Someone get me into ULVER NOW!!!!

Their best album depends what you're looking for. The best one in my opinion is Perdition City, but that one is in no way metal at all, but instead mellow trip-hop.
 
They're all pretty good besides nattens madrigal. Even that one is good musically, it's just raw beyond belief. You'd like kveldssanger or bergtat. (I'm not sure about the spelling on those two)
 
well:

Bergtatt= Epic folk-black metal (Garm was 16!) Great album
Kveldsanger= all acoustic folk music. Really dark with no drums and some cello work, excellent
Nattens Madrigal= ear-scrapingly raw Bm done on a four track. Excellent songs if you can stnd the production
Marriage of Heaven and Hell= Epic 2 CD concept album putting William Blakes classic poem to music. Ranges from trip-hop to classical to spoken word to progressive metal to industrial to poetry recitation so smoothly you hardly know the time has passed...a masterpiece
Perdition City- Mellow trip hop with piano, some guitars, a saxophone. Supposed to represent urban alienation and romance.
Silenece makes you sing= EP of a jam session based around themes from perdition city...pretty loosely organized and my least favorite release by Ulver
Silencing the Singing- Newest EP. I have yet to hear it...
 
Silencing is a bit more organized that silence. It's three tracks spanning 30 minutes instead of the one 25 minute one. The songs are more focused, but very minimalistic.
 
If you're into acoustic stuff, I would go with kveldssanger...

To me, the album is a real masterpiece...
Hunting, frightening, disturbing, melodic...hummm perfect!

Here a quick review I find from http://www.chedsey.com ...hope it helps.

Worlds removed from their most recent (and almost intolerable) black metal nightmare Nattens Madrigal, its predecessor Kveldssanger (ie. Evening Songs) conspicuously sidestepped the cacophonous in-the-bathroom production and feral hiss characteristic of many blasting Norse bands for a passionately relayed Norwegian folk excursion, performed entirely on acoustic instruments. Vocals tend towards an obscure hymnal, almost Gregorian warble, though under-utilized, they're richly textured and melodiously delivered, complemented by an amalgamation of layered guitars, flutes, and cellos. There are literally zero modern equivalents to this pensive mood-setting oddity as rarely are such blatantly classical aspirations heard within the blackened subgenre. A somber and skillfully executed alternative to the norm; the entire affair just reeks of class. See kids, thoughtful dark art needn't always be delivered with a sledgehammer to the skull.
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If you own newer ULVER-material, and I'm sorry if you do, you should check out the true ULVER, black and satanic at heart.
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Any reviewer that makes a comment such as that is completely discredited as a worthy source.
 
Come to think of it, his whole review discredits him entirely.

EDIT: these two posts make no sense now, but if you saw the original review that was posted, talking about how great it is because its the epitome of satatnic, you'd know what i meant.
 
I'd really start from the beginning.
Bergtatt->>>Silencing the Singing.

There aren't many things that are like listening to Bergtatt on a cold winter dusk while you're walking through a lonely wood and it' snowing.

*shiver* so great !

I am with Ulver from the beginning and love every album. Even if you have problems with their style change, I recommend that you try to look past that and just enjoy the beautiful music.
 
anybody know where to buy "silence teaches how to sing"?

i think it's out of print :cry:

anybody know any news about the supposed album containing the two ep's (silences)... it has been pushed back? i don't read any news nor remember the site was supposed to sell that. :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
just out of curiousity, how is any ulver the "epitome of satan"? i haven't heard all of bergtatt but from what i've heard it wasn't really all grim and tr00. where do people get this idea that ulver was a black metal band? is there something in the lyrics i'm not catching? or is it that insecure retards who need to appear evil to feel good about themselves don't even realize that nattens madrigal was meant to be a tribute to norwegian black metal?
 
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