Ulver (Norwegian for “wolves”) is a multi-disciplinary musical group founde… Read Full Bio ↴Ulver (Norwegian for “wolves”) is a multi-disciplinary musical group founded in Oslo, Norway and currently based in London, England. The band was formed by Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg in 1993, and the current line-up includes Rygg (vocal, programming), Jørn H. Sværen (misc.), Tore Ylwizaker (programming, piano) and Daniel O'Sullivan (guitar, piano, various). Since their first black metal releases in 1993, Ulver’s style has ever been changing by combining elements of experimental, electronic and ambient music, avant-garde, rock, trip-hop, and their own innovations.
Following the 1993 demo releases the demos Rehearsal 1993 and Vargnatt, which have a similar (albeit somewhat rawer) style, the band's first album, 1994's Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler, is a folk-themed black metal album. The title Bergtatt literally translates as “mountain-taken”, but is more commonly used to describe someone who is stricken with awe. In Norwegian folk tales the word refers to people who wander off into mountains, lured by trolls or other mythical beings. The narrative of the album’s lyrics follows a woman as she becomes so mountain-taken. The subtitle means “An Adventure in 5 Chapters”. Bergtatt features a melancholic, fully acoustical song “Een Stemme Locker” (“A Voice Beckons”).
1995's Kveldssanger, Ulver’s second album, contrasts with Bergtatt as it uses classical guitars, cello and chamber chants, and completely eschews the black-metal elements of Bergtatt, while still having a folk theme. Garm has since remarked that Kveldssanger was an “immature attempt at making a classical album.” He later clarified this by saying that the performance was immature, yet the content is strong when their youth is taken into account.
The third album, 1997's Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden, was a return to black metal, more ferocious than Bergtatt was, with only one mellow acoustic interlude in the first track. The album is intentionally under-produced, akin to Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, with buzzing guitars and rather muffled drums. There are rumours surrounding this album and its recording, the most famous being that the band recorded this album in a forest. The band has dismissed this as impossible, although When Bitter Spring Sleeps later would record their albums in a forest. Another and less-known rumor is that the band purposely recorded the album on a four-track cassette recorder and used the money that Century Media gave them for other things, for example Armani suits, haircuts, cocaine, beer, and/or a new car. When questioned about this, Garm said the band did have rather expensive tastes, though he has denied buying a new car, saying there wasn't enough money.
Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, released in 1998, was different from what Ulver, or even any other band, had made before. Tore Ylwizaker, a new composer and sound architect, paired up with Garm's expanding artistic visions and together they stepped over the boundaries of black metal aesthetics, creating a genre-defying work. In this album, the musicians blended electronics, industrial music elements, progressive metal and avant-garde rock, adding ambient passages. Lyrically, the album incorporates the entire text of the William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and features guest vocals. Despite confounding and perhaps alienating many fans of the band's first three albums, the album received widespread acclaim from critics within both the rock/metal and alternative music press. For instance, it was reviewed as 'album of the month' in several high-profile magazines such as Terrorizer, Metal Hammer, and Rock Hard. It also ranked very high at many year's best polls that same year.
Ulver's next two releases, the EP Metamorphosis and full-length album Perdition City: Music to an Interior Film, were even more experimental than the “Blake Album”, and a lot more pensive. The Metamorphosis disclaimer reads: “We are as unknown to you as we always were”. The band had moved further away from rock and metal and into a more ethereal style, much like that of Coil. The use of programmed sound and atmospheric style is dominant here, unlike the previous albums. Neo-classical composer and film scorer Craig Armstrong may have been an influence on Ulver as his use of electronics and hip-hop beats over strings and pianos is somewhat reminiscent of Ulver's later works.
The band followed up these two releases with two minimalist/ambient/glitch works, Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing. These works featured minimal melodies and often had subtle weird and unnatural noises throughout the song structures; the band also stretched out at length, with "Silence Teaches You How to Sing" being the band's longest composition to date at over twenty-four minutes in length. Due to their individual rarity, they were later released together as Teachings in Silence.
