Dark ambient
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| April 24 2025 | Vikernes released his first song in nearly a year, titled 'Burzum NEW, The Land of Thulê, What will come', with no prior information. |
| 2024 |
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Lana Del Rey played 'It's Just a Burning Memory' near the end of her Coachella performance, relating to the series after witnessing her grandfather's struggle with dementia.
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| November 4 2024 | Vikernes announced the end of the Burzum project on his X account, stating he would focus on his books, particularly #ReconQuest, and no longer had time for music. |
| April 2024 | Vikernes announced the return of the Burzum project on his X account, revealing a new album titled 'The Land of Thulê', which would be the first metal album since Umskiptar. |
| 2023 |
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Ivan Seal's work was featured in the Paris event 'Ser Serpas'.
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| 2023 |
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Kirby hosted an Unsound performance in New York City and reluctantly uploaded his most popular albums, including Everywhere at the End of Time, to streaming services in December.
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| September 8 2023 | Vikernes released a new song titled 'The Reincarnation of Ódinn', marking the first new Burzum music since the previously announced final album. |
| July 2023 |
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Vinyl edition of the soundtrack in 'sail away blue' was released, featuring a bonus song 'A Play Within a Play Within a Film' not included in the digital release.
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| April 14 2023 |
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Bobby Krlic's original score for 'Beau Is Afraid' was released by A24 Music, marking the soundtrack album's debut for the Ari Aster film starring Joaquin Phoenix.
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| March 28 2023 |
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Lead single 'Sail Away' from the Beau Is Afraid soundtrack was released.
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| 2022 |
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Kirby performed at the Donaufestival in Krems and Primavera Sound in Barcelona.
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| 2021 |
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The series gained attention in the modding community of the rhythm game Friday Night Funkin' with the creation of the mod 'Everywhere at the End of Funk'.
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| December 2021 | Airing of 'Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle' documentary on BBC Four, featuring archival footage and interviews with band members. |
| March 2021 |
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Everywhere at the End of Time peaked as the best-selling record on Boomkat, the platform used by Kirby for physical releases.
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| 2020 |
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Everywhere at the End of Time appears as a mod in the video game Friday Night Funkin'.
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| 2020 |
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Kirby and Weirdcore collaborated on the YouTube video '[−0º]', which was later chosen as one of the best audiovisual works of the year by Fact.
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| October 2020 |
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TikTok users created a challenge of listening to the entire Everywhere at the End of Time series in one sitting, leading to exponential growth of views on the series' YouTube upload, reaching over 36 million views.
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| March 14 2020 | Genesis P-Orridge died from leukaemia. |
| March 13 2020 | Vikernes released the album Thulêan Mysteries, which he stated would be Burzum's last album at the time. The tracks were previously used as background music on his now-taken-down YouTube channel and were intended to serve as a soundtrack for his MYFAROG role-playing game. |
| January 2020 |
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American YouTuber Solar Sands uploaded the video 'Can You Name One Object In This Photo?', which examines the abstract aspects of Everywhere at the End of Time, receiving over four million views.
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| 2019 |
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Kirby completes the final stage of Everywhere at the End of Time, marking his last release under the Caretaker alias.
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| 2019 |
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Stage 6 was named Resident Advisor's best album, and The Quietus' 'Lead Review' of the week and best 'miscellaneous' music release.
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| 2019 |
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A French art exhibition named 'Everywhere, an Empty Bliss' is held, featuring album cover paintings by Ivan Seal.
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| 2019 |
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Seal's paintings were exhibited near James Kirby's performance at the Krakow exhibition 'Cukuwruums'.
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| October 2019 | Vikernes tweeted his intention to release another Burzum album, tentatively named Thulêan Mysteries, which would contain 23 songs. |
| May 2019 |
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Kirby participated in the Unsound 'Solidarity' show in Krakow.
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| 2018 |
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James Kirby explained his choice to exclude liner notes, stating that Ivan Seal's paintings are the main focus of each stage and that digital information is available for those who 'search a little deeper'.
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| 2018 |
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Seal produced the album cover 'Necrotomigaud' for the final stage, depicting an art board with a square of loosely attached blue tape, symbolizing emotional emptiness.
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| September 2018 |
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Stage 5 of Everywhere at the End of Time was included in The Quietus' listing of the best music of September.
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| July 2018 | Unreleased materials from Uruk-Hai (1988-1990) and Burzum's Bergen prison recordings (1994) were posted on YouTube by user Hermann. |
| June 2018 | Vikernes posted a video on his YouTube account announcing he had 'moved on' from Burzum, saying 'bye bye' to the project. |
| May 2018 |
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Kirby started development of Stage 6, the final stage of the musical project, which he found the most challenging due to public expectations and the weight of the previous five stages.
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| March 2018 |
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Kirby was featured at a performance in Paris, where he played a version of the 1944 song 'Ce Soir' by Tino Rossi.
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| 2017 |
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James Kirby begins releasing the six-stage 'Everywhere at the End of Time' project, a conceptual album series exploring the progression of dementia through increasingly degraded musical samples.
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| 2017 |
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Ivan Seal created two album covers: 'Giltsholder', featuring a blue-and-green bust with unrecognizable facial features, and 'Eptitranxisticemestionscers Desending', an abstract representation interpreted as a marble-like staircase or a woman.
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| 2017 |
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Inspired by the Caretaker, several vaporwave musicians whose elder relatives had dementia released the 100-track album Memories Overlooked.
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| December 2017 |
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Kirby performed at the Krakow Barbican for the Unsound Festival in Poland, his first performance since 2011, featuring Seal's art and Weirdcore's visuals.
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| 2016 |
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Seal created 'Beaten Frowns After', the album cover for Stage 1, which features a grey unravelling scroll on a vacant horizon and was recognized in Tiny Mix Tapes' best album covers lists.
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| 2016 |
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Maria Perevedentseva from The Quietus selected 'We Don't Have Many Days' as one of the best songs of the year.
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| September 2016 |
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Kirby began development of Stage 3 of Everywhere at the End of Time, focusing on creating subtle but crucial differences in the musical style representing the mood of someone with a memory-related condition.
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| September 22 2016 |
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Kirby released the first stage of Everywhere at the End of Time, announcing the conceptual series that 'diagnoses' the Caretaker alias with dementia, exploring the progression of memory loss through music.
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| 2015 |
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Ivan Seal produced the album cover 'Pittor Pickgown in Khatheinstersper', depicting four wilting flowers in an abstract rotten rock vase.
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| 2014 |
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Ivan Seal created the album cover 'Hag' for Everywhere at the End of Time, featuring a distorted kelp plant in an extreme representation.
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| June 2014 | Released another album, The Ways of Yore. |
| May 2013 | Released Sôl austan, Mâni vestan, Burzum's first electronic album since 1999. |
| April 27 2013 | Posted the song 'Back to the Shadows' on his official YouTube channel, which Vikernes stated would be the last metal track released by Burzum. |
| 2012 |
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Kirby releases 'Patience (After Sebald)', a soundtrack album that deviates from his previous memory-themed works.
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| November 26 2012 | Released double album 'Desertshore/The Final Report', produced by Carter and Tutti with participation from Gaspar Noé, Sasha Grey, Anohni, Blixa Bargeld, and Marc Almond. |
| May 2012 | Released the third new studio album of original material, Umskiptar. |
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