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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #35 on: August 05, 2010, 09:29:44 PM »
btw, here is a GREAT interview with the guys from November 09. Do read it! (if you haven't already)

https://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=127

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KGR: Yeah, it's like when there are no vocals going on, what am I supposed to do?
SRB: Go check your email on the laptop.
KGR: Yeah, I got a couple of email interviews done during the set yesterday. That's the real challenge, you know, how much office work I can squeeze in between my lines.
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #36 on: August 05, 2010, 09:32:48 PM »
btw, here is a GREAT interview with the guys from November 09. Do read it! (if you haven't already)

https://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=127

Love this part:

KGR: Yeah, it's like when there are no vocals going on, what am I supposed to do?
SRB: Go check your email on the laptop.
KGR: Yeah, I got a couple of email interviews done during the set yesterday. That's the real challenge, you know, how much office work I can squeeze in between my lines.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #37 on: August 06, 2010, 01:26:13 PM »
Listened to the Blake album for the first time in ages today, forgot how damn good it is!

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #38 on: August 06, 2010, 02:49:33 PM »
A guy at my work was wearing an Ulver shirt from when he saw them live, turns out he games and likes awesome music. He said how Ulver had two drumkits on stage which is pretty crazy.

The Future Sound of Music is still by far my favourite song by them :metal

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #39 on: August 06, 2010, 03:26:38 PM »
Fuck. Blood Inside is so perfect. I got it only yesterday and I've listened to it eight or nine times so far.

I got Svidd Neger as well and it's just as amazing as everything else they've done. I just need Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden, I have everything else (not including all their EPs).

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #40 on: August 06, 2010, 03:36:11 PM »
I'm not really keen on their two black metal albums, but everything else they've done is really top-notch. You definitely need to get William Blake, such an excellent and experimental album. You also need A Quick Fix of Melancholy.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #41 on: August 06, 2010, 03:45:15 PM »
I got A Quick Fix, love it :tup they haven't made anything I haven't loved - I even like Bergatt a lot, and I'm not a fan of black metal (except for some Emperor and Agalloch, if you can count them). But yes, I plan to get William Blake soon.

Okay, I think I read somewhere that it was based off a Bach composition, but am I the only one that hears Dancing Mad (the final boss theme for Kefka in Final Fantasy VI) during that last 1:30 for Is It Not Sound?

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #42 on: August 06, 2010, 06:33:11 PM »
Okay, I think I read somewhere that it was based off a Bach composition, but am I the only one that hears Dancing Mad (the final boss theme for Kefka in Final Fantasy VI) during that last 1:30 for Is It Not Sound?
I don't know, because I don't play video games.  But it is based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

Listening to Blood Inside right now, as a matter of fact.
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #43 on: August 06, 2010, 06:38:22 PM »
I just read Dancing Mad draws from Bach's Preludes and Fugues, so yeah, that's where the similarity comes from :lol

Edit: Apparently the third part of the song I mentioned is Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, so yeah, it's pretty much the same. And I thought I was hearing things. Interesting.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #44 on: August 11, 2010, 06:22:20 AM »
Got the Metamorphosis EP, it's great. Am I the only person who likes Of Wolves And Vibrancy? :lol

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #45 on: August 11, 2010, 06:31:28 AM »
Superb EP, and hell naw, that song in my Ulver top 20 easily. Really sweet vibe to it 

check this out, great artistic video set to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4G5zxgY-w
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #46 on: August 11, 2010, 06:43:48 AM »
That was pretty cool! :lol

I can't stop listening to Blood Inside... I've had it for a week and I think I consider it one of my favorite albums of all time.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #47 on: August 11, 2010, 06:45:52 AM »
That was pretty cool! :lol

I can't stop listening to Blood Inside... I've had it for a week and I think I consider it one of my favorite albums of all time.
Yep. there is some sort of dark genius to it. Very layered and textual. Honestly, every-time I put it on, I find something new to go 'wow' at. I love albums like that.  :heart
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #48 on: August 11, 2010, 06:51:58 AM »
That acoustic part that comes out of nowhere in Of Wolf And Fear is one of the coolest things ever.

Okay, if I think I don't like black metal but I somehow like Nattens madrigal does that mean I like black metal? :lol
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #49 on: August 11, 2010, 07:26:16 AM »
That acoustic part that comes out of nowhere in Of Wolf And Fear is one of the coolest things ever.

