History Music / Ulver

* EpicRocking: Quite a few songs. Perhaps the best examples are "Proverbs of Hell, Plates 7-10" and "A Memorable Fancy, Plates 17-20" from the Blake album, "Stone Angels" from ''Wars of the Roses'', and about half of ''Messe I.X-VI.X''.

* ''Terrestrials'' (collaboration with Music/SunnO; [[{{Ambient}} Dark Ambient]], Drone)

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: There have been two versions of this for the band's "black metal Trilogie". One, released in 1997, was called ''The Trilogie: Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde'', which was a box set with three picture discs and a bunch of {{Feelies}}. The second, released in 2014, was called ''Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997'' and included either five [=CDs=] or four [=LPs=] and a cassette along with the requisite {{Feelies}}, which were different this time around (also, unlike ''The Trilogie'', this included the band's demo ''Vargnatt'' and a rehearsal of four ''Nattens Madrigal'' tracks). The material was also remastered for ''Trolsk Sortmetall''.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: There have been two versions of this for the band's "black metal Trilogie". One, released in 1997, was called ''The Trilogie: Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde'', which was a box set with three picture discs and a bunch of {{Feelies}}. The second, released in 2014, was called ''Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997'' and included either five [=CDs=] or four [=LPs=] and a cassette along with a bunch of {{Feelies}} (unlike the previous edition, this included the band's demo ''Vargnatt'' and a rehearsal of four ''Nattens Madrigal'' tracks). The material was also remastered for ''Trolsk Sortmetall''.

** The remaster of ''Nattens'' on ''Trolsk Sortmetall'' averts this. Unfortunately, the version of ''Bergtatt'' on the same release is louder than the original.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: There have been two versions of this for the band's "black metal Trilogie". One, released in 1997, was called ''The Trilogie: Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde'', which was a box set with three picture discs and a bunch of {{Feelies}}. The second, released in 2014, was called ''Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997'' and included either five CDs or four LPs and a cassette along with a bunch of {{Feelies}} (unlike the previous edition, this included the band's demo ''Vargnatt'' and a rehearsal of four ''Nattens Madrigal'' tracks). The material was also remastered for ''Trolsk Sortmetall''.

* ''Shadows of the Sun'' (Dark Ambient)

* ''Messe I.X-VI.X'' (Modern Classical, Dark Ambient, ProgressiveRock)

* CoverVersion: The band covered Music/BlackSabbath 's "Solitude" on ''Shadows of the Sun'' and {{Prince}}'s "Thieves" for a tribute album. Furthermore, ''Childhood's End'' consists entirely of covers of material from the late sixties, mostly quite obscure (JeffersonAirplane's "Today" is by far the best known song covered).

* LoudnessWar: ''Nattens Madrigal'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -16.22 dB, which indicates a gigantic amount of volume compression (especially considering that there are probably five minutes' worth of ambient passages between the tracks dragging the values down somewhat). This was likely a deliberate aesthetic choice to make the album's production even colder. To their credit, the band took care to avoid any clipping when mastering it, and the remainder of their records are mastered at more reasonable levels. Fortunately, ''Nattens Madrigal'' was recently reissued on vinyl. It was also released on vinyl in the late 90s as part of ''The trilogie'' box set, but good luck finding a copy at a reasonable price - they go for more than $200 on [=eBay=] and Discogs.

* ''Wars of the Roses'' (AvantGarde, ProgressiveRock)

* ''Wars of the Roses''

* LoudnessWar: ''Nattens Madrigal'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -16.22 dB, which indicates a gigantic amount of volume compression (especially considering that there are probably five minutes' worth of ambient passages between the tracks dragging the values down somewhat). This was likely a deliberate aesthetic choice to make the album's production even colder. The remainder of their records are mastered at more reasonable levels. Fortunately, ''Nattens Madrigal'' was recently reissued on vinyl. It was also released on vinyl in the late 90s as part of ''The trilogie'' box set, but good luck finding a copy at a reasonable price - they go for more than $200 on [=eBay=] and Discogs.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Despite being significanty more "accessible" than most of their material, many fans will cite "Nowhere/Catastrophe" to be among their favorite selections from their discography.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Doubles with BilingualBonus. On the aforementioned remix track (called "Der Alte"), the German conversation is about an old man lamenting about how useless he is to his family, and a younger man assuring him how much he'd be missed when he finally does pass on.

