by joseangeles@muchomail.com
Arguably one of their best albums, I really can’t decide which Ulver album is the best. They create unique music that you either love or hate. And I love it. My only problem with this is the lyrics. I appreciate music more when I understand the message trying to be conveyed. Besides that, there’s a dark beautiful atmospheric created. Ulver knows how to chisel sorrow filled melodies with the quick black metal. And the bass harmonies are very noticeable, unlike in some bands where you forget there’s even a bass when it’s blurred out. The clean singing is top notch (not whiny yet soft) and the black metal screeching is what you’d expect from any other black metal band. Gentle acoustic folk plucking will pop up every now and then. It actually reminds me of Opeth before My Arms Your Hearse. The setting this music takes you is kind of like Opeth’s Orchid (one of my all time favorites). This is for fans of Agalloch cause of the folky parts and Dissection cause of the aggressive melodic death influenced black metal parts. Just think of this as Opeth being a progressive black metal band, and not a progressive death metal band.10/10