| ryan5 says : AOn a personal note, i still can not enjoy DSBM nor listen to more than 2 minutes of it. I don't think i will Ever 'find my feet" with DSBM, it's one of those sub genres i just dont seem complacent with. It's not so much the connotations, it's more so the production and the vocals. The vocals i just can not stand. |
| 1. Hot damn you've improved! Musical description's more Vivid and specific than before. I have never heard this band before but I can get a decent enough impression of what they sound like from the read. |
| 2. Stop talking about yourself so much and what else you like and what your opinions are other than those you have of the album in question because that's the only thing that matters at the moment. The review is very, very, bloated, way too many paragraphs and shit, definitely could use a bit of fat-trimming. |
| wasteoflife! says : This isn't a review i just didn't really know where else to write this. I can barley write my own name let alone a review. Finally got around to listening to some Ulver, the album 'Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler'. Don't ask me why because i don't really know, but i reckon this is how Pagan Black Metal should have sounded..maybe just the atmosphere it gave me i don't know. Any way i have been listening to a few different sub genres of Black Metal and though i have heard some good stuff, a lot of the it had too much of something or were lacking something, like the the atmosphere was cool but the vocals were shit or the songs were good but too many melodic guitars solos or whatever. Ulver though it all seemed the right amount of everything, i really fucking enjoyed this shit,i haven't actually enjoyed an [I]entire[/I] album as much as i have with this one in a long time. I hope the other albums are as good, i might not listen to them for a while yet just encase they Taint this one. |
| InfinityZero says : citation :
Great to hear you finally took the step into Ulver. I usually go long periods of time without listening to Bergtatt in case I find I've grown out of it or something, but every time I hear it I realize it's just as amazaing as ever. It does away with all those shitty pseudo-epic Black Metal bands that write bloated ten-minute tracks with too many pointless interludes and no climax, as it has clear direction to all the songs. It's also willing to break Black Metal convention for the sake of atmosphere with such long breaks from The Black metal shredding (the entire first track, or the very long interlude in Capitel III), which I think works perfectly. If you look up the translations to the songs and understand the story behind the album it becomes even better, because unlike bands like Opeth where their concept albums hardly reflect the emotions of the story in the pattern of the songs and the changes and alterations don't always match what's supposedly going on, the changes and breaks in Bergtatt almost always relate to the story in some way. If you're worried about the rest of Ulver's material spoiling Bergtatt from the perspective of Black Metal, just listen to their only other Black Metal album (Nattens Madrigal) next. It's basically a lot like Darkthrone, except good. |