Having proved their proficiency at making atmospheric electronic music, Ulver were hired to make music for cinema films Lyckantropen (whose soundtrack was released as Lyckantropen Themes), Svidd neger, and Uno.
In 2003, Ulver began making more symphonic music. They released A Quick Fix of Melancholy, which kept the minimalist, sparse stylings of their previous albums, while adding a much more expressive, dramatic, symphonic element, with various string sounds (most likely sampled) and various operatic singing styles.
In July 2004, the band finished recording their next album, Blood Inside, which was released on June 6th, 2005. With Blood Inside, the band stepped away from the more minimal styles they had been experimenting with previously. Bringing back more traditional rock instruments like guitar and acoustic drums (since 1998 the band had used primarily digital drums and/or sampled beats), and combining them with real and synthetic classical instruments, brass horns and sound samples, the band created something they had never done before. Managing to fuse genres ranging from rock, classical, minimalism, electronica and vintage progressive rock music with Garm's broad vocal range, Ulver created an album that was far beyond anything anyone has heard in the avant-garde scene.
Ulver have recently collaborated with drone band Sunn O))) on a 15-minute track which appears on Sunn O)))'s WHITEbox box set, released in July of 2006. Additionally, Ulver had announced back in 2002 that they had been working on a string remake of Nattens madrigal, but Garm has stated on the message board of his alternative rock band, Head Control System, that the project "is in a state of total dormancy".
The band's seventh album, Shadows of the Sun, was released on October 1, 2007. Garm called it “our most personal record to date. Low key, dark, and tragic”. The album mostly consists of dark ambient music, with lush symphonic orchestrations backing up the band's mellow material.
The band's eighth album, Wars of the Roses, appeared after nearly four years of silence in April 2011. This time around the band was highly influenced by progressive rock music, also incorporating elements of ambient, post-rock, and spoken word. The same year, the band also released the live album The Norwegian National Opera, a nearly career-spanning performance with the opera cited in the title that featured renditions of material dating from the Blake album to Wars of the Roses.
The band's ninth album, Childhood's End: Lost & Found from the Age of Aquarius, followed in 2012. A long-delayed cover album of material from the '60s psychedelic rock era, the material Ulver chose to cover was mostly quite obscure (with Jefferson Airplane's "Today" being easily the best known track), but further revealed the band's diverse range of influences.
In 2013, Messe I.X-VI.X appeared. A companion piece of sorts to Shadows of the Sun, the music on Messe continues in the same reflective, brooding vein as that album, but contains more influence from post-rock and modern classical music. Most of the tracks were instrumental this time around, and the band stretched out in length, with the longest song exceeding eleven minutes. The same year also saw the release of the live album Live at Roadburn, consisting mainly of live renditions of Childhood's End material (one improvised piece, inspired by and dedicated to the German krautrock band Can, was included as an encore).
2014 found the band's second collaboration with Sunn O))) released, the full-length album Terrestrials. Despite the metal background of the two bands, the material here was mostly subdued drone/dark ambient with little metal influence. The same year also saw the release of the box set Trolsk sortmetall 1993-1997, serving as the definitive retrospective on the band's black metal phase by collecting their 1993 demo Vargnatt, their first three albums, and previously unreleased rehearsal versions of four songs from Nattens madrigal. All material was remastered for this set, with Nattens madrigal seeing substantially more dynamic range and its bass line being clearly audible for the first time.
2016 saw the release of the band's double album ATGCLVLSSCAP, its title an acronym consisting of the signs of the Zodiac. Ulver constructed the material on this album around a series of improvised soundscapes recorded live at twelve different shows, but the studio overdubs create a tightly structured set of compositions, some of which are rearrangements of earlier Ulver songs such as Nowhere/Catastrophe. The material here, which consists of twelve tracks spanning eighty minutes, covers a wide range of genres, including psychedelic rock, progressive rock, dark ambient, avant-garde, and post-rock. The end of 2016 also saw the release of the film soundtrack Riverhead.
