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Ye x Burzum Is Already the Worst Collab of 2024
Following up an apology to the Jewish community in the lousiest way possible.
For those blessedly unaware of the reactionary ghouls lurking in heavy metal’s most rancid corners, Burzum is an infamous Norwegian black-metal band fronted by Varg Vikernes, a pagan neo-Nazi and convicted killer whose early artistic contributions to the genre have long been overshadowed by his virulently racist, antisemitic, white-supremacist views, which he shares freely via his blog. Plus, in 2016, Ye appeared on Gucci Mane’s “Pussy Print,” which samples Burzum’s “Rundgang um die transzendentale säule der singularität” (taken from 1996’s Filosofem), so he certainly can’t claim ignorance like other artists who’ve made similarly boneheaded sartorial moves. The artwork is unnervingly similar to that of Burzum’s 1992 self-titled album and is based on Paysage de tombes, a landscape painting by 19th-century German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, whose work was associated with nationalism and Nazism during the 1930s (Hitler was a fan).
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