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Posted: February 27 2008 at 21:39

Blood Inside is a tight album

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:16

ProgressiveOpinion wrote:

Blood Inside is a tight album

One of the best. Of all time.

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:19

I just purchased Blood Inside. It is quite simply brilliant, as well as inspiring to me, as a keyboardist.

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:27

Blood Inside is my fave Ulver album by a long shot

I recommended it to a friend to try the band out. Good idea?

or is there one better to start with?

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:32

cookieacquired wrote:

Blood Inside is my fave Ulver album by a long shotI recommended it to a friend to try the band out. Good idea?or is there one better to start with?

In my experience recommending Ulver, all of my friends seem to prefer Kveldssanger and Perdition City to Blood Inside at first, but who knows.

Blood Inside was my first and least favorite Ulver album for a while, before I became enlightened by it's awesomeness, and now it is my favorite, and by quite the long shot.

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Dim

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:42

I dont own blood inside or perdition city...

Does that make me an ilegite Ulver fan?

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:53

schizoid_man77 wrote:

I dont own blood inside or perdition city...

Does that make me an ilegite Ulver fan?

Not exactly, but you definitely need to own them.

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Dim

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:58

Getting my hands on the albums will be tough, but I will persist!

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Posted: February 27 2008 at 23:01

schizoid_man77 wrote:

Getting my hands on the albums will be tough, but I will persist!

It is very worth it. If you come between a choice as for which to get first, definitely go with "Blood Inside".

At least, that's my recommendation...because it's better (although not better received, so you may or may not want to take this advice to heart).

Anyway, happy listening when you get them! Blood Inside may be the single greatest album ever (maybe not, but it's up there in the oligarchy for sure!)

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Posted: February 29 2008 at 15:37

I've had Blood Inside for, what, a couple of weeks now, and I love it! I went to the Rate Your Music side at first, to get an idea how the band's discography was rated, and was surprised to see BI being rated fairly low in comparison to some of their other records. The reason I say this is because the two songs I listened on YouTube were both from BI and I thought it was compelling stuff. I'm glad I got the record, after all, because each listening experience so far has revealed more things to love

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Posted: February 29 2008 at 16:58

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Noone mentions the greatest black metal album of all time, Nattens Madrigal

lol......

What?

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Posted: March 02 2008 at 00:30

MusicalSalmacis wrote:

moe_blunts wrote:

MusicalSalmacis wrote:

Noone mentions the greatest black metal album of all time, Nattens Madrigal

lol......

What?

eh, moe_blunts was kinda being rude i suppose...but not really when you think about it.

it's just that most people (including myself) consider Nattens to be fairly weak--even compared to other black metal. I certainly agree, as there are a whole plethora of albums that surpass it--including basically anything by Enslaved, Negură Bunget, Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, and even Ulver's own "Bergtatt"...

But, art is subjective, so I'm glad at least someone liked it! And I don't think it's awful, just rather subpar.

But yeah, that's what the slightly inconsiderate "lol........." was all about I believe...and I sort of agree with it, because calling anything "the greatest ______________ of all time" can be rather silly, and I say this from experience.

Oftentimes I used to do things like that, and then I'd go and change my mind like a month later, and remember something I'd said, and have to explain to everyone that I've changed my mind.

This is mostly in real life situations, but hell, if you look at my post history you'll see loads of silly contradictions

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Posted: March 12 2008 at 20:57

I absolutely love this band. Genius.

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Posted: March 13 2008 at 09:49

I suppose there's definitely more than two 'fans' of Ulver onboard

I really like Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Blood Inside myself

I've only recently first heard Perdition City and Shadows of the Sun, really liked the first one, but like their last one less

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Posted: April 12 2008 at 17:09

Has anyone heard My Own Wolf? It's a free Ulver tribute album. You can download it here: http://panacea.msk.su/ulver/1/download.html

Interesting takes on Ulver's work.

Edited by moe_blunts - April 12 2008 at 17:09

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Posted: April 14 2008 at 00:32

havnt heard the tribute but ULVER is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. i absolutley LOVE perdition city and Shadows of the Sun (still havent listened to Blood Inside through yet but i like it a lot so far) and while their black metal albums aren't up to par with the rest of their work, it is certainly good and interesting take on the genre.

What im listening to

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Posted: August 07 2008 at 01:51

"We now look much forward to locking ourselves up in the studio and not having to worry about anything else. A new opus magnum/minimum. Please be patient."

From Ulvers Myspace.

If this werent one of the greatest bands on the planet, I would post this, but it's Ulver, and they need some recognition, and this thread needs to be bumped anyways!

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Posted: August 08 2008 at 01:33

Yay a bump for a band I really need to listen to soon...

I go through seasonal music phases, and Ulver is definitely my winter band...so they're not getting a lot of love right now...

I need to give them some soon. This thread reminded me.

/guilty

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Posted: August 08 2008 at 02:52

*waits impatiently.

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Posted: August 09 2008 at 02:01

I love, nay I WORSHIP all things ULVER! I have all of their discs, and I even have a limited edition tshirt with alternate SOTS art, a limited numbered/signed poster with shadows of the sun alternate art (which is now framed in my apt.).....I was unwilling to spring for the flask however.

I also wrote a review for Shadows Of The Sun on this site.....
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=153081

I also love all of their output from their black metal beginnings to the glitch, experimental, and the drone, and everything in between. I think they owe a substantial part of their career and explorations to the maverick experimental band COIL.....but they do not necessarily rip them off. Coil is another great band to investigate in the electronica/ambient/experimental arena of dark music. Love Coil also.

either way, Ulver is unique enough that they have found their own voice, and it is fronted by the wonderful and angelic Garm......

Coil material on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKKoQUsXXM&feature=related

Edited by avalanchemaster - August 09 2008 at 02:06

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