* FaceOfTheBand: Although the band insists on being a collective, most fans can only seem to recognize the name of Krystoffer Rygg (better known as Garm).

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: MASSIVELY subverted; even the die-hard black metal fans of the first few albums seem to readily embrace the band's later work.

* CoverVersion: The band covered Music/BlackSabbath 's "Solitude" on ''Shadows of the Sun'' and {{Prince}}'s "Thieves" for a tribute album. There is also a forthcoming album which will consist of covers of material from the late sixties.

* LoudnessWar: ''Nattens Madrigal'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -16.22 dB, which indicates a gigantic amount of volume compression (especially considering that there are probably five minutes' worth of ambient passages between the tracks dragging the values down somewhat). This was likely a deliberate aesthetic choice to make the album's production even colder. The remainder of their records are mastered at more reasonable levels. ''Nattens Madrigal'' was released on vinyl as part of ''The trilogie'' box set, but good luck finding a copy at a reasonable price - they go for more than $200 on [=eBay=] and Discogs.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Perdition City'' is meant to be "Music to an Interior Film" (as it says on the cover). The Blake Album as well, see AudioAdaptation above.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nattens Madrigal'''s full title translates to "The Madrigal Of The Night - Eight Hymns To The Wolf In Man", and it's eight songs, numbered "Hymn I" through "Hymn VIII", in a concept album about... well...

* SopranoAndGravel: Demonstrated in "Your Call" and a good deal of "The Blake Album"

* UrbanLegend: The reason why Nattens Madrigal is so underproduced is either because they recorded the album in the woods at night or because they stole all the money their label gave them to buy Armani suits, cocaine and a new car. WordOfGod dismissed the former as impossible but said the band did have rather expensive tastes when asked about the latter.

* LoudnessWar: ''Nattens Madrigal'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -16.22 dB, which indicates a gigantic amount of volume compression (especially considering that there are probably five minutes' worth of ambient passages between the tracks dragging the values down somewhat). This was likely a deliberate aesthetic choice to make the album's production even colder. The remainder of their records are mastered at more reasonable levels.

* BilingualBonus: The first three albums are sung entirely in an archaic form of Danish. A track on their remix album, ''1st Decade in the Machines'', contains a conversation entierly in German. Not to mention their very name is Norwegian for "wolves".

* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming: Doubles with BilingualBonus. On the aforementioned remix track (called "Der Alte"), the German conversation is about an old man lamenting about how useless he is to his family, and a younger man assuring him how much he'd be missed when he finally does pass on.

* {{TheyChangedItNowItSucks}}: MASSIVELY subverted; even the die-hard black metal fans of the first few albums seem to readily embrace the band's later work.

* ''Nattens Madrigal'' (Raw BlackMetal)

* LoudnessWar: ''Nattens Madrigal'' has a ReplayGain value of -16.22 dB, which indicates a gigantic amount of volume compression (especially considering that there are probably five minutes' worth of ambient passages between the tracks dragging the values down somewhat). This was likely a deliberate aesthetic choice to make the album's production even colder. The remainder of their records are mastered at more reasonable levels.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Perdition City'' is meant to be "Music to an Interior Film" (as it says on the cover).
* CoverVersion: The band covered Music/BlackSabbath 's "Solitude" on ''Shadows of the Sun'' and {{Prince}}'s "Thieves" for a tribute album. There is also a forthcoming album which will consist of covers of material from the sixties and seventies.