― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
look...
ULVER To Release 'Shadows Of The Sun' In The Fall http://tinyurl.com/395fyp
― djmartian, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the most recent ulver record i own is the marriage of heaven and hell thingie. i remember feeling a little cut that they'd turned their back completely on black metal. it's an entertaining release nonetheless, though i never felt compelled to listen to anything that came after it.
nattens madrigal is about as pure and glorious as black metal gets.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
omg NEW ULVER
thanks, dj martian!
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't know you were a fan, actually :)
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
This is exciting news. Anyone know if it's getting released on "The End" this time around?
― John Justen, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i only have 'blood inside' but it's one of my very favourite records. when i decided to introduce my music-collection to my brother, it was the first album i urged him to play. he put it in the disc-drive without pressing it down and scratched it. :-/
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i would think that it's the same, i.e Jester Records for Europe and The End Records for North America
― djmartian, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember an ex-girlfriend did something similar with my copy of 'tea for the tillerman'. in fact, it was one of those players that you open and close with a button and it slides in and out. she didn't put the record in the slot properly and it got stuck when she pressed the button. scratched it so badly it wouldn't play...
but back to ulver,
i think...i think i should purchase 'blood inside'
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
LJ, you would probably like Teachings in Silence etc. although it's much darker/emptier. Might want to work your way into the earlier albums, they aren't likely to appeal to your sensibilities (as I understand them) right off the bat. Try to track down the quick fix of melancholy EP also, which you are almost certain to like if you like blood inside.
Of course, you don't like "Nail", so I'm not entirely sure what to think about you. Perhaps this will improve your score overall :)
xposts
― John Justen, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
hey dude, I LIKE nail, but i prefer the last two for some unfathomable reason! 'kreibabe' is one of the finest, most awesomely warped pieces of music i've ever heard, and the rest ain't far behind. i'm also a fan of more than a little metal, so i'd probably really enjoy the early stuff. would you say 'bergtatt' or 'nattens madrigal' would be a wiser foray?
also, cheers for the EP leads! :-D
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd say bergtatt, because you get a cool hybrid of nordic folk and black metal with that one and it's a good intro to their black metal dynamic. nattens madrigal is an onslaught from start to finish. though honey to these ears
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
let's see what john says
i tend to prefer onslaughts too, mind
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, if part of what you enjoy about Blood Inside is the lush production, nattens is going to be a bit of a shock. It's a fantastic by harshly recorded album (w/intent). I think I'd go with bergtatt. If you're like me, though, eventually you'll end up buying everything you can find.
― John Justen, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i would suggest that the organic and primal production (or lack of production as it were) on nattens lends the record a really ambient quality. the playing is extremely tight as well. no one can doubt that it's an extremely focused record, despite its harsh sound.
great artwork in the sleeves too with some really artistic shots of the band
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
does it sound anything like (this will sound heretic but bear with me) Primal Scream's 'Accelerator'? that's the kind of harsh, distorted guitar kerfuffle i go crazy for.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
the guitar in the ulver is not as loose and is more melodic than the primal scream.
accelerator is a cool track.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait, i've just thought of a possible comparison. does it sound anything like serena-maneesh's 'beehiver II', 'don't come down here' or 'your blood in mine'?
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know that Primal Scream song.
xpost:Nor do I know those songs.
― John Justen, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait, I've got it. opening track off Sleater-Kinney's last album ('The Fox'). Do Ulver's guitars achieve that sort of lo-fi distorted glory?
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
hahah, the idea of comparing sleater-kinney to nattens-era ulver is hilarious :)
but in practice, there just may be something there. i'd need to hear the track in question again...so watch this space.
i've never even heard of serena-maneesh.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
according to jester records the new Ulver album will be released October 1st
― djmartian, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/Other/Tattoo/Wrist001.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
not me. tempting though. or at least the old logo.
You have to seek ulver (wolves) in Norway as they are almost completely eradicated from nature. On the other hand, destroying them is against the law, so I would advise you to let them live.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
YOU'RE BLOWING MY MIND HERE DUDE.
― John Justen, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
briefly, while i have the time, breaking my self-imposed ilx exile to note that the new album is lovely. very dreamy. beautiful. late-night mood. even the sabbath cover fits in nicely. though it was a lovely song to begin with. so, nothing strange about that. nowhere near as jarring or as fanciful as the last album, but just as deep and wild in its way.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 August 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
don't even know where to begin...
this impresses me. as always, i guess. i'm looking forward to hearing how other people respond to this.
― scott seward, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
:-) You should know, Scott, that your EMP presentation *still* gets people talking about Ulver.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Does someone have "Bergtatt" handy and could send it to me?
