Ulver's Themes vs. Arcturus' Sham Mirrors

[JayKeeley]

Pick.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Ulver, obviously.

 

[NAD]

both are pretty great and i'm not sure i could choose between the two.

however, whereas sham mirrors is arcturus' finest offering, william blake isn't even top 5 ulver material.

 

[Demonspell]

I'm going to have to agree with Nad here, Themes is undoubtedly the more ambitious and experimental of the two, but also over-reaching and self-indulgent (even for Garm) at times, whereas TSM is far more focused and contains some of Garm & Sverd's best performances.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

You mean that its the BEST uLVer material
Anyway the albums cant be compared, totally different music. Also Arcturus still like metal hah..
I admire these 2 albums almost equally, but i like Sham Mirrors the most.

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

Arcturus

I think the Blake Album is Ulver's weakest album...

 

[J.]

both lick fag shit

 

[MajestikMøøse]

at the point, looking that the scores, I feel owned.

 

[NAD]

solidarity, brother!

the first track on the second disc wins the big prize.

*votes*

 

[MajestikMøøse]

solidarity, brother!

the first track on the second disc wins the big prize.

*votes*

Absolutely

BUT NOWWW FROM BETWEEEENNN THE BLACK AND WHITE SPIDEERRRRSSS A CLOUDDD AND FIRE BURRST AND ROLLLEDDD THRRRROOUGH THE DEEEEPPPP

 

[NAD]

ohhhhhhhhhh goat that part is seriously amazing. highlight of the album.

you know what, i can't even rank william blake out of their top five. mostly because ulver's stuff falls into two categories: great and fucking amazing. even the "bad" stuff like the metamorphosis ep is pretty awesome.

 

[Dev]

Arcturus.

 

[Ellestin]

I like half of "Themes..." and can tolerate the rest, at least more than what they've become afterwards.
"The Sham Mirrors" is awfully pompous but righteously so, so I picked it.

 

[Russell]

but also over-reaching and self-indulgent (even for Garm)

Just like Mr Blake himself

 

[J.]

so i'm the ony one who found both of these albums to be total crap and easily among (if not the) bands' worst?

*insert Royal Pinkage banner*

 

[Captain Beard]

We're all peter puffers here, mate.

 

[J.]

Yes, I know. I miss the days when RC was full of metal listeners.

 

[Nico]

J. check out Zarathustra. Yousendit coming.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

one day the yousendit police are going to catch us and KILL US ALL

 

[Nico]

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