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  • I always loved Black metal because it took me on a journey. but this takes me on a much greater one! after a while you get bored of travelling to the deep woods and mountains, this takes me beyond the earths atmosphere.

  • so, duh, I suppose that you can either like black metal Ulver or ambient Ulver. both is not an option, uh?

  • I like ulve becuase os this, not because of the BM!!

  • Black Metal Ambient ?

  • @essai2708 That would be something, but it would take time for people to accept a fusion of two such contrasting genres...

  • @Thatmetaldude590 You do know that ambient black metal is a pretty well-known fusion? See Darkspace, Paysage d'Hiver, Velvet Cocoon and others. Burzum was of course the origin of it all.

  • @RevoBong Ooh... It's quite interesting how I could forget Burzum. Yet I believe the most well-known bands within the black-metal scene are those that stick to the plain genre (e.g. Dimmu, Darkthrone, Watain..). However, I love experimental music, and hopefully there will be more musical mixtures in the future.

    Thanks for the suggestions btw :)

  • @Thatmetaldude590 My interest in black metal lies for a great part with those experimental bands, and there are a lot of them! I think doom and black metal are by far the most experimental metal genres at the moment. Some of my favourite bands: Lantlôs, Alcest (and everything Neige does), Altar of Plagues, Fen, Drudkh, Aaskereia, Trist, Shining, Woe, Nachtmystium, Weakling, Urfaust, Wrath of the Weak and especially: Petrychor. Ranging from atmospheric to suicidal to noise black metal.

  • @RevoBong Wow, that's quite a lot! Out of the ones you mentioned I've only listened to Darkspace, Drudkh, Shining (Halmstad [2007] is a drug in itself) and Burzum more than just a few songs. But I agree; there's quite a number of similar bands (Livsnekad, Xasthur, Summoning, Týr, Nile, Enisferum, Grá, Agalloch, Septicflesh etc). I've begun to notice that those of my friends that listen to these also become more open to other bands that merge music in the same fashion.

  • love my bergtatt always will, love this more

  • love it! put me right to sleep.

    love the amazing artwork too. so cool, dark, and unclear; almost like someone who doesn't know how to use a camera took the shot. i guess this it true art.

  • notice how this song is exactly 60pbm ^^ you can tell by the timer of the video

  • 1:48 - 2:02 .....mind blowing

  • Prolly the coolest album cover ever

  • is it just me or is youtube slow very slow i can download other videos fine but not here

  • fucking great \m/

  • This song is one of the few in this world that I believe can be called beautiful with a straight face...and here you all are arguing about what era Ulver is better...what the hell is hte matter with you? Butthurt much?

  • After 2:48 play it with wuwuzelas, it makes perfect mash-up :D

  • Anyone else agree that that is one lovely dark photo they have for an album cover?

  • @TheStarlessAeon agree

  • I think we can all agree that this band has a great deal of integrity and talent.

  • @JukuTV i know, right? an actual musician?? wtf

  • holy shit this is an amazing song

  • Im more a fan of their BM stuff, but this is not bad.

  • People...this is Ulver. Leave the bullshit comments out of this link. It's music and nothing more. Enjoy it or don't listen to it!

  • i realize what you mean about the situation with Darkthrone, although im not quite sure if they are even satanists. keep in mind that alot of their lyrics dont always deal with that subject, and alot of the ones that do were written by Varg Vikernes aka Burzum. as for the backmasked message on "As Flittermice As Satans Spies," i think it was Varg who did that message. you may have a point though, as to why Darkthrone would allow a PURELY INTENTIONAL quote like that on THEIR album is a mystery...

  • @Ebonshire it was definately a competition but its results on christianity are the point...besides one of them lost his life and the other stayed behind bars for a long time....by the way i have never heard that darkthrone where involved...actually one reason that i like them so much besides the music is that i thaught they where not involved...do you know any specific thing they did??

  • @Ebonshire im no satanist or so...and i believe in god...but in my point of view...christianity has done A LOT worse crimes than this...so it deserved the burnings...but the murders where definately stupidity

  • Dear All,

    How many of you hate Xianity as a organisation? How many of you actualy did something to show that not everyone will kneel for the glory his jewish majesty?

    What he did was stupid (as a 19 yr old guy) I do agree. But imagine how much courage he had.

    Rgds!

  • That's just a rumour but knowing the BM scene at the time (and of course Euronymous) I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. They did, however, make necklaces out of fragments of Dead's skull.

  • yeah... good song... listen also uaral band

  • Just discovered this band. This song is amazing.

  • Ulver moved away from black metal years ago.

    This is beautiful, although I little slow for my tastes. I prefer peridition city.

  • I'm both glad and upset early black metal bands evolve. I'm glad because they are really smart people with some very interesting views on life, and their music is so beautiful. But what upsets me is that some of their classic stuff isn't played more often which is what got me into them in the first place.