2017 saw the release of the band's synth pop album The Assassination of Julius Caesar, which marked the band's first album in since 2011 that wasn't: partially recorded live (ATGCLVLSSCAP, Messe I.X-VI.X); a cover album (Childhood's End); a collaboration (Terrestrials and, to a lesser extent, Messe again); or a film soundtrack (Riverhead). Hailed as a return to form (as much as a band like Ulver can have), it received some of the band's most positive reviews in years. The end of the year saw the release of a companion EP, Sic transit gloria mundi (Thus Passes the Glory of the World).
Ulver have established themselves as some of the most remarkable musical chameleons of the twenty-first century, and continue to evolve with each new release.
1993 - Rehearsal 1993 (demo)
1993 - Vargnatt (demo) (Wolf Night)
1994 - Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (Spellbound - A Fairy Tale in 5 Chapters)
1995 - Kveldssanger (Twilight Hymns)
1997 - Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden (The Madrigal of the Night - Eight Hymns to the Wolf in Man)
1997 - The Trilogie: Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde (box set)
1998 - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1999 - Metamorphosis (EP)
2000 - Perdition City: Music to an Interior FIlm
2001 - Silence Teaches You How to Sing (EP)
2001 - Silencing the Singing (EP)
2002 - Teachings in Silence (compilation of the above two EPs)
2002 - Lyckantropen Themes (soundtrack)
2003 - 1993-2003: 1st Decade in the Machines (anthology)
2003 - Svidd neger (soundtrack)
2003 - A Quick Fix of Melancholy (EP)
2005 - Blood Inside
2007 - Shadows of the Sun
2011 - Wars of the Roses
2012 - The Norwegian National Opera (live album/video)
2012 - Childhood's End: Lost and Found from the Age of Aquarius
2013 - Oddities and Rarities #1 (anthology)
2013 - Live at Roadburn (live album)
2013 - Messe I.X-VI.X
2014 - Terrestrials (collaboration with Sunn O))))
2014 - Trolsk sortmetall 1993-1997 (Trollish Black Metal 1993-1997 or Bewitching Black Metal 1993-1997; box set)
2016 - ATGCLVLSSCAP
2016 - Riverhead (soundtrack)
2017 - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
2017 - Sic transit gloria mundi (Thus Passes the Glory of the World; EP)
2019 - Drone Activity
2020 - Flowers of Evil
Following the 1993 demo releases the demos Rehearsal 1993 and Vargnatt, which have a similar (albeit somewhat rawer) style, the band's first album, 1994's Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler, is a folk-themed black metal album. The title Bergtatt literally translates as “mountain-taken”, but is more commonly used to describe someone who is stricken with awe. In Norwegian folk tales the word refers to people who wander off into mountains, lured by trolls or other mythical beings. The narrative of the album’s lyrics follows a woman as she becomes so mountain-taken. The subtitle means “An Adventure in 5 Chapters”. Bergtatt features a melancholic, fully acoustical song “Een Stemme Locker” (“A Voice Beckons”).
1995's Kveldssanger, Ulver’s second album, contrasts with Bergtatt as it uses classical guitars, cello and chamber chants, and completely eschews the black-metal elements of Bergtatt, while still having a folk theme. Garm has since remarked that Kveldssanger was an “immature attempt at making a classical album.” He later clarified this by saying that the performance was immature, yet the content is strong when their youth is taken into account.
The third album, 1997's Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden, was a return to black metal, more ferocious than Bergtatt was, with only one mellow acoustic interlude in the first track. The album is intentionally under-produced, akin to Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, with buzzing guitars and rather muffled drums. There are rumours surrounding this album and its recording, the most famous being that the band recorded this album in a forest. The band has dismissed this as impossible, although When Bitter Spring Sleeps later would record their albums in a forest. Another and less-known rumor is that the band purposely recorded the album on a four-track cassette recorder and used the money that Century Media gave them for other things, for example Armani suits, haircuts, cocaine, beer, and/or a new car. When questioned about this, Garm said the band did have rather expensive tastes, though he has denied buying a new car, saying there wasn't enough money.
Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, released in 1998, was different from what Ulver, or even any other band, had made before. Tore Ylwizaker, a new composer and sound architect, paired up with Garm's expanding artistic visions and together they stepped over the boundaries of black metal aesthetics, creating a genre-defying work. In this album, the musicians blended electronics, industrial music elements, progressive metal and avant-garde rock, adding ambient passages. Lyrically, the album incorporates the entire text of the William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and features guest vocals. Despite confounding and perhaps alienating many fans of the band's first three albums, the album received widespread acclaim from critics within both the rock/metal and alternative music press. For instance, it was reviewed as 'album of the month' in several high-profile magazines such as Terrorizer, Metal Hammer, and Rock Hard. It also ranked very high at many year's best polls that same year.
Ulver's next two releases, the EP Metamorphosis and full-length album Perdition City: Music to an Interior Film, were even more experimental than the “Blake Album”, and a lot more pensive. The Metamorphosis disclaimer reads: “We are as unknown to you as we always were”. The band had moved further away from rock and metal and into a more ethereal style, much like that of Coil. The use of programmed sound and atmospheric style is dominant here, unlike the previous albums. Neo-classical composer and film scorer Craig Armstrong may have been an influence on Ulver as his use of electronics and hip-hop beats over strings and pianos is somewhat reminiscent of Ulver's later works.
The band followed up these two releases with two minimalist/ambient/glitch works, Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing. These works featured minimal melodies and often had subtle weird and unnatural noises throughout the song structures; the band also stretched out at length, with "Silence Teaches You How to Sing" being the band's longest composition to date at over twenty-four minutes in length. Due to their individual rarity, they were later released together as Teachings in Silence.
Having proved their proficiency at making atmospheric electronic music, Ulver were hired to make music for cinema films Lyckantropen (whose soundtrack was released as Lyckantropen Themes), Svidd neger, and Uno.
In 2003, Ulver began making more symphonic music. They released A Quick Fix of Melancholy, which kept the minimalist, sparse stylings of their previous albums, while adding a much more expressive, dramatic, symphonic element, with various string sounds (most likely sampled) and various operatic singing styles.
In July 2004, the band finished recording their next album, Blood Inside, which was released on June 6th, 2005. With Blood Inside, the band stepped away from the more minimal styles they had been experimenting with previously. Bringing back more traditional rock instruments like guitar and acoustic drums (since 1998 the band had used primarily digital drums and/or sampled beats), and combining them with real and synthetic classical instruments, brass horns and sound samples, the band created something they had never done before. Managing to fuse genres ranging from rock, classical, minimalism, electronica and vintage progressive rock music with Garm's broad vocal range, Ulver created an album that was far beyond anything anyone has heard in the avant-garde scene.
Ulver have recently collaborated with drone band Sunn O))) on a 15-minute track which appears on Sunn O)))'s WHITEbox box set, released in July of 2006. Additionally, Ulver had announced back in 2002 that they had been working on a string remake of Nattens madrigal, but Garm has stated on the message board of his alternative rock band, Head Control System, that the project "is in a state of total dormancy".
The band's seventh album, Shadows of the Sun, was released on October 1, 2007. Garm called it “our most personal record to date. Low key, dark, and tragic”. The album mostly consists of dark ambient music, with lush symphonic orchestrations backing up the band's mellow material.
The band's eighth album, Wars of the Roses, appeared after nearly four years of silence in April 2011. This time around the band was highly influenced by progressive rock music, also incorporating elements of ambient, post-rock, and spoken word. The same year, the band also released the live album The Norwegian National Opera, a nearly career-spanning performance with the opera cited in the title that featured renditions of material dating from the Blake album to Wars of the Roses.
The band's ninth album, Childhood's End: Lost & Found from the Age of Aquarius, followed in 2012. A long-delayed cover album of material from the '60s psychedelic rock era, the material Ulver chose to cover was mostly quite obscure (with Jefferson Airplane's "Today" being easily the best known track), but further revealed the band's diverse range of influences.
