still haven't found this anywhere unfortunately
belus and fallen were brilliant

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The clumsy spoken word intro “Blóðstokkinn” immediately illustrates what is wrong with Vikernes and everything he stands for. Sure, it’s easy enough to copy the Old-Norse language version of the Völuspá from some website and it will certainly look fancy and perhaps somewhat intellectual. To deliver it with credibility is a different matter altogether. Next to the very “loose” (non-existent) timing and the silly Saruman-impersonation voice, it quickly becomes blaringly apparent that Vikernes has no clue how to correctly pronounce Old-Norse. Many advanced Scandinavian language students will cringe when hearing Vikernes fake his way through this whole record in “Old-Norse”. Lesson learned: if you have no clue how to do something, learn how to do it properly or don’t do it at all.

When the album, after more than an hour, finally ends with Vikernes blowing a cow horn for five minutes while doing an impression of an Old-Norse down syndrome patient suffering from laryngitis, I’m grateful that I didn’t spend any money on this promo.

It's not a great one.
And I had to laugh when I read this review:



and

A fine example of haters who accuse others of being haters, a true example also of left wing extremest's attacking the wrong target but its fair to say its not great IUO.

I had to laugh too as I pictured fat nerd, keyboard warriors eating tons of shit and thinking I have you now Varg, like the hand picked losers they are.

Lesson learned: if you have no clue how to do something, learn how to do it properly or don’t do it at all.

In fairness to the reviewer I don't think it was an attack on Varg's ideals as such, he was disappointed by the album. He did end the review with
"Now I’m going to listen to “Hvis lyset tar oss” to get this crap out of my head."

He has a point about the ancient Norse thing though. If Varg really doesn't know much about it, he should probably avoid writing lyrics around it. I feel the same every time I hear a US band pronounce the word Samhain.

To me, I think maybe he needs to take a rest for a couple of years. I thought the first 2 albums he released after getting out were great. I honestly didn't think he had any more good albums in him after so long.
This one just isn't doing it for me though.

"The Varg is a guy that I admire. Even if thee criticize by your crazy ideologies, nobody can deny that he is good at what he does: MUSIC. The proof is new album Umpkistar, that is magical!
A Viking surviving in the globalization and the EXTREME LIBERAL CAPITALISM! For more that the people say, he does what I always wanted: To live his life the way he wants! Whenever I need ENERGY, INSPIRATION and Animo, count on these guys: Varg, Ted Skellun and Gylve Nagel, you are the heroes of the music!"

That Fallschirmjäger is worth a few bob, I guess the hat says more about the man than the music, perhaps he likes parachuting in pricy WW11 gear, and is not really broke as suggested somewhere here.

In fairness to the reviewer I don't think it was an attack on Varg's ideals as such

I got this almost three weeks ago, and I must say that it is a bit on the ropey side. It never really gets going, there is very little to hook the listener and it just seems slapped together. Perhaps he is running out of the ideas that he came up with in prison? I can't see myself listening to it all that much in the future after I give it a few more chances this month.