THE TRILOGIE: THREE JOURNEYES THROUGH THE NORWEGIAN NETHERWORLDE

A picture disc repackaging of Ulver's early black metal and folk material, The Trilogie is the first of several reissues this material would get. The packaging is beautiful, as expected, but it suffers from the usual subpar audio quality of picture discs with excessive crackles and pops, and the material has not been remastered for this release. For Bergtatt and Kveldssanger the lack of remastering is not a problem, but Nattens madrigal remains the unrelenting wall of noise it was on every pre-Trolsk sortmetall reissue of the album, which remains a problem even on vinyl. The material on this set is essential, so if you can afford the inflated second-hand prices this set goes for and you find them worth paying for the packaging, it's worth picking up, but there are better ways to acquire this material. (I'd most highly recommend the vinyl version of Trolsk sortmetall).