[Review] Ulver - Blood Inside Metal Reviews Discuss [Review] Ulver - Blood Inside in the General Metal Forums forums; we're supposed to just post reviews here right? or should i e-mail it to a mod? ULVER - BLOOD ...

[Tommy Tee]

we're supposed to just post reviews here right? or should i e-mail it to a mod?

ULVER - BLOOD INSIDE


Experimental or 'Avant-Garde' music pretty much results in something that is either loved or hated. sadly, Ulver's latest album falls into the latter category. As much as I want to praise it for being different, the most important thing is how enjoyable it is to listen to and it gets tedious after say... 30 seconds.
The thing is, if a band is very experimental with their music, but still remember that the top priority is sounding good, it can be great. But this seems to get lost in the making of the album with most bands. Ulver probably started of wanting to make an atmospheric album that sounds a bit out of the ordinary. But ended up with something that could potentially be very atmospheric if you can get past the fact it sounds so comical.
The vocals are clean, but faint and hard to hear. the music is often interrupted (I say 'interrupted' because it seems so out of place) with ambient segments, and background tunes that would make a good intro to an cheaply made cartoon. Track 8 has a phone ringing in the background throughout the 6 minute track for apparently no reason because it adds nothing to the music at all. Track 4 sounds like the kind of rubbish you would get if you bought an ambient compilation from a supermarket on the basis that it was cheap and had a nice picture of a dolphin on the cover. Track 9 seems to be 4 TV programmes playing over the top of each other. All this stuff may be "Avant Garde" but still boring.
Of course, my opinion doesn't matter though. The wonderful thing about these experimental albums is that if someone says they don't like it, the band and their fans can simply shrug off their opinion as "not getting it".
Worth downloading one or two tracks purely for its what-the-fuck factor but not worth paying for. Possibly this would have been interesting 10 years ago but with so many bands crossing over nowadays and being weird for the sake of being weird, its not interesting in the slightest.

2/10




feel free to comment. i spent about 10 minutes writing this so feel free to say its crap but give constructive criticism.

[Hélder]

Norway's ULVER have posted a new track off their forthcoming album, "Blood Inside". Download "Christmas" at http://media.theendrecords.com/Ulver..._Christmas.mp3.
"Blood Inside" came on July 12th through The End Records.

[Tommy Tee]

no. you misunderstood.

i said post constructive criticism, not useless information. i don't care that i can download a track from some website. i have the whole album.

christ!

[Hélder]

don't make matters worse,if you have all their records so let the others at least know dollop of them.

[Tommy Tee]

if people want to hear a few songs from it they can easily go to a hub or limewire or whatever. im sure anyone whos interested will download a track 0r 2 from there or go to the official website. so please avoid copy+pasting worthless info from other websites into every thread you post in. because it pisses off people who actually discuss music.

[Hélder]

It's really a masquerade,what the fuck with you!!!it's just a preexamination and some piece of news.before,looking over my posts,try to ameliorate yours because they are really hollow,with a lot of gramatical errors.You know what,i'm in touch with your generalship,you wanna be Mourn's servent in order to conceal underneath.Please let have a good relation,or at least don't disturb me.thanks

[Tommy Tee]

yeah, obviously im just having a go at you because mourn was as well. its impossible that i would actually get pissed off with your posts that are either copied from other websites or completly useless.

and you can't insult my grammatical errors when you can't even speak the language apparently [note how i spelled 'grammatical' correctly, and you didn't?]

if a moderator wants to delete this thread then feel free to because i started it and i already hate it. if anyone wants to comment on my review then it would be nice to get some feedback even if its negative.

[Hélder]

Originally Posted by Parasite

yeah, obviously im just having a go at you because mourn was as well. its impossible that i would actually get pissed off with your posts that are either copied from other websites or completly useless.

and you can't insult my grammatical errors when you can't even speak the language apparently [note how i spelled 'grammatical' correctly, and you didn't?]

if a moderator wants to delete this thread then feel free to because i started it and i already hate it. if anyone wants to comment on my review then it would be nice to get some feedback even if its negative.

Yeah,obviously,i'm just getting a fed up at any rate,because Mourn is pretty well(for me he is perfect blended).It's unthinkable i would agree on your posts which are taking from other websites or thoroughly worthless. And you can't criticize my writing even if you can't talk seemingly/apparently[note in what way i have written "grammatical"correctly,and you didn't] When moderators want cut out this thread thus,you will hush up,because i have written it and i'm already worried If someone wants adding a new post on my review then it will be even better to some feedback even though if it's not by much.hè hè it's crammed full with boomers.it's your message and i have corrected it.

[Tommy Tee]

Originally Posted by Parasite

if a moderator wants to delete this thread dammit then feel free to because i started it and i already hate it.