In 2013, Messe I.X-VI.X appeared. A companion piece of sorts to Shadows of the Sun, the music on Messe continues in the same reflective, brooding vein as that album, but contains more influence from post-rock and modern classical music. Most of the tracks were instrumental this time around, and the band stretched out in length, with the longest song exceeding eleven minutes. The same year also saw the release of the live album Live at Roadburn, consisting mainly of live renditions of Childhood's End material (one improvised piece, inspired by and dedicated to the German krautrock band Can, was included as an encore).
2014 found the band's second collaboration with Sunn O))) released, the full-length album Terrestrials. Despite the metal background of the two bands, the material here was mostly subdued drone/dark ambient with little metal influence. The same year also saw the release of the box set Trolsk sortmetall 1993-1997, serving as the definitive retrospective on the band's black metal phase by collecting their 1993 demo Vargnatt, their first three albums, and previously unreleased rehearsal versions of four songs from Nattens madrigal. All material was remastered for this set, with Nattens madrigal seeing substantially more dynamic range and its bass line being clearly audible for the first time.
2016 saw the release of the band's double album ATGCLVLSSCAP, its title an acronym consisting of the signs of the Zodiac. Ulver constructed the material on this album around a series of improvised soundscapes recorded live at twelve different shows, but the studio overdubs create a tightly structured set of compositions, some of which are rearrangements of earlier Ulver songs such as Nowhere/Catastrophe. The material here, which consists of twelve tracks spanning eighty minutes, covers a wide range of genres, including psychedelic rock, progressive rock, dark ambient, avant-garde, and post-rock. The end of 2016 also saw the release of the film soundtrack Riverhead.
2017 saw the release of the band's synth pop album The Assassination of Julius Caesar, which marked the band's first album in since 2011 that wasn't: partially recorded live (ATGCLVLSSCAP, Messe I.X-VI.X); a cover album (Childhood's End); a collaboration (Terrestrials and, to a lesser extent, Messe again); or a film soundtrack (Riverhead). Hailed as a return to form (as much as a band like Ulver can have), it received some of the band's most positive reviews in years. The end of the year saw the release of a companion EP, Sic transit gloria mundi (Thus Passes the Glory of the World).
Ulver have established themselves as some of the most remarkable musical chameleons of the twenty-first century, and continue to evolve with each new release.
1993 - Rehearsal 1993 (demo)
1993 - Vargnatt (demo) (Wolf Night)
1994 - Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (Spellbound - A Fairy Tale in 5 Chapters)
1995 - Kveldssanger (Twilight Hymns)
1997 - Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden (The Madrigal of the Night - Eight Hymns to the Wolf in Man)
1997 - The Trilogie: Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde (box set)
1998 - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1999 - Metamorphosis (EP)
2000 - Perdition City: Music to an Interior FIlm
2001 - Silence Teaches You How to Sing (EP)
2001 - Silencing the Singing (EP)
2002 - Teachings in Silence (compilation of the above two EPs)
2002 - Lyckantropen Themes (soundtrack)
2003 - 1993-2003: 1st Decade in the Machines (anthology)
2003 - Svidd neger (soundtrack)
2003 - A Quick Fix of Melancholy (EP)
2005 - Blood Inside
2007 - Shadows of the Sun
2011 - Wars of the Roses
2012 - The Norwegian National Opera (live album/video)
2012 - Childhood's End: Lost and Found from the Age of Aquarius
2013 - Oddities and Rarities #1 (anthology)
2013 - Live at Roadburn (live album)
2013 - Messe I.X-VI.X
2014 - Terrestrials (collaboration with Sunn O))))
2014 - Trolsk sortmetall 1993-1997 (Trollish Black Metal 1993-1997 or Bewitching Black Metal 1993-1997; box set)
2016 - ATGCLVLSSCAP
2016 - Riverhead (soundtrack)
