![]() Bergtatt features a melancholic, fully acoustic song "Een stemme locker" (A Voice Beckons). The subtitle translates as "A Tale in 5 Chapters". ![]() The narrative of the album's lyrics follows a maiden as she becomes so mountain-taken. The title Bergtatt translates as "taken by the mountains" in Norwegian folklore the word refers to people who wander off into mountains, lured by trolls or other mythic creatures. The album Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler is placed in the folk-themed black metal genre for its occasionally fast tempo, distorted electric guitars and croaky screaming vocals intermitted with melodious acoustic passages with singing, and for having a fantasy storyline. The themes of the lyrics were greatly influenced by Scandinavian folktales. The archaic Dano-Norwegian lyrics were inspired by Baroque poets such as Ludvig Holberg and the hymn-writer Thomas Kingo. ![]() Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1994), Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and experimental music into their oeuvre, but with a heavy reliance on electronic recording techniques.Īlthough Ulver's first three albums are often called their “Black Metal Trilogie”, they are quite different in style, with only two of them belonging at all to the black metal genre. The Blake Album invited composer and sound architect Tore Ylwizaker into the collective in order to expand their artistic and musical visions and together they stepped over the boundaries of black metal aesthetics, creating a genre-defying work in, released in December 1998.Ulver (Norwegian for wolves) is a music band from Norway. The album answers exactly why people were so angered by Ulver’s transition away from black metal, and why people are still bitter at their direction today.' In 1997, issued, a limited edition collection, containing, and in LP Picture Disc format, housed in a cardboard box, with a booklet & bonus posters. If that’s the case, then Nattens madrigal really showcases the black metal prowess of the band. ![]() The album has been described as 'so fast and ferocious and the vocals so garbled that it's best just to take the sheer sonic force as reflecting the band's concept, rather than trying to piece it all together.' Metal Injection concluded ' Kveldssanger had no electric instruments, Nattens madrigal had no acoustic instruments, but Bergtatt, has both acoustic and electric instruments it’s like they spliced the elements from Bergtatt into two separate albums. ![]()
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