    Plus I hate the burning of churches and the murders, It's stupid and only throws negative feed back to the genre.

  • Not every black metal bnad is involved with church burnings and murders like mayhem you know

  • Euronymous never burned churches or killed anyone.

    Burning churches applies to Varg Vikernes, Jørn Inge Tunsberg of Hades Almighty and random spastic followers.

  • Euronymous wasn't a murderer or a church-burner. He was just an asshole. It sounds awful to say he had it coming but let's face it, he wasn't exactly the nicest person in the world.

  • He was a nice person caught up in a dream world from his image which was Black Metal.

  • No, he was a douchebag. Read up on him sometime.

  • Funny, when I met him he was really nice.

  • @LHCLEGION

    exactly! Varg served his time for his crime. There's no need to dwell on the apst and who was right and who was wrong

  • Ulver is more than music. Its all feelings of human beings put together. You can feel anger, sorrow and hapiness at the same time while hearing this. Garm is truly an artist of life. He paints the colors of world in to simple notes.

  • why is hard m8?Have u ever study the music of black metal?I mean study it :)

  • por fortuna ulver desde sus inicios me ha a compañado.

  • wow this was the biggest surprise ever, just from the album cover I was expecting some generic black metal band.... but this has completely blown me away

  • @4look4rd how the fuck does the cover look like it would be on a generic black metal record? have you ever seen a black metal cover before?

  • Let me clarify--I realize this is not 'Frost' but 'Ulver', just trying to say that now I get what I missed because I was too busy going "duh, this isn't metal..." 20 years ago and therefore writing the whole thing off in favor of the 'Metallica/Slayer' box in which I was so comfortable... Ah, foolish me...

  • Very interesting. I got a chance to see the very begninnings of the 'avant agrde' movement in the mid 80's (although the roots of this have been with us since the dark ages). I remember listening to such bands as Celtic Frost around '86 and '87 and having no concept of what they were trying to do. I hear this 20 years on and now I get it. I now hear their 'Into The Pandemonium' and the like in a totally different context. Thank you for this...

  • Not exactly new anymore, but a great song anyway.

  • Agree JukuTV, one of the best musicians on the planet imho.

  • weird but beautiful!

  • This is good with whiskey.

  • I feel like if i need a big glass of icecream with coke... that's the shit right there.

  • A flower

    Will open

    On the grave

  • man this brings me to my knees... I cannot describe exactly what it makes me feel... Like depressive gratitude. Just beautiful

  • Btw. Beautiful cover

  • Although i'm very keen on bm and its consistence - ulver has just to be admired for their work and their new path of blending these genres together! Both musical eras are simply stunning!

  • same

  • ....We are proud of our former instincts, but wish to liken our association with said genre to that of the snake with Eve. An incentive to further frolic only. If this discourages you in any way, please have the courtesy to refrain from voicing superficial remarks regarding our music and/or personae. We are as unknown to you as we always were.

    stop bitching and listen to the music.

    or sod off.

  • thank you for saying that, kind sir. Off to the music..

  • Ulver is obviously not a black metal band and does not wish to be stigmatized as such. We acknowledge the relation of part I & III of the Trilogie (Bergtatt & Nattens Madrigal) to this culture, but stress that these endeavours were written as stepping stones rather than conclusions...

  • masterpiece whole f*ckin album

  • Being open minded is not saying we are open minded.

  • So...

    Is this the evolution of metal?

  • No it's revolutionary music. They can hardly be considered metal now. It is still mind blowing

  • amazing , wonderful song...

  • personally: BM Ulver > Ambient Ulver

    and it's still hard for me to believe that a band who wrote such beautiful and touching albums like nattens madrigal or bergtatt could change so radically

    but

    I don't have to hate everyone that thinks otherwise, I can see that this has not become some bs techno crap

    so fuck the genre, hails to all of you who like this band ;>

  • For me, I think they did the Genre change pretty well. I liked the BM Ulver version too. It just kinda changed my appreciation for them a bit.

  • @Shizzlmadizzl some techno rules as well.

  • @Shizzlmadizzl i consider this more "beautiful and touching" than Nattens Madrigal. Nattens Madrigal is more harsh but at the same time, epic and brilliant. i love both phases of ulver, but NM is probably my favorite.

  • beautiful music, and the cover, although I don't really sure what means...

  • looking at pictures of ghosts/weird stuff/scenery and listening to ulver really gets me in a mood that doesn't come often and it's a good one...sort of separates me from the mundane routine i live otherwise.

  • Ulver is quite simply, odd. I am not sure what to make of them. I see the art in it all, but at the same time it makes completely zero sense to me and yet does.

  • @AHalcyon thats what true art is

  • Amazing. My personal favorite from this last album.

  • Serene.

  • Yes anyone whohas an opposing viewpoint than that of yours is to be fucked. that's...mature.

  • I'd say that's pretty much the human condition, unfortunately.