Okay, if I think I don't like black metal but I somehow like Nattens madrigal does that mean I like black metal? :lol
Yes, yes it does  :lol If you do want to check out more BM, I'd recommend Wolves In The Throne Room. Very cool stuff

Also, I found a post addressed you a while back
How you are not already into Ulver is beyond me. They are so up your alley that they have reached the end and have already climbed over the wall.

Mind-reading abilities  :coolio
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #50 on: August 11, 2010, 07:53:59 AM »
Haha, yes! :tup I am forever indebted to you as they are one of my favorite bands now.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #51 on: August 12, 2010, 06:38:25 AM »
Any news on the next Ulver-album?  :P

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #52 on: August 12, 2010, 07:37:49 AM »
I haven't heard anything yet I'm afraid. They are touring until the 16th of August according to last.fm, so you'd assume after that, they will hit the studio and we should have an album by late 2010...hopefully  :biggrin:
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #53 on: August 12, 2010, 07:55:10 AM »
Wonder which direction they're taking this time.

Also, I have to say that the last two and a half minutes of What Happened? are nothing short of mindblowing. The strings are out of this world.
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #54 on: August 12, 2010, 04:18:55 PM »
Next album will be post-ironic blackened progressive-trip-hop bluesy polkacore

I used to use that genre name as a joke but that seems entirely like something they'd do.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #56 on: August 12, 2010, 08:09:13 PM »
:clap:  get them to 10,000,000  :biggrin:
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #57 on: August 12, 2010, 09:39:56 PM »
Ulver are like good fruits: it's good stuff! :tup Anyway, I only own Perdition City as of now but I'm considering to get Swallow of the Sun next.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #58 on: August 12, 2010, 10:01:38 PM »
I have 12 albums/EPs and every single one of them is amazing, so you have fun with that. :tup

Blood Inside remains my favorite, I've given it 25 listens in the past week.

William Blake is proving to be their least accessible album for me, even more so than the black metal trilogie, but I still love it.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #59 on: August 17, 2010, 04:58:38 PM »
Good God Perdition City is wonderful. But creepy, in a way.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #60 on: August 17, 2010, 07:23:26 PM »
Listening to Perdition City right now for the first time!

This post leads me to assume you're just getting into them? If so, congratulations, and welcome to the cool club :tup Get Blood Inside, Shadows of the Sun and Svidd Neger.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #61 on: August 18, 2010, 10:38:44 AM »
Yeah I've only got Perdition City at the minute, but Blood Inside seems like the next logical step.

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #62 on: August 18, 2010, 07:11:53 PM »
Vigil is certainly one of my favorite songs ever...

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #63 on: September 02, 2010, 01:19:18 AM »
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #64 on: September 02, 2010, 01:20:34 AM »
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #65 on: September 02, 2010, 02:47:50 AM »
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #66 on: September 02, 2010, 04:46:14 AM »
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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #67 on: September 04, 2010, 04:12:58 PM »
So, the Metamorphosis EP is pretty darn amazing.
Too bad it's pretty short though, so many great ideas on it, and "Of Wolves and Vibrancy" is just pure eargasm, probably my favorite Ulver-song.
Overall i think the sound is different from Perdition City (considering it was just a year between the releases), but Ulver manages (as always) to make fantastic music without staying within certain limits.

I also listened to Kveldssanger for the first time, really liking it a lot.
I'm familiar with Bergtatt since earlier, really liking it, but i gotta say that the difference is quite interesting between album nr1 and album nr2 in the discography.
Even though Bergtatt has several influences/patches of folk-music, Kveldssanger has completely transcended into neo-folk.
Love it.  :)
I also found it disappointing being swedish and not understanding as much norweigan as i probably should, but i guess i can work on that.  :D

My biggest regret in life right now, is missing the opportunity to see Ulver live.
I had heard a lot about them and i knew they were coming to the city i live in, but i mixed up february/march (thinking it was in march but was mistaken), so when i listened to Perdition City and got blown away, i had already missed them with like 2 days. :/
Hopefully i can repair that by seeing them the next time they come here, hopefully they will... some day.

 

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #68 on: September 04, 2010, 04:15:45 PM »
I've just listened properly to Blood Inside, and I enjoyed it a lot.

But I think Perdition City is 'the one.'

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Re: Ulver-appreciation thread
« Reply #69 on: September 04, 2010, 04:21:29 PM »
Good man Zantera, Metamorphosis EP is awesome. So is A Quick Fix of Melancholy. So is...

Fuck it everything they've done has been awesome. Except that first black metal EP.