ULVER
Messe

Black metal

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Track 1. From Nattens Madrigal off Vargnatt 1993 demo.
Track 2. From A Memorable Fancy Plates 21-22 off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998.
Track 3. From Silence teaches you how to sing off Silence teaches you how to sing ep 2001. Mixed in Oslo and Bergen Dec. 2002
Track 4. Off Lyckantropen Themes 2002. Mixed in France Oct. 2002.
Track 5. From Lost in moments off Perdition City 2000. Mixed in Stovner, Oslo Sept. 2002.
Track 6. From The Voice of the Devil off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998. Bogdan recommends: Cut thinly one medium sized potato and fry in pan with olive oil. Once browned, sprinkle chopped basil and curry powder until smiling. Eat well.
Track 7. From Speak dead speaker off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Made in Wallpaper 2002
Track 8. From Not saved off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Produced and remixed at the Neotropic Media Center. UK 2002. Publ.: Big Orange Cat Music.
Track 9. Various off Perdition City 2000 with samples from renaissance string remake off Nattens Madrigal. Made in Adam's big house, Bruxelles, Belgium 2002. Publ.: BMI.
Track 10. Various off Perdition City 2000. Recorded at Friseur Julie, Austria Nov. 2002. Publ.: Touchmusic [mcps].
Track 11. Various off Perdition City 2000. Publ.: Mego
Track 12.Various off Bergtatt 1994. Mixed in Oslo and Trondheim Nov. 2002.
Track 13. Various off Nattens Madrigal 1996. Publ.: V/Vm Test.
Track 14. Various off Bergtatt 1994 and Nattens Madrigal 1996. Recorded and mixed in bedroom, Tokyo Oct. 2002. Publ.: Merzbow

Jester

H.O.M

K-SCOPE

Over 80 minutes worth of material. This album consists of multitracked and studio-enhanced live, mostly improvisational, rock and electronic soundscapes, 2/3 of which has never been heard before.

- cd Jewelcase
 

HOM

Following last year’s release of ATGCLVLSSCAP, a massively acclaimed album of mainly improvisational,
rock and electronic soundscapes, comes news of a brand new studio album from Ulver – their first since 2011’s "Wars of the Roses".

The album has been recorded and produced by Ulver themselves and mixed by legendary producer Martin ‘Youth’ Glover with Michael Rendall.
Ever evolving, Ulver have never been afraid to make bold musical statements nor to broaden their already expansive sonic palette,
and this new album is no exception.


HOM

The band stated: ‘Flowers of Evil‘, the new studio album from ‘Ulver‘, finds the wolf pack exploring the fear and wonder of mankind’s fall from redemption. Visions similar to those of Orsini come to mind, as untamed life abounds…’

H.O.M

Peaceville

Ole Alexander Halstensgård, Kristoffer Rygg, Tore Ylwizaker and Stian Westerhus – went full isolation in their studio below the haunted hill, fantasizing about bygone nights of slasher, exploitation, and giallo. Three or four months went by, the band returned to the living, and sent their radiophonic workshop experiments off to the Dogs of Doom, France, where friend and fellow film freak, Carpenter Brut did a razor-sharp mix before taking it to Thibault Chaumont (Deviant Lab) for the master.

Scary Muzak, on one hand a homage to Carpenter’s themes – five out of twelve tracks are covers whereas the rest comes from the outer realms – and on the other zooming out on the aesthetics of the late ’70s and early ’80s popular culture. It is perhaps the Norwegians’ most hauntological moment, whirling up themes and moods, horrors and mysteries hidden in the foggy back alleys of your youth. Imagine the gloomy siblings of Les Humphries, Gert Wilden, and their respective orchestras, armed to their teeth with synths, pads, FX. Sometimes classy and chilling, other times amusingly smooth and sleazy, and at times outright beautiful in its suspense-filled vigour, Scary Muzak is an inspired, goblinesque addition to the ever-expanding Ulver catalogue. Interior films, remember?

HOM

House of Mythology proudly presents the official release of Ulver’s monumental Grieghallen concert from the 2018 Bergen International Festival.

Grieghallen 20180528 documents the pinnacle of Ulver’s 2017–2018 touring cycle, following the release of their landmark album The Assassination of Julius Caesar. A massive explosion of sound and light went off in Bergen that night, leaving the baffled audience floating somewhere between pleasure and fear.

Professionally multitracked by the Bright AS stage tech team, Kristoffer Rygg and Anders Møller were asked to mix the tracks for the 2020 “streaming edition” of the same festival. After having circulated as a YouTube bootleg, it is now being made official partly due to popular demand, and partly because we think of it as a magnificent companion piece to the studio version of Caesar – showing Ulver at the height of their live game.

HOM

This edition of Ulver’s Vargnatt marks 30 years since the original release of this classic 1993 demo. 

CD edition with audio sourced from the original DAT. 

Contains the bonus track Vargnatt, captured live at Bootleg TV in Oslo, 1993, and sourced from the original U-matic, courtesy of the National Library of Norway.

Peaceville

2024 reissue on Transparent Petrol Green  Vinyl with LP booklet.

