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Sure, Perdition City and are Kveldssanger worthy checking out, the only ones that has Glamour and elegance, the rest seems like the kids enjoys them more, maybe is the growling or the noise...
 
I will recommend getting Perdition City, then Blake's, then Kveld.... and then the suicide mission towards the rest.
 
I guess the experimental "elegant + growling + noise/heavy" is not a fusion i find amusing...but for that matter this "artistic" band went on Subjective..
 

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Points: 1655 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2006 at 23:34
this was the appreciation of music thread not the suicide thread  Cool
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I'm not one to exaggerate, but I can't find a single flaw in Blood Inside.
 
It's astonishingly solid work, and definitely one my all time favorites.
 
There ain't no band that carries progressivity into the new century as strongly and innovatively as Ulver.
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I was surprised by their Kveldssanger album, as I'm a fan of folk music. I tried to tell some other prog folk fans about this album, as they might not search folk from discographies of this kind of band. I don't think it excatly a total groundbreaking masterpiece, but moody and good release still!

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Originally posted by RomanticWarrior RomanticWarrior wrote:

Sure, Perdition City and are Kveldssanger worthy checking out, the only ones that has Glamour and elegance, the rest seems like the kids enjoys them more, maybe is the growling or the noise...
 
I will recommend getting Perdition City, then Blake's, then Kveld.... and then the suicide mission towards the rest.
 
I guess the experimental "elegant + growling + noise/heavy" is not a fusion i find amusing...but for that matter this "artistic" band went on Subjective..
 

Stay classy
 
Too bad they have only released TWO albums with "growling", and that was the very start of their career. Confused
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Points: 1655 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2006 at 14:14
Originally posted by Eetu Pellonpää Eetu Pellonpää wrote:

I was surprised by their Kveldssanger album, as I'm a fan of folk music. I tried to tell some other prog folk fans about this album, as they might not search folk from discographies of this kind of band. I don't think it excatly a total groundbreaking masterpiece, but moody and good release still!


I felt the same way as well. Good solid release, albeit nothing miraculous, just a nice album to have.

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I wouldn't worry about it Ivan, people like him make up their minds and are adamant in their decisions, waste of time trying to help them find new things usually.


Edited by OpethGuitarist - October 18 2006 at 14:16
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Kveldssanger was one of those albums that I long overlooked in their discography... it struck me as a "nice" album, but nowhere near the brilliant heights of most of their other albums.  I think it's really an album that you have to hear in the right mood, because out of nowhere I suddenly found myself completely in love with it.  From a subjective viewpoint it may not be a particularily outstanding album, but I find it to be utterly gorgeous and consider it one of my favorite folk albums ever.  Then again, I'm probably a little biased due to the name on the front cover...

Also check out When At Night the Wood Grouse Plays by German neo-classical metal band Empyrium if you like Kveldssanger, it's a bit less dark but a very comparable and almost equally excellent release.


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^ The other Empyrium albums are worth checking out as well - I prefer Weiland over the Wood Grouse album.Clap
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Svidd Neger is very nice soundtrack or Lycantropen
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I also have A Quick Fix of Melancholy. Great EP.

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After listening to Bergtatt and Kveldssanger I'm in the mood to cut my wrists...
They're very depressing...
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I have Kveldsanger and Perdition City. Kveldsanger has to be one of my favorite folk albums, as unlikely as it may seem. I'm a sucker for melancholy in music, and Ulver are amazing in expressing the beauty in sadness. Perdition City is very different, but it's great as well. I don't care for their early Black Metal albums though. Definitely a band worth checking out.


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I am going to have to say that Ulver is one of the best collective bands I have heard in a long time...I've liked them for well over a year now, but I am just finally beginning to "love" them...and I have to say that ALL of their albums, at least to me, are awesome, melancholic, and haunting in a way that only one other band has managed to be to me (Kayo Dot on "Chiors of the Eye") and I just thought it'd be nice to recognize them here in this unfortunately short () appreciation thread.

Long live Ulver!
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I have Bergatt, and I just got shadows of the sun today!
 
Great band!
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Love 'em, have for quite some time. Shadows of the Sun was one of the my most anticipated albums from last year, though it definitely be a slow burner. Hated it upon first listen, then took quite some time fully get into it. A subtle album that plays on the emotions more with each listen. Probably my favourite proggy album release last year.  
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2008 at 23:11
Just got done listening to SotS for the first time. Very sublime, very emotional.
 
More listens required.
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Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Just got done listening to SotS for the first time. Very sublime, very emotional.

More listens required.


I like it lots.

I just finished listening to A"Lyckantropen Themes" and I liked it a lot.

I love ambient music, and I think this album is great; the dark ambient style used almost throughout really suited my tastes, and truthfully I like it more than a bit of their studio work.

Recommended!
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Points: 1455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2008 at 14:42
Originally posted by OpethGuitarist OpethGuitarist wrote:

I really only know of two people here who enjoy Ulver here, myself and Trickster F. Anyone else here appreciate the artistry of this band?


recently, i think they have become my "current" favorite band, which essentially means they will make it into the semi-permanent top 5.

What I really meant to say is...I like them. A lot.
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I've been a fan of them since I heard Perdition City quite sometime ago. But the past few months as I've really started to explore their discography I say they rank up with Kayo Dot as one of my favorite bands right now, and definitely in the top two if we're only talking about modern bands.
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LOVE THEM!!

One of my most listened to bands. Garm is one of my favorite musicians, along with Mike Patton.


Edited by moe_blunts - February 20 2008 at 21:03
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