i've been an Ulver fan from the very beginning and i'm always like: "people...you have to understand the genius of these guys"....Blinded by Blood is a miracle of song writing. i agree with you whole-heartedly.
i agree the new album is amazing. it makes you want to devour all the positions from their discography again. totally inspiring and refreshing. and, most importantly, disquieting.
What a band! I follow them from their black metal days till now! Everything they have done its so unique! I am waiting to see them in Athens on saturday! horns up!
New album is totally amazing... listen to it at the evening, when it's dark... It'll take your breath away. I actually laughed out loud at the awesomeness of some of the songs.
Both have their own merits really. Bergtatt is hypnotic and beautiful, but Perdition City is chilling and moving. Shadows of The Sun is simply breathtaking...
Ulver are probly one of the best musicians from Norway. Not even in this genre. They've shown their great skills in both folk and folk/black metal :) Lovely
" "It Is Not Sound" is heavily based on Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prominent melody played with keyboards can easily be found in Bach's work, but there are other extracts in the background also. " wikipedia my friends ;]
This is far more sophisticated than black metal. I think what happened is they grew as musicians. I used to love metal... 8-10 years or so ago when I was a kid, then my horizons broadened and I realized music has much more to offer.
Watching this again I feel like the crowned man spinning into the air represents the precession of the Earth, especially with the crown tilted at an angle. Also he is rising up which could represent moving towards a higher consciousness. In light of this and the fact that he is shot in the end, I get the sense that they are trying to express the coming age of enlightenment and the dangers that our lower instincts pose to this process.
Similar to "Bergtatt" album - Vintersorg "Till Fjalls" Album Similar to "Kveldssanger" album - Empyrium (whatever album) Similar to "Nattens Madrigal" album - Darkthrone "Transylvanian Hunger" album I listened to Ulver since Kveldssanger album and listened to Nattens Madrigal when was released back in 1997 (on Century Black label) and it blew my mind, so aggresive and raw! I praise a lot their black metal trilogie, but I embraced their change of style in 1998 and still like them. Pure genius!
One of the best bands ever they're hella talented the transition from black metal to i guess electronic/alternative(correct me if im wrong)was weird but its still good
I have been listening to their older stuff (black metal trilogy) for a while now and have been wary of checking out their new music. However, I must say, this is REALLY great, probably getting Blood Inside soon.
Not to mention the 'musical component' is the time signatures, instrument usage, compositions in general and structure....but yes, it is funny how totally altering everything about a style of music creates a new genre >_>
I havent listened this band since nattens madrigal!!! Bergtatt which blowed my mind away in the 90`s and still one of my favorite albums!!! Little sounds like Arcturus... Maybe same bandmembers these days??? Sorry, i have been out of the "scene" because my own reasons!!!
Well, It is not common to see a video about a boat above a sea of people and two guys beating them! LOL Not sure about what is the video about, but It is really twisted, and I love it!
Also he climbs the mountain/tower which could represent rising above the dark figures which represent the unconscious mind unchecked or what Jung calls our shadow. When he reaches the top he has conquered his own shadow, he is crowned and changes from his rags.
Ulver never was "generic", they were Black Metal yeah, at those time they had a very particular way of playing Black/Folk. And it was actually going great, now more than 10 years had passed, and i honestly can´t see the greatness of what they´re doing now. Only if Nattens Madrigal have had a better production maybe Ulver would still be Black Metal. Who knows... i knew Ulver when they were starting long time ago, and this has nothing to do with things back then...
@o0Evangelion20140o I think the problem is not that Ulver once played Black Metal, it was that they honestly recorded the greatest black metal album of all time and then said "No More" I love all their stuff but it still saddens me that they never recorded another BM album because "Nattens Madrigal" is the best of its genre.
@TalvellaMaa Nothing random about their music. Every sound and note is placed for a reason. It's not for most people, that's for sure. But they are definately good and unique.
i don't assume anything, and i agree with you partly, enlightenment (or pure genius) is far too often confused with drug usage or madness. but then again, my experience is that there are states of mind and ideas born form these states that have little to do wih enlightenment and are exclusively accessible through psychotropics. and i feel the song and the video are one of these. that's all
SOMETHING TO DO WITH POLITICS, RELIGION, WAR AND DEATH? THAT IS USUALLY THE GOING THEME TODAY WITH MOST ALTERNATIVE SOUND HARDCORE, SEMI-UNDERGROUND BANDS. TAKE A LISTEN TO WALTER CARLOS (Wendy Carlos now) AND LISTEN TO THIS TUNE AND YOU WILL SEE THE LIGHT.
i've been an Ulver fan from the very beginning and i'm always like: "people...you have to understand the genius of these guys"....Blinded by Blood is a miracle of song writing. i agree with you whole-heartedly.