2017 - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
2017 - Sic transit gloria mundi (Thus Passes the Glory of the World; EP)
2019 - Drone Activity
2020 - Flowers of Evil
In Memoriam
Ulver Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'In Memoriam' by these artists:
Ampere from under your monument, the words rang out: "je voulais…
Aqme Si claires ces images si brutes qu'elles nous g?nent Je vois…
Arcana The memory of a long life The aching of a loved…
Bakasura So lost Trapped inside this delusion Unable to discern fanta…
Bobby Darin He's a ruthless opportunist …
Bruno Coulais Kyrie eleison (Christe eleison) Kyrie Christe eleison (Requi…
C-Lekktor There wasn't time This saturation blurs my soul Your silent …
Chris DeMakes Dearly departed I am gathered here today This is hello,…
Comboio Calibre O vazio, o silêncio Pouco tempo muitas lutas A morte…
EoniA 3 AM Roused from sleep Mournful news is what you bring I can…
Eutenia Meus medos levados pela escuridão Desejos concretos em meu c…
Everybody Else Took a sip from a bottle of orange soda Suddenly you…
Evile When the darkness takes from me Cruel hands are scorned Ho…
Excuse Me Moses Everything you mean to me is from here to eternity close…
Globus Fortes et liber In infinitum Caeli enarrant Gloriam amor …
Grand Harvest Ad gloriam tuam – O Magne invicte O Messoris Grandis picte O…
Hackett Steve For someone else the blues and greens The dreaming spires th…
Haken Take a step put one foot in the grave Catch a…
HammerFall [Instrumental]…
Head With Wings Cascade over the place Where her body remains Flowers lay to…
KnEvil Dizer adeus Não é tão fácil Toda a dor Corrói por de…
Konflikt Roky plynú jak piesku čas Život sa míňa v každom z…
Les Choristes Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Requiem aeternam Dona eis d…
Les Petits Chanteurs Kyrie eleison (Christe eleison) Kyrie Christe eleison (Requi…
Magic Pie Old man you know the path to go No one can…
Morrigan Now on trial, and Satan smile And now you will burn Armage…
My Last Suicide My Last Suicide In Memoriam lyrics was added to the…
Negative Like seasons change their face Rain like the tears, wind's g…
Noe Venable When she takes out Her trusty switchblade Maddy can bring En…
Obscurcis Romancia Dans un vague soupir, je me blottis Dans cette ritournelle d…
Oh Hellos The Well, it's a long way out to reach the sea But…
Peter La Grand And so the story ends On broken promises We pay our la…
Petits chanteurs de Saint Marc Kyrie eleison (Christe eleison) Kyrie Christe eleison (Requ…
Raising Conviction We've been known to call the sun And we came from…
Rob Cantor You were such an inspiration And your legacy will carry…
Roger King For someone else the blues and greens The dreaming spires th…
Roger King; Siedlaczek Choir; Steve Hackett For someone else the blues and greens The dreaming spires t…
Scarpast Little by little, I kill myself With insane thoughts of…
Schaliach [Instrumental] [Music: Ole Borud] [This song is dedicated t…
Schaliah [instrumental] [Music: Ole Borud] [This song is dedicate…
Sentenced In the dark... in death Eyes can't see... I cannot feel No…
Sentenced (North From Here / Shadows Of The Past CD2) In the dark... in death Eyes can't see... I cannot feel No…
Siedlaczek Choir For someone else the blues and greens The dreaming spires t…
Soundtrack - Les Choristes Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Requiem aeternam Dona eis domi…
Steve Hackett For someone else the blues and greens The dreaming spires th…
sToa Be near me when my light is low. When the blood…
Subtlety I kneel by the water It's cold I see my reflection All that…
Sunless Sky It's time we say goodbye To this long, dark time Say goodbye…
The Loveless I'm still here Still broken as ever What a horrid veil Th…
The Oh Hello's Well, it's a long way out to reach the sea But…
Threnody Extrasensory signs Not much time left Deilitation of menta…
Zaklonišče Prepeva Baš se rado prisetim, Tad još nisam pio alkohol (k'o fol). N…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Ulver:
1969 In the year of the Lord The word became flesh But our…
A Memorable Fancy [plates 12-13] The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me…
