 "Melody and Brutality" | 2009-02-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A48RPNV5CNDWB |
| This is one of the best black metal albums of all time. It has melody and clear haunting vocals along with the rough black metal that came in the next album. It also has a story to it. It's a gem that shouldn't be missed by anyone who is interested in something different. Growing up in Michigan, the soundscapes of bleak winter and pagan majesty really hit home for me. The first time I heard this album I loved it and still do to this day. If you haven't listened yet or are turned off by the strange turns Ulver took in this decade then go back to Bergtatt to see what they were like when they first started. |
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| "GOD LIKE DEBUT ALBUM" | 2008-10-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A357LOS2BVW6GO |
| ok ulver this is probley there best album because now they are really experamental which isnt a bad thing ulver bergtatt is just an amazing album some of the best metal was realease in the 1990s soits like folk melodic/black i recommend this master peice from an amazing band |
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| "Folk and Black Fusion's Magnum Opus" | 2008-05-19 |
| - Reviewed By cotton_hell |
| Bergtatt is such an incredible album and one of Ulver's best achievements. This gave the genre known as black metal a new makeover and proved that by bending a few rules and drawing many influences, you can create a masterpiece. The production is raw, but it's not the borderline white noise or bedroom quality recordings expected from many bands of the genre. It's an album full of beautiful folk-laden melodies, black metal intensity, and some of the strongest songwriting that the genre will ever produce. The atmosphere produced by all of this makes it easy to just relax and enjoy the brilliant telltale masterpiece Ulver created. Nothing can ever compare to this, it's a breathtaking odyssey that is definitely worth your time. |
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| "beautiful" | 2008-05-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1FK06OIIRXTTI |
| this is one of the best black metal albums of all time. a true beauty, very rough dark black metal with beautiful ambient slow melodic passages. simply genius. Ulver should go back to this era again. if you are into black metal...this album is a MUST!!!!! |
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 "I don't see the point" | 2007-07-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: AMCV6JU6PLTJA |
honestly, for the life of me, I don't get what all the hype about Ulver is... I love black metal, and these guys are almost put up like a litmus test of "tr00-ness". *yawn* No thanks... give me Immortal or Marduk any day. If I want atmospheric qualities to my black metal, Emperor or Dimmu Borgir fit the bill nicely.
Ulver is just... I dunno, it doesn't SUCK, it's just... **shrug** |
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| "Landmark" | 2007-07-03 |
| - Reviewed By rev_maynard |
Along with some Agalloch and Weakling this is probably the best black metal album I've heard. There are a number of reasons for this, but the point I find myself considering most often is the fantastically idiosyncratic nature of this album, both stylistically and sonically.
'Blackened folk-metal' is actually quite an apt description here, although it doesn't quite tell the whole story.
The music is composed of, and oscillates wildly between a number of different moods. We have harsh, exceeptionally fast black metal passages, with guitars that do buzz, but more often create highly melodic, eerie riffs. We also have delicate acoustic passages that foreshadow some of what Opeth would do, but on _Bergtatt_ these passages are more bleak, haunting and somehow grating, despite their great beauty. On top of this we have certain sections with chanted, almost lullaby like folkish vocals which engender a fascintaing, trancelike atmosphere, and some atmopsheric, droning areas with minimal metallic bluster.
If I have characterised the album as somehting of a twisted, multi-sectioned landscape then I have probably achieved the most effective interpretation I could have hoped for, as _Bergtatt_ evokes, for me, blasted, windswept hillsides and parched, desert geography. I also refrain from describing the album track by track as it functions very well as a whole, with sections and ideas linking across the tracks rather than segregation (track 4 does vary from the template slightly). Overall, this is a very special album because it touches on so many ideas and posesses such great beauty (often to be found in the most unexpected places).
In fact, _Bergtatt_ barely sounds like a black metal album, or at least the ideal of a black metal album as a noisy, disastrous and destructive musical form. Progressive, entrancing, unique, clever and very, very rewarding. |
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