The album is intentionally underproduced, akin to Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, with buzzing guitars and rather muffled drums. Unlike on Bergtatt, however, the only acoustic instruments appear in a brief interlude in the first track. The third album, Nattens madrigal (Madrigal of the Night), saw the band returning to a black metal style similar to Bergtatt. Garm has since remarked that Kveldssanger was an "immature attempt at making a classical album", later adding that the performance was immature, yet the content is strong when their youth at the time is taken into account. Kveldssanger, Ulver's second album, contrasts with Bergtatt as it uses classical guitars, cello and chamber chants, completely eschewing the metal elements of Bergtatt, while still having a folk theme. Bergtatt features a melancholic, fully acoustic song "Een stemme locker" (A Voice Beckons). The subtitle translates as "A Tale in 5 Chapters". The narrative of the album's lyrics follows a maiden as she becomes so mountain-taken. The title Bergtatt translates as "taken by the mountains" in Norwegian folklore the word refers to people who wander off into mountains, lured by trolls or other mythic creatures. The album Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler is placed in the folk-themed black metal genre for its occasionally fast tempo, distorted electric guitars and croaky screaming vocals intermitted with melodious acoustic passages with singing, and for having a fantasy storyline. The themes of the lyrics were greatly influenced by Scandinavian folktales. The archaic Dano-Norwegian lyrics were inspired by Baroque poets such as Ludvig Holberg and the hymn-writer Thomas Kingo. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1994), Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and experimental music into their oeuvre, but with a heavy reliance on electronic recording techniques.Īlthough Ulver's first three albums are often called their “Black Metal Trilogie”, they are quite different in style, with only two of them belonging at all to the black metal genre. Ulver (Norwegian for wolves) is a music band from Norway.
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