A Song Of Liberty 1. The Eternal Female groan'd! it was heard over all…
A Song of Liberty, Plates 25-27 1. The eternal female groan'd! It was heard all over…
All the Love We fear the things We do not understand The powers Of go…
Angelus Novus An army charges upon the land To the sound of retreat This…
Another Brick In The Wall Daddy′s flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory Snapsho…
Bergtatt-Ind i Fjeldkamrene Pigen bad for sig Det maatte ey hende hiælpe Oc med det…
Blinded By Blood You are From the heart Of it all The light…
Braablick blev hun vaer Langveysfra blifver hun iagttagen Øine, mange Graablick Mede…
Capitel I: I Troldskog faren vild De entede Tøsens Hiemkomst Hun vaer i mørck Skog faren vild…
Capitel II Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som …
Capitel II : Soelen Gaaer Bag Aase Need Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som…
Capitel II: Soelen gaaer bag Aase ned Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som …
Capitel II: Soelen gaaer bag Aase need Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som…
Capitel III %3A Graablick Blev Hun Vaer Langveysfra blifver hun iagttagen Øine, mange Graablick Mede…
Capitel III : Graablick Blev Hun Vaer Langveysfra blifver hun iagttagen Øine, mange Graablick Me…
Capitel IV Hun vaagner paa Skyggefulde Stier I Skogens dybe grønne Kamm…
Capitel IV: Een Stemme locker Hun vaagner paa Skyggefulde Stier I Skogens dybe grønne Kam…
Capitel V Pigen bad for sig Det maatte ey hende hiælpe Oc med det…
Christmas A god is born and others die. What is Has neither…
Coming Home I have been thinking About my life lately These old streets…
Darling Didn't We Kill You? [Instrumental]…
Dead City Centres You're taking a ride to the underworld Where death lurks in…
Dressed In Black Is the light of the light Monumental Or something? Whit…
Een Stemme locker Hun vaagner paa Skyggefulde Stier I Skogens dybe grønne Kamm…
England Mount the high horse And dogs will follow The scent of inno…
Eos The sun is far away It goes in circles Someone dies Someo…
February MMX The old man sings In the face of fear The circular mantr…
For The Love Of God Love god harder From behind the red Flames of the…
Funebrae There is a circle Around the cross A flight of steps Into…
Gnosis Science, the new aristocracy Progress, the world is on the m…
Graablick Blew Hun Vaer Langveysfra blifver hun iagttagen Øine, mange Graablick Mede…
Hymn I: Of Wolf and Fear Snacket blandt Folck vaer til Bestandighed Om Fuldmaanens Ve…
I De entede Tøsens Hiemkomst Hun vaer i mørck Skog faren vild …
ii [plates 12-13] The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me…
III Langveysfra blifver hun iagttagen Øine, mange Graablick Mede…
In The Red Out of nature Something bloody A body Put to life…
Island How did we end So far out Past praying And past recall …
It Is Not Sound For the record No one will understand What it is…
iv Hun vaagner paa Skyggefulde Stier I Skogens dybe grønne Kamm…
Kapitel I: I Troldskog Faren Vild (plates 25-27) 1. The eternal female groan'd! It was heard a…
Kledt i nattens farger Kan du mer enn ditt Fader Vår Kaster du ingen skygge Ja,…
Kveldssang [Instrumental]…
Let the Children Go We hold each other In the dead of night And the end…
Like Music I want you To tell me Who you are In your dreams Who…
Little Blue Bird Little bird in blue worlds Spinning things with wings Beatin…
Lost in Moments What's the meaning of this voyage? To talk in a dream So…
Nemoralia A festival of torches Joins the light of the moon Shining i…
Norwegian Gothic This is a history Of pride and romance Such an eerie fan…
Nowhere You fly, or rather float, drift Through an enormous dark roo…
Of Wolf and Fear ""Snacket blandt Folck vaer til Bestandighed Om Fuldmaanens …
Of Wolf and Hatred ""O vandringsmand i een forbandet nat troe ey at hans…
Of Wolf And The Devil ""Ulvens billeder hafver eengang til hex & diefvels stolthed…
Of Wolves & Vibrancy [Instrumental]…
Operator Call the police Radio paranoia All is over Under the…
Operatör Operator Call the police Radio paranoia All is over Under …
