Burzum - Aske. Burned church and the lighter.

On 6 June 1992 the wooden stave church of Fantoft (Norway) was burned to the ground by arson - Varg Vikernes. Vikernes is a founder of Burzum, the black metal band from Norway formed in 1988/1989. The name was taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. In the speach of Mordor "Burzum" means Darkness.


The building featured on the cover is the ruins of the Fantoft church. Vikernes says that was revenge on Christians for desecrating graves of pagans.

The best thing is that the 1000 first copies of album were distributed with Zippo lighters with Aske cover art painted on them. I tried to get a photo of that lighter but that was diffucult, but who knows, maybe someday i'll put it here. ;-)