 | Ulver Nattens Madrigal
4.0
excellent
| Ranking: #130 for 1997 | |
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| 4.8 classic | Necrotica | January 18th 14 |
luv. truth. this is luv, real luv, between me and fuzz. buzz. buzzing guitars and dark sounds. loud noises. buzz and fuzz I make luv to. faith. such faith I feel in fantasy and nights away from america. norway is where my luv lies, squirting like a blunderbuss, you give luv, I bring la revolucion. not like french peeps, like norwegian peeps; it was a figure of speech, alrighty? luv's back in style and ulver's in the game. proud and loud, my peeps
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| 4.5 superb | Ocean of Noise | February 26th 14 |
Perhaps the most ridiculous and awesome example of the '90s lo-fi black metal aesthetic. Inaccessible and mind-boggling to the extreme; one of the best albums in Ulver's catalogue.
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| 0.0 | Wreath | March 30th 12 |
*crrrsshschchshchhssschhhhhhrrrrcsshsrrrchh*. Beneath an utter eyesore in terms of production there are actually some good riffs and the songwriting isn't all that bad at all either. I just think you'd have to be somewhat of a hipster in order to sincerely enjoy this. :3
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| 0.0 | sifFlammable | January 13th 11 |
Truly beautiful songwriting let down by the band's deliberate attempt to be an asshole Century Media.
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| 2.0 poor | yontar | July 12th 08 |
all i am going to say is that whenever i have friends over and they think that what im listening to is bizarre or even sucks i just play any track off of this and they take it back. bergatt is light years better than this. the production just sucks a huge (well you know), and i'm not even going into how grating this album is on a decent set of headphones.
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| 0.0 | Acidicity | January 14th 07 |
This is black metal in it's most sincere and carthaic form. A guy screaming over steroided blastbeats and tremolo picking recorded in a petrified forest with a tape recorder. Pure genius. It's not dramatically stylistically different then the other albums in the genre, but the pure and unrestrained emotion poured into every cymbal crash and gut-wrenching scream rips the listener apart. The best black metal album I own, by quite a long shot.
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| 3.5 great | pyroflare77 | May 29th 23 |
Both the best and the worst black metal album of all time
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| 3.0 good | Ossacip Olbap | May 21st 22 |
basic bitch bm with some extra diddlies whoa. vi n vii are pretty tho. also le volf
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| 4.5 superb | mutiilated | April 5th 21 |
Ulver's third release is the band's rawest and by far the mist aggressive. Ulver proves once more that they are able to do whatever they decide exceptional.
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| 4.5 superb | GamamJ | April 25th 20 |
Back when Ulver did Black Metal, they were among the best, showcasing the perfect contrast between grim coldness and melancholy beauty. Atmospheric tremolo-picked melodies combine with ugly riffs and a folky overtone to create one of the best BM albums ever. Too bad it was also their last. The rawness of the production just adds to the experience.
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| 4.5 superb | lecolumbus | May 4th 19 |
The biggest joke Ulver ever played on us was crafting an album of masterful black metal, and just
pairing it with a notoriously deliberately awful production job. If this had decent production, it
would still be considered a masterpiece even sans its current reputation. Thankfully there was a
remaster released recently that's still not exactly hi-fi, but nonetheless it's no longer ear-
splitting after too long. This score is for that version. The original gets a 3.5 - similar
reasons for my score on Kayo Dot's Gamma Knife.
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| 4.5 superb | thurs | February 9th 18 |
I'm pretty sure that this album is supposed to make fun of serious black metal, and that Garm and Co. think you're an idiot if you actually genuinely like this. But whatever. I know the raw production is actually fake as hell, and just a cascading parody on itself. But I still really really like this...
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| 4.0 excellent | EasterInTheBatcave | January 13th 16 |
An excellent record featuring some of the best black metal songwriting ever put to record. Ulver are, with the incredibly noisy production, on the borderline of going overboard with the black metal aesthetic (well, either that or they, as per legend, recorded this in a forest and spent the record company advance on cars and drugs), but nonetheless, the fuzziness works in the record's favour, contributing to the heavy atmosphere.
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| 2.5 average | Alex C. | March 12th 15 |
I imagine them recording this on those multi-colored thingies with a mic I used to scream and shout in when I was a kid. so cool
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| 4.0 excellent | pbass0 | January 18th 14 |
A perfect black metal album ruined by a terrible last song. Those keyboards/xylophone in the middle half kill the song.
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| 0.0 | mindleviticus | November 14th 12 |
Awful and filthy production aside with amazing black metal songwriting showing the reciprocal of the folky Kveldssanger and adding that aggression to the blueprints for Bergtatt
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| 5.0 classic | Winter | April 21st 12 |
Trve Norwegian gold! You can't help feeling the forest around you when Ulver plays black metal.
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| 3.5 great | LokitheTrickster | February 23rd 12 |
Definitely interesting in terms of the concept explored. The lyrics are some of the best I've ever seen on any album. The one drawback to this album has to do with the music. Personally, I wish Ulver had included a bit more tonal changes like they did on their first album. This lack of change makes the album very difficult for most people not familiar with black metal to listen to.
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| 5.0 classic | ThrashK | February 21st 12 |
Sincerely, this is one of the top black metal albums I've ever heard. Structured around lycanthropy, here you have eight songs of pure, raw, dark, lethal but still somehow beautiful black metal... I don't know how the guys did it, but this is one of the greatest things I own.
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| 4.0 excellent | inpraiseoffolly | April 14th 07 |
Let me get this out of the way before I actually focus on the album: I am not a black metal fan in any way shape or form. I bought this album for two reasons: 1) I was curious what the epitome of Black Metal sounded like and 2) I liked the cover. Not very inspired reasons, really. Ulver, in the circles of music I follow, are much more highly regarded for Perdition City and those style albums than their Black Metal trilogy. But nevermind all of that, because this album is fantastic. I was completely blown away. The first time I heard it, I hated the production. The second time, it failed to bother me at all. I was able to feel the emotion, the energy, and the intelligence that characterize this music. Raw, primordial, and primitive, just like the werewolf around which the concept revolves. Perfect at what it does, in short. Black Metal isn't my style, but this album proves the exception to that rule. And about the concept. Ignore it. You probably don't speak Norwegian, and you can barely hear the vocals, anyway. Just listen to... no, just FEEL the music. It's an adrenaline rush. In all honesty, I expected to buy this album for the experience and brush it off with a two star rating. On the main website I write reviews for, where this album is included solely because it's by the same band as the one that released Perdition City, I will give it a two because it doesn't fit the style of that site. But here, I can safely give it four stars, because that's what it deserves.
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| 4.5 superb | Angmar | January 11th 07 |
After Getting both Bergtatt and Kveldssanger I figured I should adleast finish out the Black Metal trilogy of Ulver. So a couple days ago i downloaded Nattens Madrigal. And for me it is probubly the most raw black metal album I own. The Music is very enjoyable and there is an interesting concept behind it all. Aside from the horrid production quality this isnt half bad. Although I am still partial to the blend of soft and heavy instead of just the all out heavy that this album brings to the table.
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| 5.0 classic | bach | March 18th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Ryus | February 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Packy91 | January 24th 24 |
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| 4.0 excellent | ibecryst | December 19th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Verdr | November 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | qt | November 2nd 23 |
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| 2.5 average | gnav | July 5th 23 |
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| 2.0 poor | valek | August 31st 21 |
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| 1.0 awful | Hehe | December 14th 20 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Runeii | October 5th 20 |
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| 2.5 average | Boivin | June 18th 20 |
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| 2.0 poor | Matis | January 8th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Jips | December 23rd 10 |
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