend, Truls Birkeland, probably in 1989, because he didn’t like it, but thought that I would. And I sure did.”



6. Bathory – Blood Fire Death (1988)

“I first heard this in 1988 or 1989, when a friend, Karl Ronneberg, visited from Alesund. And I loved it from the first listen.”



5. Kreator – Pleasure to Kill (1986)

“I first heard this via the little brother of Einar Osland, whom I played role-playing games with. Awesome album! I still listen to it some times.”



4. Bathory – Twilight of the Gods (1991)

“I purchased this when it came out in 1991, at a time when it was popular to hate Bathory, because he had (with Hammerheart), ‘wimped out’.”



3. Bathory – Hammerheart (1990)

“I purchased in 1991, along with Twilight of the Gods. A truly amazing album. Bathory’s best for sure.”



2. Iron Maiden – Killers (1981)

“One of the rawest albums of the 1980ies. I got this album along with the other Iron Maiden albums, around age 13-14, and I never looked back.”



1. Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time (1986)

“Probably the best metal album ever, according to me. Apart from the first track, I love everything on this album.”



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