Ulver in 2003
Background information
Origin	Norway
Genre(s)	Black metal Folk Electronic Dark ambient Experimental
Years active	1993 – Present
Label(s)	Jester Records The End Records Century Black House of Kicks
Members
Kristoffer Garm Rygg Jørn H. Sværen Tore Ylwizaker

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Musical overview

Black Metal Trilogie

Ulver's first three albums are often classified as their "Black Metal Trilogie," although they are in fact quite diverse in musical styles, and in fact weren't all black metal, ironically. The vocals of these earlier releases are performed in archaic Danish language, with lyrics inspired by various tales of Norse mythology and folk tales (possibly viking metal strictly speaking, but more overtly folk than viking metal is). Danish (dansk) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. ... Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ... Scandinavian folklore is the folklore of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. ... Viking metal is a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. ...

Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler is considered to be folk-inspired black metal for its fast tempo, dry sound of electric guitar and unnatural screaming vocals intermitted with acoustic passages and clean vocals, and having a fantasy storyline (a potentially viking metal album, but possessing more general folk passages as opposed to folk music being intertwined with the black metal). The title "Bergtatt" translates directly into "Mountain taken", meaning "to be captured by the mountain" The word is often used in Norwegian folk tales, describing people who are lured to wander off into the mountains by trolls or other beings. The subtitle translates into "A Tale in Five Chapters." The central theme of this album follows a woman as she loses her way in a mountainside forest, and slowly begins to be lured deeper by mysterious beings lurking around her. Bergtatt features an all-acoustic song, Ein Stemme Locker ("A Voice Beckons"). Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg, the band's main contributor, has since said that he thought of Bergtatt as a “very traditional black metal album.” ^[1] Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (Spellbound - A faerietale in 5 chapters) is the debut album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... Black metal started in the early 1980s with bands such as Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, and Hellhammer. ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Viking metal is a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. ... Kristoffer Garm Rygg Kristoffer Rygg, also known as Garm, Trickster G, G. Wolf, and Fiery G. Maelstrom is a Norwegian vocalist, musician and producer widely known for his multi-range singing styles in black metal and beyond. ...

Kveldssanger, Ulver's second album, contrasts with Bergtatt as it uses acoustic guitar and cello with chamber chants performed by Garm, and completely eschews the traditional black metal elements of Bergtatt, while still having a folk theme. Garm has since remarked that Kveldssanger was an “immature attempt at making a classical album.” Kveldssanger (Twilight Songs) is the Sophomore album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ...

The third album, Nattens Madrigal (“The Night’s Madrigal”), was a return to black metal, more ferocious than Bergtatt ever was, the only "mellow" moment being a brief acoustic interlude in the first track. The style is very raw and intentionally underproduced, akin to Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger album, with buzzing guitars and barely audible drums. There are rumors surrounding this album and its recording, the most famous being that the band recorded this album in a forest. Another and less-known rumor is that the band purposely recorded the album on a four-track cassette recorder and used the money that Century Media gave them for other things, for example Armani suits, haircuts, cocaine, beer, and/or a new car. These rumors have both been refuted by Kristoffer Rygg. Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (Madrigal of the Night - Eight Hymnes to the Wolf in Man) is the third album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... Madrigal may refer to: Madrigal, Spain Trecento-Madrigal, a musical form of the 13th and 14th centuries Madrigal (music), a musical form of the 16th and 17th centuries Madrigal (literature) Madrigal may also be: A city in the computer game Myth The fictional character Anna Madrigal from Armistead Maupins... Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (Spellbound - A faerietale in 5 chapters) is the debut album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... Darkthrone is a highly influential Norwegian black metal band formed in 1986. ... Transilvanian Hunger is the fourth album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. ... Century Media Records is an independant metal record label with offices in the USA, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. ... Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer (born 11 July 1934 in Piacenza, Italy), particularly noted for his menswear. ...

Confounding

Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, released in 1998, was completely different from what Ulver, and furthermore, any other band, had made before. Tore Ylwizaker, new member and composer / sound architect, paired up with Garm's continuously expanding vision and together they stepped over the boundaries of black metal aesthetics, creating an original, genre-defying work. In this album, the musicians blended electronics, industrial elements, progressive metal, neo-classical folk, ambient passages, and trip-hop. Lyrically, the album incorporates the entire text of the William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and features guest vocals. Despite confounding and perhaps alienating many fans of the band's first three albums, the album received widespread acclaim from critics within both the rock/metal and alternative music press. Themes from William Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is the fourth album by Norwegian experimental group Ulver. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Progressive metal is a genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe DJ Shadow s hip hop instrumentals that (inspired by Organized Confusions track Releasing Hypnotical Gases) changed-up the beat and pallet mid-cut, giving the listener... William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of William Blakes prophetic books, a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing Blakes own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. ...