Ulver’s first two legendary Black Metal albums, “Bergtatt” & “Kveldssanger” are finally available again as separate vinyl LPs. Both releases have been remastered for vinyl by Jaime Gomez Arellano as in the long sold-out LP out box set “Trolsk Sortmetall” (2014) and – just as the latest 2019 reissues – come in gatefold sleeves and on 180gr heavy coloured vinyl. The “Bergtatt” 4page LP-Booklet includes a detailed written interview with Ulver’s mastermind Kristoffer Rygg and the “Kveldssanger” 8page LP-Booklet includes sheet notes of the song “Ulvsblakk”. Truly classic Norwegian Black Metal pioneering art!

Century Media

At the end of the roughest year in their history, Ulver is proud to release their thirteenth studio album, titled Liminal Animals. Liminal Animals is permeated by the smell of disaster and documents, with deep concern, a dark and troubled place in a dark and troubled time. The cover art features The Senseless Seven, a 1911 drawing by Austin Osman Spare.

HOM

At the end of the roughest year in their history, Ulver is proud to release their thirteenth studio album, titled Liminal Animals. Liminal Animals is permeated by the smell of disaster and documents, with deep concern, a dark and troubled place in a dark and troubled time. The cover art features The Senseless Seven, a 1911 drawing by Austin Osman Spare.

HOM

"Neverland", the fourteenth studio album by ULVER is the sound of an escape. A journey into undiscovered lands.

Following three albums – "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" (2017), "Flowers of Evil" (2020), and "Liminal Animals" (2024) – rooted in more traditional song and production structures, "Neverland" marks a new chapter in the revered Oslo band's history.

"With 'Neverland' we embraced a more 'punk' spirit – more dreaming, less discipline – freer, quite simply", the band comments on the creative process behind the album.

Bursts of daybreak synths and whooshes of sound set the atmosphere, before the wolves start digging into the dynamics of ambient calm and anarchic mysticism. Dreamy and transportive textures develop into trippy percussive energies, and as the album unfolds, a lush and vibrant, and at times exotic space opens.

Apart from a few recurring distant voices and vocal chops, "Neverland" is a largely instrumental record, reminiscent of the mood and structure of that place where late '90s IDM sounds met the meandering structures of post-rock.

The ghost of premillennial sample culture surely haunts "Neverland", and some might even hear echoes from earlier acclaimed works like "Perdition City" (2000), or the "Silence" EPs (2001), or more recently "ATGCLVLSSCAP" (2016).

Still, "Neverland" sounds and feels like something else, something fresh in ULVER's continuous journey of perennial reinvention. Pop music from in-between worlds? A sonic hallucination? Or better: a collage of dreams. It's up to you.

HOM

"Neverland", the fourteenth studio album by ULVER is the sound of an escape. A journey into undiscovered lands.

Following three albums – "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" (2017), "Flowers of Evil" (2020), and "Liminal Animals" (2024) – rooted in more traditional song and production structures, "Neverland" marks a new chapter in the revered Oslo band's history.

"With 'Neverland' we embraced a more 'punk' spirit – more dreaming, less discipline – freer, quite simply", the band comments on the creative process behind the album.

Bursts of daybreak synths and whooshes of sound set the atmosphere, before the wolves start digging into the dynamics of ambient calm and anarchic mysticism. Dreamy and transportive textures develop into trippy percussive energies, and as the album unfolds, a lush and vibrant, and at times exotic space opens.

Apart from a few recurring distant voices and vocal chops, "Neverland" is a largely instrumental record, reminiscent of the mood and structure of that place where late '90s IDM sounds met the meandering structures of post-rock.

The ghost of premillennial sample culture surely haunts "Neverland", and some might even hear echoes from earlier acclaimed works like "Perdition City" (2000), or the "Silence" EPs (2001), or more recently "ATGCLVLSSCAP" (2016).

Still, "Neverland" sounds and feels like something else, something fresh in ULVER's continuous journey of perennial reinvention. Pop music from in-between worlds? A sonic hallucination? Or better: a collage of dreams. It's up to you.

HOM

Track 1. From Nattens Madrigal off Vargnatt 1993 demo.
Track 2. From A Memorable Fancy Plates 21-22 off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998.
Track 3. From Silence teaches you how to sing off Silence teaches you how to sing ep 2001. Mixed in Oslo and Bergen Dec. 2002
Track 4. Off Lyckantropen Themes 2002. Mixed in France Oct. 2002.
Track 5. From Lost in moments off Perdition City 2000. Mixed in Stovner, Oslo Sept. 2002.
Track 6. From The Voice of the Devil off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998. Bogdan recommends: Cut thinly one medium sized potato and fry in pan with olive oil. Once browned, sprinkle chopped basil and curry powder until smiling. Eat well.
Track 7. From Speak dead speaker off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Made in Wallpaper 2002
Track 8. From Not saved off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Produced and remixed at the Neotropic Media Center. UK 2002. Publ.: Big Orange Cat Music.
Track 9. Various off Perdition City 2000 with samples from renaissance string remake off Nattens Madrigal. Made in Adam's big house, Bruxelles, Belgium 2002. Publ.: BMI.
Track 10. Various off Perdition City 2000. Recorded at Friseur Julie, Austria Nov. 2002. Publ.: Touchmusic [mcps].
Track 11. Various off Perdition City 2000. Publ.: Mego
Track 12.Various off Bergtatt 1994. Mixed in Oslo and Trondheim Nov. 2002.
Track 13. Various off Nattens Madrigal 1996. Publ.: V/Vm Test.
Track 14. Various off Bergtatt 1994 and Nattens Madrigal 1996. Recorded and mixed in bedroom, Tokyo Oct. 2002. Publ.: Merzbow

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