Ulver

Ulver (Norwegian for wolves) are a Norwegian experimental musical collective founded in 1993, by vocalist Kristoffer Rygg. Their early works, such as debut album Bergtatt, were categorised as folklore-influenced black metal, but have since evolved a fluid and increasingly eclectic musical style, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise, progressive and experimental music into their oeuvre. 1997 marked their international debut with the release of their third album Nattens madrigal through German label Century Media. However, following discord with the label, Kristoffer Rygg formed his own imprint Jester Records in 1998. British composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan joined the collective in 2009, and the band performed some of their first live concerts in their 15-year lifespan, including the prestigious Norwegian National Opera.
Ulver have sold in excess of half a million records, been twice nominated for the Norwegian Grammy Awards, Spellemannsprisen, in different categories, won Album of the Year at the Oslo Awards for Shadows of the Sun in 2008, won the NATT&DAG award for Best Live Act in 2011, and earned a global reputation for stylistic unpredictability.
Harmony Korine, the controversial director of films like Gummo, commented: "There's a real lineage from a composer like Wagner to a band like Ulver." Author and musician Julian Cope has said, "Ulver are cataloguing the death of our culture two decades before anyone else has noticed its inevitable demise."

• Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1995)
• Kveldssanger (1996)
• Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden (1997)
• Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998)
• Perdition City (2000)
• Lyckantropen Themes (2002)
• Svidd neger (2003)
• Blood Inside (2005)
• Shadows of the Sun (2007)
• Wars of the Roses (2011)
• Childhood's End (2012)
• Messe I.X-VI.X (2013)
• ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016)
• Riverhead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016)
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017)
• Flowers of Evil (2020)
• Scary Muzak (2021)