Ulver Evolves

Ulver's next two releases, the EP Metamorphosis and full-length album Perdition City, were even more experimental than the “Blake Album”. The band had moved further away from rock and metal and into a more electronic genre, much like that of Coil. The use of electronics is much more extensive here than on previous albums. Neo-classical composer and film scorer Craig Armstrong may have been an influence on Ulver as his use of electronics, trip-hop and hip hop beats over strings and pianos is somewhat reminiscent of Ulver's later works. Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single, but are too short to qualify as albums. ... Perdition City is the fifth studio album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... Coil (1982 - 13 November 2004) were a cross-genre, experimental music group who worked in such forms as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, drone music, and minimalism. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... Craig Armstrong Craig Armstrong (b. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe DJ Shadow s hip hop instrumentals that (inspired by Organized Confusions track Releasing Hypnotical Gases) changed-up the beat and pallet mid-cut, giving the listener... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ...

Silence

The band followed up these two releases with few-vocaled minimalist/glitch works Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing. These works featured minimalist melodies and often had lots of weird and unnatural noises in the song structures. It has been said that these two EPs, released together as "Teaching in Silence", were the weirdest and most bizarre works Ulver ever released. Minimalist music is a genre of experimental music named in the 1960s which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation (no... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ...

Films

For their unique atmospheric sound, Ulver were hired to make music for cinema films Lyckantropen, Svidd neger and Uno. Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ... Svidd neger (in english, burned negro) was the title of a controversial Norwegian film released in 2003 directed by Erik Smith Meyer and written by Stein Elvestad. ...

Modern Era

In 2003, Ulver began making more symphonic music. They released A Quick Fix of Melancholy, which kept the minimalist, sparse stylings of their previous albums, while adding a much more expressive, dramatic, symphonic element, with various string sounds (most likely sampled) and various operatic singing styles. A symphony is an extended piece of music for orchestra, especially one in the form of a sonata. ... A Quick Fix of Melancholy is an EP by Norwegian avant-garde/Post-black metal band Ulver. ...

In July 2004, the band finished recording their next album, Blood Inside, which was released on June 6th, 2005. With Blood Inside, the band stepped away from the more minimal styles they had been experimenting with previously. Bringing back more traditional rock instruments like guitar and acoustic drums (since 1998 the band had used primarily digital drums and/or sampled beats), and combining them with a whole slew of real and synthetic classical instruments, brass horns and sound samples, the band created something they had never done before. Managing to fuse genres ranging from rock, classical, minimalism, electronica and vintage prog with Garm's amazingly broad vocal range, Ulver created an album that was far beyond anything anyone has heard in the avantgarde scene. Blood Inside is an album by the Norwegian experimental metal band Ulver. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Minimalist music is a genre of experimental music named in the 1960s which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation (no... Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a military practice of deploying an Advanced Guard, a small troop of highly-skilled soldiers which would explore terrain ahead of a large advancing army and plot the course the army would follow. ...

Ulver have most recently collaborated with drone band Sunn O))) on a 15-minute track which appears on Sunn O)))'s WHITEbox box set, released in July of 2006. Additionally, Ulver had announced back in 2002 that they had been working on a string remake of Nattens Madrigal, but Garm has stated on the message board of his alternative rock band, Head Control System, that the project "is in a state of total dormancy." ” ^[2] Pioneered by the band Earth, Drone metal, also known as drone doom, is a subgenre of doom metal that takes the heaviness and slowness of its progenitor to a new extreme. ... Sunn O))) (pronounced simply sun) is an American drone metal band, in its broadest sense; however, it incorporates elements of the dark ambient, metal and drone doom genres as well. ... Sunn O))) (pronounced simply sun) is an American drone metal band, in its broadest sense; however, it incorporates elements of the dark ambient, metal and drone doom genres as well. ... Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (Madrigal of the Night - Eight Hymnes to the Wolf in Man) is the third album by Norwegian post-black metal band Ulver. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Discography

Full lengths

Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (1995)	Kveldssanger (1996)	Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (1997)	Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998)
Perdition City (2000)	Blood Inside (2005)

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Other releases

• Vargnatt demo (1993)
• Split EP with Mysticum (1994)
• The Trilogie - Three Journeyes through the Norwegian Netherworlde (1998)
• Metamorphosis EP (1999)
• Silence Teaches You How To Sing EP(2001)
• Silencing The Singing EP (2001)
• Teachings In Silence EP (incl. both "Silence" EPs) (2002)
• Lyckantropen Themes (2002)
• 1993-2003: First Decade in the Machines (2003)
• A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP (2003)
• Svidd Neger Soundtrack (2003)

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Contributions and Guest Appearances

