Ulver
Evolutionary concept artists from Norway who have exaggerated and blurred the lines between every musical form they have enveloped. As unconventional as their approach to music has always been, the results have been consistently adherent and profound. In larval form, they torqued the genre of black metal with folk, jazz, and minimalism, offering the generally conservative genre some liberties it was once afraid to embrace.
Terrestrials
Doom behemoths Sunn O))) and Ulver meet for a deeply spiritual blood-letting on the eagerly anticipated 'Terrestrials'. What started out as an improvised all-night session between the bands following Sunn O)))'s 200th gig - playing to 2000 people at the Øya festival in Oslo, Norway, August 10th, 2008 - has grown into a tantric, cinematic dedication to the night some half decade in the making. The original tracks they created that night have been over-dubbed in the interim resulting in three exte…