Trivia / Ulver

• Creator Backlash: Commenting on Nattens madrigal and the rumours surrounding it, Garm stated:
  Do you really think that Century Media advanced us so much that we could buy a black Corvette? Maybe some suits and drugs; I won't deny that. Or deny that we recorded it cheap. I'll let the myth carry on. We didn't have anything to do with those rumours. The moment the big labels picked up black metal, that was the beginning of the end of black metal as far as I see it. They started to exploit the genre by stuff like that — dumb sales pitches — that took the heart out of a lot of it. It became very banal. I'm not blaming Century Media, but I definitely think that that marked the beginning of the end of black metal for me. Putting out Nattens madrigal via a big label was kind of an antagonistic move. They probably expected a prettied-up Bergtatt, you know? We didn't want to conform to any business model. We still don't. It got into the mainstream and people became very adept at playing and producing professional records, and as a result of that it lost a lot of the magic that it held to me when I was a teenager listening to old Celtic Frost rehearsals, or old Mayhem demos. I'm still very much like that. I'd rather listen to old lo-fi recordings than the perfect retro-band, you know. So I was part of a different scene, a different vibe.
• Development Hell: The orchestral version of Nattens madrigal. Childhood's End was also an example as it was announced years before it was actually released, but it was eventually Saved from Development Hell.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: 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 LPs 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.

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