Ulver - Bergtatt Et flac album

The album showcases Ulver's ability to go from harsh, primitive black metal to calm, sophisticated folk music effortlessly. Naturally, there are the somewhat repetitive electric guitars and drums; creating a hypnotizing atmosphere. A good example of this is the opening track "I Troldskogen faren vild", which contains a melodic, and very memorable, main riff. Garm's vocals are clean and overdubbed; increasing the dreamlike atmosphere furthermore  .

The album was recorded at Endless Lydstudio in Oslo in November and December 1994 with Kristian Romsøe as engineer and co-producer.

Ulver (Norwegian for "wolves") are a Norwegian experimental musical collective founded in 1993, by vocalist Kristoffer Rygg. Their early works, such as debut album Bergtatt, were categorised as folklore-influenced black metal, but the band has since evolved a fluid and increasingly eclectic musical style, blending genres such as experimental rock, electronica, ambient, trip hop, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise, progressive and experimental music into their oeuvre.

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Bergtatt is Ulver’s first album, as well as the first of their Black Metal Trilogie, which includes Kveldssanger and Nattens Madrigal. Out of those three, this is definitely the best. Kveldssanger, which is a purely folk album (ironic that it’s a part of the Black Metal Trilogie, huh"), tends to drag a bit and Nattens Madrigal is just impossible to listen to sometimes due to its extremely heavy, raw sound and awful production. Bergtatt is somewhere in the middle.

On the other hand, there are also a number of quiet, folk-like acoustic passages (including an entire song, "Bergtatt - Ind I Fjeldkamrene") in a style that the band developed more fully on their subsequent release, Kveldssanger. Forming a gray area in between these two extremes are the more subdued, mid-paced metal sections, during which frontman Garm sings in an unusual semi-chanted style. His overdubbed vocals resemble a choir of Gregorian monks, but instead of sounding merely odd, they fit really well with the music. The archaic Dano-Norwegian lyrics were greatly influenced by Scandinavian folktales and inspired by Baroque poets such as Ludvig Holberg and the hymn-writer Thomas Kingo.