  • I pity you because you think you understand the music but you have stopped somewhere in the middle of your own stupidity and dare to say that this is "shit"? If the only expression for you is through drums, guitars etc., than you must br really unsophisticad man with simple point of view. The development of music and their open minds to its form shows their potential as artists and truly defines their greatness. You will never understand it because it clearly exceeds you thinking.

  • this one was for ccalincani !!!!!!

  • Great Song! W ULVER!

  • lol!

  • Love it!!!

  • Shivers... no words

  • got this yesterday, its fucking good

  • this is a form of progressive metal.. And this song is very good.

  • He's right, Ulver used to be a Black Metal band in the early- mid 90's and released Nattens Madrigal and Bergtatt. But they turned around and started making melodic Folk Metal in Kveldssanger and Vargnatt, and then switched to Progressive /Ambient metal in Perdition City, Blood Inside, and are now incorporating even more of it in this new album, Shadows of the Sun.

  • This single song could be the most beutiful song Ulver ever have composed, or maybe even Garms most beutiful.

  • mesmweizing like floyd mind trip

  • Seriously, why does "Terroriser" review this crap, If these guys are extreme metal I'll remove my balls with a butter knife!

  • Why shouldn't they?

  • Because "Terroriser" is a magazine for extreme metal music, not ambient experimental synth. There are loads of other magazines, like "Womans Day", for instence, which are much better suited to music like this!

  • Terrorizer reviews Much more genres than extreme metal, and this definitely is one band that deserves too be reviewed by terrorizer 100% relevant to the extreme metal scene although the music is no where even close to metal. Extreme Metal is linked with Avante Garde Metal and this is just plain Avante Garde

  • Im sorry, but I fail to see any metal in this band's music. Avante Garde music is not metal, there are literally a dozen or more styles of metal with all the cross overs etc. If you think a band deserves to be reviewed because they play a style which has "links" to metal, then why doesnt Terroriser review bands like, Garth brooks, hey Metallica have played music which is country tinged. Or How about a review of Justin Timberlakes latest, Opeth etc.. uses Synth.!

  • ulver is relevent to terrorizer magazine they used to be a black metal band and there are lot of people that know them because of there black metal roots

  • Why does everybody think that tags like -Metal- or -rock- are unambiguous when they are not?

    Because Ulver used to be BM they have strong ties to the metal scene. And just because Opeth used mostly acoustic guitars on the latest album does not mean that it wasnt a metal album.

    Ulver's latest recordings are -Ambient- and another tag fits them as well. -Post Metal-

  • Your exactly right, ambient / post metal. Your saying it yourself. They are no longer metal. Hey I have nothing against a band wanting to break its shackles if it no longer has a connection with their music roots. Ulver used to be metal. They are no longer, even though they have a close tie because of their past catalog.

  • How did you miss the metal part of post metal?

  • It's kinda like selective hearing. Those who wish not to actually call Ulver metal fail to see how they tie in to the genre. I just got into the band and seeing they utilize different types of metal in their music def. puts them in metal. Not everyone who uses it as an influence should be classified by it but these guys WERE metal and still pull; a great deal of influence from it.

  • hm... who cares?

    I like it, so I don't give a shit about tags

  • just fuck off, yeah?

  • Well go on then, fuck off already!

  • No results found for oppiniont. Did you mean Opinionate (in dictionary) or Opinion (in encyclopedia)? Dictionary suggestions: Opinionate opinion opini�n opinioned opinion's opinions opinions' opponent You're fucking stupid
  • He just made a spelling mistake. You can't call him stupid just for that, also he said it is just an opinion and people can have different opinions to each other. You can't critisize him for that.

  • Nice song!

  • This is cool!

  • I love Ulver because you never know what to expect. There's some of there more elctronic stuff, then their new stuff off of Shadows of The Sun is so serene-ish, then there's the old stuff which is more black metal/folk influenced.

  • ZAJEBISTA:)

  • Black metal evolution, werewolves evolution

  • Indeed a quick fix of melancholly

  • Niezła jazda Znowu heh

  • It's an awesome record imo. And this song stands out as one of the best once on the record. :)

  • Wonderful music.

  • Ulver is mozard level.

  • Shadows of the Sun is great, Vigil is great, Ulver is great. Thanks for uploading :-)

  • this album is one of the most haunting albums i've ever listened to.

  • Great song! S_R_C

  • Beautiful...

  • I've listened to the album a few times now. It's not their best (that's perdition city, in my account), but it's still one of my favorite Ulver albums to date. Kris was right about the 'dark, and low-key' part of the album. I love it!

  • This album is amazing and beautiful, easily Ulver's best Post-Metal album

  • there is now another new song "funebre" on their myspace site.

  • yep i heard it a few days ago.

  • MORE!!!!!

  • Ulver > all

  • definitely

  • completly true.

  • i really dig the piano and vocals in the middle of the song, so beautiful.

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