Ord Ikke mÃ¥ den love Ã¥ vandre I mørket, Som ikke…
Plate 11 The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or…
Plate 14 The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in…
Plate 3 As a new heaven is begun, and it is now…
Plates 16-17 The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence…
Plates 21-22 I have always found that Angels have the vanity to…
Plates 5-6 Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak…
Porn Piece of The Scars of Cold Kisses I remember walking, one side of town to the other Alone…
Proverbs of Hell In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Driv…
Providence We drink and drink A subtle poison More in sorrow Than …
Rolling Stone I have seen the world You believe in Black ships with…
September IV The family is gathering In silent prayer Before the bed …
Shadows of the Sun The shadows Shadows of the dead In the silence Silence..…
So Falls the World Legends fail And houses fall In great shame In elliptical r…
Soelen Gaaer Bag Aase Need Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som…
Solitude My name it means nothing My fortune is less My future is…
Son of Man Oh Father Heavenly Father Forgive Me For I Have Sinned Again…
Southern Gothic I want to tell you something About the grace of faded…
Stone Angels Angels go - we merely stray, image of a wandering deity, s…
Svelen Gaaer Bag Aase Need Sagte vender hun Hovedet halfft Lyddende fjærnt til Ord som …
Synen Der du stod som ung Og rundt deg stønning tung Var skyggens…
The Argument Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air; Hungr…
The Truth It is the two They turn the pages Of the…
The Voice of the Devil Plate 4 [plate 4] all bibles or sacred codes have been the causes…
Transverberation I've been staggering Ever since the shot in Rome On Wednesd…
Ulvsblakk Har do synen Kan do se at sola Ulvsblakk Har…
Utreise I blinde går jeg Redd meg, ikke hjem La natten føre meg B…
v Pigen bad for sig Det maatte ey hende hiælpe Oc med det…
Vargnatt Vokt dere Menneske og dyr For vargene jager i natt Bukrygge…
vi Uden Sorrig for det, som svandtHan drager paa nye & farlig…
Vigil For those Who used to be And now are In the dark Light a…
Vowels Loveless vessels We vow Solo love We see Love solve loss…
We Are the Dead Ghosts presence, Ghost music in the radio at night, When yo…
What Happened Out of nothing I understand Who I am I think I have been …
What Happened? Out of nothing I understand Who I am I think I have be…
Wolf %26 Fear ""Snacket blandt Folck vaer til Bestandighed Om Fuldmaanens …
Wolf & Destiny Nu har han ey meer sin Drackt Saa rèd som Viin…
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Wolf & Hatred O Vandringsmand i een forbandet Nat Troe ey at hans Had…
Wolf & Man Da Trolddomen bleff h¦ved - & need Paa Jorden han sv¦ved:…
Wolf & Passion Uden Sorrig for det, som svandt Han drager paa nye &…
Wolf & The Devil Ulvens Billeder hafver eengang Til Hex & Diefvels Stolthed …
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Your Call Who is here To hold your hand In the dark…
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An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, I will? ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him directly into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, chain'd by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.
Bad Mr Frosty
My favorite Ulver song from their entire catalog of music.
MondoMama
Almost Agreed, Except For Ostenfor Sol Og Vestenfor Mane
Gr immh
@Gabez Polanski Great song example!
N. Afonso
Mine too. 🤘
Gabez Polanski
what about the future sound of music?
darksunwithin
The way this song grows on you culminates in the realization that you are witness to one of the most badass vocal perfomances laid to tape on one of the coolest and orgasmic tracks ever.
SleeperNO
A true masterpiece of art.
N. Afonso
Totally amazing music, vocals and lyrics. Garm's way of singing in those years were insanely stunning.
shawn6669
Agree with Jakk Newman. This song never fails to blow me away.
Tommy Vercetti
The lyricist of this entire album is legendary! Shame he died so long ago.