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://blackmetalownsyou.blogspot.com/2007/08/ulver-bergtatt-et-eeventyr-i-5-capitler.html
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 9 September 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG this thread revive is such a ridiculius coincidence! I've JUST (in the past half-hour) copied to my computer Ulver's ENTIRE album discography (alongside a LOT of other metal)! I shall be reporting to this thread with observations.
Themes From WB's MOHAH is unhinged, catchy awesomeness, yet also completely "what were they thinking?" at the same time. You want to look away, you want to hear more.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 9 September 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, GOTT!!
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
'bergtatt' is really something special fantastic vocals, extremely melodic, sparsely brutal, and i'd imagine pretty influential (i'm hearing similar melodies in dissection and agalloch) 1994 could be THE year for black metal
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 14 February 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to 'perdition city' right now. well it's good and all, but i think they've really evolved and found their true element outside of the metal realm since then. grazie
― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
the series of EPs they put out (and the soundtrack work they did) after perdition city are also a good taste of what was to come. although the progression from marriage of heaven and hell to perdition city is likewise a pretty major stepping stone to the current stuff. i would say that the sham mirrors was, in all its lunacy, a harbinger of things to come as well. especially lyrically and vocally.
ulver - evolution from day one.
(that's their new motto)
― scott seward, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
hahah 'marriage of heaven and hell' is wack! some great ideas and sounds in there, and guest appearances, but i can only listen to it rarely
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 23 March 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I love everything this band has been compared to. Maybe I need to get some when I have money...
― jonathan - stl, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
you'd be well advised
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
It's only just sunk in during the past couple of days just how brilliant Shadows Of The Sun actually is. Arguably even more intricate (in its subtle way) than Blood Inside, although I still prefer the 2005 record, because I'm more a thrill-junkie than a contemplative sad-sack. ;-)
(Also because it's got slightly better songs and more of a sense of flow)
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been listening to the last two albums a lot again recently and only now hearing something similar to six finger satellite's law of ruins. maybe i'm crazy
― kamerad, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i must now hear six finger satellite
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
You may find it hard to divine the thread.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
?
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/28828-ulver-interview-3
A longish interview in the Quietus for their new album. It seems to be in the vein of "the Assassination...", which is exciting
― Duke, Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
Cover of new album:
https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/medium/48/182048-ulver-flowers-of-evil.jpg
― Duke, Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
And it's out!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
Yes, out today here. Looking forward to getting this.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
It feels like he's easing into the sound introduced on the last album and letting himself have more fun with it.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
Yes. Sounding good so far.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
wow didn't know this was coming, sounding great so far.
weird comparison, but the heavy slow-building atmosphere of the first track 'one last dance' reminds me of blick bassy's 'ngwa,' which is one of my fav songs from last year
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
the singles didn't stand out to me ahead of time but I can already feel this working on me, I think it's the equal of the last one
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
To me it has fewer immediate hooks than The Assassination..., but I'm enjoying it and it will grow.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
"hour of the wolf" confirmed amazing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
actually this just keeps getting better as it goes
agreed with simon it's a more playful version of the sound on the last record... to a nigh-danceable degree on "apocalypse 1993"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
when's the D. Lissvik rework album coming out
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
So far this isn't grabbing me, but I'll give it time. See you in a month!
― lukas, Friday, 28 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
I feel the need to plug the new Greg Puciato single for anyone who digs recent Ulver
https://youtu.be/VgCMGAvurl0
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
^^ good stuff
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Yes, thanks Simon.
― Duke, Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
I'm enjoying the new one. Short and sweet. But it doesn't reach the highs of its predecessor. It's a more even listen, if that's the right way to put it. "Apocalypse 1993" might be my favourite for now.
― Duke, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
Really like his voice. How many other death metallers secretly have voices like polished oak?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
― lukas, Friday, August 28, 2020 12:30 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Duke's correct that the highs aren't as high, but it's consistent and it scratches an itch nothing else does. Keep coming back to this.
― lukas, Friday, 23 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/30754-ulver-reinterpret-john-carpenter-new-album-scary-muzak
― Duke, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
New Ulver. Looking forward to this.
https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/hexahedron-live-at-henie-onstad-kunstsenter
― Duke, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
Also this ^
It's really the first time in 15 years that it clicks, but today I was in the mood for relistening to Nattens Madrigal (in two sittings) and I find it actually much closer to Bergtatt than I thought (in composition).Also had a blast relistening to Blood Inside. Come to think of it, one thing that unites a good part of their discography is how disconcerting and dense and visceral-cerebral and hypnotic their albums are.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link