I love the ulver style.. and all the avant-garde style is really amazing..!!
Strangely Beautiful!
I love their music & videos.
Ulver is my favorite band.... when i got Perdition City i couldn't stop listening it for several months. Blood Inside is also a masterpice.
I love this song, so much. It seriously just take me to another world. I listen to it on the train to work and I'm gone.
I'm SO buying this album! Anything to support these geniuses
Ulver has become one of my favourite musical projects. Truly inspiring and definitely distinct sound!
The guys in Ulver are really geniouses cause they can create music like this, simple yet complicated. I really love it!
This is so.....just beautiful. It's ART.
So pretty, so special, so....weird! Just the way I like it. The video is PERFECT.
Man, hearing this through a clear digital headset... it's amazing!
RESPECT TO YOUR MUSIC ... FROM GREECE
i agree the new album is amazing. it makes you want to devour all the positions from their discography again. totally inspiring and refreshing. and, most importantly, disquieting.
Ulver are really brilliant and this vidéos is as awesome as her song.
Greatest experimental band!
Thanks for posting!
Awesome, absolutely crazy.
Ulver made the best black metal and electronic infuenced,,, avant garde etc ever on this planet!!!!!!!
Wow fantastic! They have a great style, very interesting.
ever evolving, ever intelligent. Black Metal's consumate survivors, Electronic music's dark shades. Hail, Ulver.
What a band! I follow them from their black metal days till now! Everything they have done its so unique! I am waiting to see them in Athens on saturday! horns up!
The intro sound makes a good ringtone. :)
New album is totally amazing... listen to it at the evening, when it's dark... It'll take your breath away. I actually laughed out loud at the awesomeness of some of the songs.
Both have their own merits really. Bergtatt is hypnotic and beautiful, but Perdition City is chilling and moving. Shadows of The Sun is simply breathtaking...
Ulver just held their first concert in 15 years. Yay!
It is not sound, it is perfection
Ulver are probly one of the best musicians from Norway. Not even in this genre. They've shown their great skills in both folk and folk/black metal :) Lovely
Shadows Of The Sun is an INCREDIBLE record!
you can find it in Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine as well, also a great track and very likely be a big influence for Ulver.
very versatile musicians, gotta love 'em
Ambient Monks. Love them . All of their works are unearthly and simply amazing
This video and song blows my mind
Great video, great track!
énorme!
I like all of Ulver.
I use to hate the new stuff but i admit I like it now. Perhaps because over the years my taste in music has grown a little.
MINDBLOWING VIDEO. SUPERB COMPOSITION. WHERE ARE THESE GUYS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?
" "It Is Not Sound" is heavily based on Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prominent melody played with keyboards can easily be found in Bach's work, but there are other extracts in the background also. "
wikipedia my friends ;]
I think this may be the greatest video I've ever seen.
This sounds trippy.. very trippy.. perfect getting stoned music...
Ulver is the greatest band alive.
Nattens Madrigal is a really great album (I would say theirs best). And production is the best part of it.
Thank you!! This has literally been bugging me for years.
This is far more sophisticated than black metal. I think what happened is they grew as musicians. I used to love metal... 8-10 years or so ago when I was a kid, then my horizons broadened and I realized music has much more to offer.
Watching this again I feel like the crowned man spinning into the air represents the precession of the Earth, especially with the crown tilted at an angle. Also he is rising up which could represent moving towards a higher consciousness. In light of this and the fact that he is shot in the end, I get the sense that they are trying to express the coming age of enlightenment and the dangers that our lower instincts pose to this process.
Wow I love the concept of a sea of shadowy arms like that.
Similar to "Bergtatt" album - Vintersorg "Till Fjalls" Album
Similar to "Kveldssanger" album - Empyrium (whatever album)
Similar to "Nattens Madrigal" album - Darkthrone "Transylvanian Hunger" album
I listened to Ulver since Kveldssanger album and listened to Nattens Madrigal when was released back in 1997 (on Century Black label) and it blew my mind, so aggresive and raw! I praise a lot their black metal trilogie, but I embraced their change of style in 1998 and still like them. Pure genius!
One of the best videos ever
The video is how i feel when im in church. Jesus just gliding along over humanity in his boat, if one attempts to reach up they get jabed back down.
One of the best bands ever they're hella talented the transition from black metal to i guess electronic/alternative(correct me if im wrong)was weird but its still good
Ahh, the ever-changing Ulver :). I should really check out the new stuff.
I have been listening to their older stuff (black metal trilogy) for a while now and have been wary of checking out their new music. However, I must say, this is REALLY great, probably getting Blood Inside soon.
