I don't know that Primal Scream song.
xpost:Nor do I know those songs.
― John Justen, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:25 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
according to jester records the new Ulver album will be released October 1st
― djmartian, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/Other/Tattoo/Wrist001.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:11 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
YOU'RE BLOWING MY MIND HERE DUDE.
― John Justen, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:20 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Does someone have "Bergtatt" handy and could send it to me?
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:56 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks, GOTT!!
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:32 (seventeen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
i must now hear six finger satellite
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
You may find it hard to divine the thread.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
?
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
check them out, just got offed, i think you might like them
― kamerad, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― the sir weeze, Monday, 15 September 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I've found myself deeply drawn to Bergtatt lately. It's becoming an obsessive, regular spin. There's something about the churning, hyper-melodic tunes with the pseudo-Gregorian chant vocals that rivets me.
And there's that irresistible contrary element to Ulver. The way they identified with the spirit of black metal as it was developing, but they refused to be confined to it. I like that.
So far, Enslaved is the only other BM outfit that capture my imagination in the same manner.
― Brooker Buckingham, Thursday, 13 November 2008 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Ulver rule, cant stop listening to them lately.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Bergtatt is amazing, a total classic - if anyone can recommend anything on similar lines, I'd love to hear it. Borknagar didn't do it for me, Blut Aus Nord's 'Ultima Thulee' is as close as I've got.
― Soukesian, Friday, 14 November 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Well Alcest's sound is heavily based upon "Bergtatt". Also, Forgotten Woods were contemporaries along the same lines.
― Siegbran, Friday, 14 November 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Alcest, I know and like. Forgotten Woods' take on Baudelaire angers me deeply, sad and nerdy as that may seem.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Fancy hearing some live Ulver? Maihaugsalen Live 2009 bootleg
If mods dont want links to live bootlegs feel free to delete it and anyone can PM me for the link.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
earth calling LJ
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Fancy SEEING some live Ulver: http://www.terrorizer.com/content/ulver-announce-historic-uk-performance
― Status Quo hell at the end of the 80s (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 August 2009 10:06 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
just booked tickets, am in back row of rear stalls but I DON'T CARE
there were only like 12 tickets left, I hate to say it but thank FUCK for Facebook's sponsored ads, and their creepy reading of my profile details
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw ILX's favourite metal-lovin' sometime-nursin' occasionally-songwritin' nascently-novelisin' dude is playing the same venue a week later and I as a former employee of the Southbank complex am fucked if I'm giving 'em any more money so pretty please try to get me in gratis and we're talking OUTLAY on yr album(s) at the stall I COULD HAVE BEEN MANNING if they hadn't fired me and forced me to take up a Masters degree instead XD
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
An Ulver gig from Greece this November has just gone up on D1m3adoz3n if anyone is interested.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 5 December 2009 09:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I dont torrent really but if anyone made a mediafire or something i'd be interested.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd be happy to grab it for anyone.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be great, thanks!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, well it came down the tubes pretty quick, PM me Herman or anyone else and I'll mail a CD.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Another London show coming up at the Scala in february
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
oops missed your post. will pm you now
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this time i'll book early! hopefully they'll play, like, 'christmas' this time :p
― like having an eternal kazoo in your underwear (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else want this before I take it off my hard drive?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
FINE, you always knew I'd say yes eventually
― Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight! (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I ought to sound more enthusiastic than that. This sounds pretty dope! Wahey! You know my address! That's better.
― Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight! (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link