Norway's black-metal band Ulver debuted withBergtatt (1994).Both its arrangements (keyboards and flutes) and their vocals (mostly in theregular rock register) shunned the cliches of the genre and flirted withScandinavian folk.On the other hand, they showed they could be a ferocious black-metal gang on
Ulver: Lyckantropen Themes (Original Soundtrack For The Short Film By Steve Ericsson).
Nattens Madrigal (1996).In between these albums, they released an acoustic, 'unplugged' album,Kveldssanger (1995).Then they proceeded to create an 'electronic black metal' with the double-disccolossalThemes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell (1998),an ambitiously diverse collectionthat introduced elements of techno and industrial music.Even trip-hop leaked into Perdition City (2000).
Teachings In Silence (Black Apple) collects theEPs Silence Teaches You How To Sing, containing a single 24-minute electronic poem, and Silencing The Singing,two of their most experimental works, closer tocollages of musique concrete than to metal riffs.
Lyckantropen Themes (2003) and Svidd Neger (Jester, 2003) arefilm soundtracks.
1993-2003 (Jester, 2003) is a remix album.
After toying with electronica, techno beats, prog-rock dynamics, etc,Ulver summarized all their influences on the stylistic fusion ofBlood Inside (The End, 2005),running the gamut from industrial to ambient music, fromdowntempo dance music to doom metal, and spicing everything up with sampledsnippets of jazz, blues, classical music,continuously recasting black metal into wildly different frameworks.The orgiastic whirlwinds of Christmas and It is not Soundand postmodernist collages such as In The Red lay the foundations forthe final truculent hymn, Operator.
Shadows Of The Sun (Jester, 2008) relaxed the music a bit too much,sailing towards a soothing form of new-age music.Childhood's End (K-Scope, 2012) is a cover album.