I love this song, so trippy
Oh shit, this song rules and the new album is going to be great.
this is an example of one of those bands that takes time to understand,sophisticated ,..like bathory in its day
wormburner
Step 1: Buy an Ulver album
Step 2: Get stoned
Step 3: Get into a comfortable position, somewhere you can look up at the stars
Step 4: Transcend
i read an article about ulver...it is said tht they are partly jazz,atmospherical,dark...and other elements...and yea black metal...
I respect their change of heart with the music.. But I like their old albums much more, even though this is pretty good.
awesome song, great video.
lol at 3:50-4:20
Garm is one damn musical genious.
I would love a song like this, but all the mood of the dark intro, with more of the wicked sounds
@joope666 It is the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 by Bach, although some dispute it was him who wrote it.
Not to mention the 'musical component' is the time signatures, instrument usage, compositions in general and structure....but yes, it is funny how totally altering everything about a style of music creates a new genre >_>
with you man! 100% of the way
I havent listened this band since nattens madrigal!!! Bergtatt which blowed my mind away in the 90`s and still one of my favorite albums!!! Little sounds like Arcturus... Maybe same bandmembers these days??? Sorry, i have been out of the "scene" because my own reasons!!!
hmm. just like Samael, they have a unique style and sound. I LIKE IT.
the best of the best, the god in the earth
Well, It is not common to see a video about a boat above a sea of people and two guys beating them! LOL Not sure about what is the video about, but It is really twisted, and I love it!
I damn love ulver...
Also he climbs the mountain/tower which could represent rising above the dark figures which represent the unconscious mind unchecked or what Jung calls our shadow. When he reaches the top he has conquered his own shadow, he is crowned and changes from his rags.
Ulver never was "generic", they were Black Metal yeah, at those time they had a very particular way of playing Black/Folk. And it was actually going great, now more than 10 years had passed, and i honestly can´t see the greatness of what they´re doing now.
Only if Nattens Madrigal have had a better production maybe Ulver would still be Black Metal. Who knows... i knew Ulver when they were starting long time ago, and this has nothing to do with things back then...
i love the new ulver, jeaw good avangarde.
i know the old albums and i listen black metal too. haha
@o0Evangelion20140o I think the problem is not that Ulver once played Black Metal, it was that they honestly recorded the greatest black metal album of all time and then said "No More" I love all their stuff but it still saddens me that they never recorded another BM album because "Nattens Madrigal" is the best of its genre.
@TalvellaMaa Nothing random about their music. Every sound and note is placed for a reason. It's not for most people, that's for sure. But they are definately good and unique.
lol @ 4:30
"get your ass off the boat! This aint no Titanic!"
theyve been doing the whole electronica thing for almost a decade now. I suggest getting Perdition City.
Now, if you want to get high off of Ulver, the best song you should listen to is Nowhere Catastrophe. That song sends shivers down my spine.
It's badass when they start shooting their guns
I love all Ulver releases (well, except maybe the first demos), but I keep on wondering why nobody ever mentions the William Blake album
i dont know what i just listened to, but i fucking loved it
i want that sound as my ringtone
They just happened to grow (which all artist should do)... Forget about the BM Ulver for a bit. You may end up enjoying this track.
aHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH fantastic!
It's actually a quotation from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Well, it's mostly made on a computer, but they're not using auto-tune.
Now that's awesome.
Toccata et Fuga - J.S.Bach. In fact, it's a part of Fuga.
I really like the baroque outro
incredible.
hmmm...
it's farr beyond beyond!
:P
1:20 - 2:20 is awesome
You've posted this in every Ulver song page.
coolest video ever
I can hear Toccata & Fugue theme in this song :D Listen 3:26->, you can hear it! :)
man the old ulver is so much better
@G0dher0 Ulver goes Viking Metal? LOL! That would be a sight to see with hilarious outcomes xD actually they should do that with their next album
i don't assume anything, and i agree with you partly, enlightenment (or pure genius) is far too often confused with drug usage or madness. but then again, my experience is that there are states of mind and ideas born form these states that have little to do wih enlightenment and are exclusively accessible through psychotropics. and i feel the song and the video are one of these. that's all
very good song
first time and i love it
wath kind of music is this??
This is pretty unique.
What is it all about? What is it all about? What what what is it all about? What is it all about?
SOMETHING TO DO WITH POLITICS, RELIGION, WAR AND DEATH? THAT IS USUALLY THE GOING THEME TODAY WITH MOST ALTERNATIVE SOUND HARDCORE, SEMI-UNDERGROUND BANDS. TAKE A LISTEN TO WALTER CARLOS (Wendy Carlos now) AND LISTEN TO THIS TUNE AND YOU WILL SEE THE LIGHT.
This is some seriously trippy shit
awesome video
"this just in- kristoffer joins dimmu borgir on bass and vocals and ulver returns to style heard on bergtatt." yeah right. i wish
beautiful.