• Feuersturm - Century Media Records Compilation (1997) - "Soelen Gaaer Bag Aase Need"
• Souvenirs from Hell - Compilation (1997) - "Synen"
• Ablaze Compilation - Ablaze Magazine Compilation (1998) - "Of Wolf and the Night"
• Lords of Chaos: The History of the Occult - Lords of Chaos Compilation (2002) - often called "(untitled exclusive track)", but in fact it is a rehearsal of "Hymne VI - Wolf And Passion" from Nattens Madrigal
• Merzbow - Frog Remixed & Revisited - Merzbow Remix Compilation (2003) - "Denki No Numa (Frog Voice Mix)"
• The Lotus Eaters - Dead Can Dance Tribute Compilation (2004) - "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings"
• Uno - Soundtrack (2004) - "Uno," "Avhør," "Brødre," "Brødre Rev.," "Flukt," "Gravferd," "David Til Ulvene"
• Salto, Salmiakk Og Kaffe - Soundtrack (2004) - unreleased.
• Gods of Thunder - Kiss Tribute Compilation (2005) - "Strange Ways"
• Sunn O))) - WHITEbox (2006) - "CUTWOODeD"

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Current Members

• Kristoffer Rygg (aka Garm, Trickster G., G. Wolf, Fiery G. Maelstrom) - Vocals, Additional Programming
• Jørn H. Sværen - Drums
• Tore Ylwizaker - Programming, Keyboards

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Session / Guest / Former Members

• Håvard Jørgensen (aka Haavard) - Guitar (Vargnatt through Themes), Session Guitar on Blood Inside
• Torbjørn Pedersen (aka Aismal aka Tykje) - Guitar (Bergtatt through Themes)
• Grellmund - Guitar on Vargnatt(R.I.P. died on New Year's Eve 1997/98 by suicide)
• A. Reza - Guitar on Vargnatt
• Erik Olivier Lancelot (aka AiwarikiaR) - Drums, Flute (Bergtatt through Themes)
• Carl-Michael Eide (aka Aggressor aka Czral aka Exhurtum) - Drums on Vargnatt, guest drums on Blood Inside
• Hugh Steven James Mingay (aka Skoll) - Bass (Bergtatt through themes)
• Robin - Bass (Vargnatt)
• Bosse - Guitar Solo on Blood Inside
• Jeff Gauthier - Violin on Blood Inside
• Mike Keneally - Guitar on Blood Inside
• Andreas Mjøs - Vibraphone on Blood Inside
• Maja S. K. Ratkje - Choir on Blood Inside
• Knut Aalefjær - Drums & Percussion on Blood Inside
• Steinar Sverd Johnsen (aka Sverd) - Piano on Vargnatt & Bergtatt
• Alf Gaaskjønli - Cello on Kveldssanger
• Knut Magne Valle - Guitar on Themes...
• Rolf Erik Nyström - Saxophone on Perdition City
• Jan Axel Blomberg (aka Hellhammer) - Drums (on the song "Synen", released on the Souvenirs From Hell Compilation)
• Ivar H. Johansen - Drums on Perdition City
• Kåre J. Pedersen - Drums on Perdition City
• Bård G. Eithun (aka Faust) - Drums on Perdition City
• Øystein Moe - Bass on Perdition City
• Stine Grytøyr aka "her" - Vocals on Themes...
• Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen (aka Samoth) - Vocals on Themes...
• Vegard Sverre Tveitan (aka Ihsahn) - Vocals on Themes...
• Gylve Nagell (aka Fenriz) - Vocals on Themes...
• Lill Katherine Stensrud - Vocals on Vargnatt, Bergtatt, Flute on Bergtatt

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Related bands

• Coil - Probably the band by which 2000-2002 era Ulver is most inspired by and analogous to. This British-based experimental band has redefined the essence of electronic and minimalist music
• Arcturus - Another project of Ulver members Garm and Skoll, as well as Ulver session members Sverd and Knut Magne Valle, which started as symphonic black metal and transitioned into avant-garde metal. Garm left the band in 2003.
• Borknagar - Norwegian folk-inspired black metal band that featured Garm on vocals on their first two albums.
• Ved Buens Ende - Side project of Skoll and Carl-Michael Eide. Since disbanded and recently reunited.
• Head Control System — Still another of Garm’s side projects, this time a duet with a Portuguese metal musician Daniel Cardoso.

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Note

1. ↑  — The quote was taken from an interview with the band which can be found on the Lyckantropen DVD (2002).
2. ↑  - the quote was taken from http://www.headcontrolsystem.com/thesektor/viewtopic.php?t=109 (link is dead now)

External links

• Ulver's official page at Jester Records' website. Contains general information about the members, release history and interviews.
• "authorised Ulver website", not updated since October 2002.