Feeble Screams from Forests Unknown

It's about the downfall of humanity, how we dont use logic anymore and make stupid decisions that in the end will fuck us and the earth over. The gate is the answer to a better life for humanity and mankind but it just keeps getting shut tighter with the kinds of decisions we make, it also expels a sense of hopelesness for humanity with lines like "In the Pool of Dreams the water Darkens" "Stupidity Has won too much" "As years pass by The Aura Drops" Basically, he's saying we're fucked as a race, it's too late to fix it.

First Burzum song I heard. My guess is that "the Gate" is the gate to the next life or level of existence.

It's been said that the only way we can cure the human disease is to go back to our primal ways.... participating consciousness with the environment..

That would make sense for Varg, considering how strongly he believes in ancient traditions and customs.

from reading what varg has said about this (and he is somewhat notorious for changing his tune on a whole lot of things) this is the 'theme song' of burzum.

there is no hope because all of the things he believes could make the world worthwhile - magic, the old ways etc - have gone, or never existed. to trivialise it, it kind of seems like the lament of a dungeons and dragons nerd facing the hard reality that orcs and dragons do not exist. the world is not as we might wish it to be.

it's just a good song. i don't care about varg's views because i can't understand a wordd of it. but i love black metal so whatever.

So does anyone understand why Varg thought "The hopeless soul keeps mating" was a better line than "The hopeless soul keeps waiting"? He always complains about Euronymous changing it in the official booklet, but I'm not sure what his original line even means.

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