I've never heard of Ulver before this. There, I said it!
tk6yG2 wrote:I've never heard of Ulver before this. There, I said it!
:O
...actually, that's not such a big deal; they're pretty obscure. The only 'major' connections they have to more popular underground music, I think, are through Ihsahn (and by extent, Emperor) and Arcturus. Go pick up Shadows of the Sun as soon as you possibly can, find yourself some time to listen to it uninterrupted, and prepare to be blown away.
For the record, I don't think it's even worth comparing BM Ulver to modern Ulver, because they're essentially two entirely separate groups. I have trouble even comparing albums of the same style (IE, is x metal record better than y metal record?); let alone putting something like Perdition City next to Nattens Madrigal and trying to determine which is better. I do prefer everything they've done post-NM, to be honest, but every album is special in it's own way. I guess I like all their newer, more experimental stuff better is because I feel they finally learned how to make a soundtrack to your emotions - not just toy with them as you listen. There's something unique about the sound they've matured into, because I've never heard any other music with that type of... believable atmosphere to it? There's no way to put it, really; they're just Ulver. Simple as that.
Blood Inside is still my favorite by them, but only narrowly... it definitely took me the longest to get into and appreciate, but it's incredible how they create such moments of chaos on it without resorting to any 'traditional' ways of achieving heaviness at all.
there would have been too many collisions of epic in Decon and a black hole would have formed and we'd all be dead anyway.
