Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (2021 Reissue) (Digipak 2CD)

The paradigm-shifting fourth studio opus from Norwegian pioneers, ULVER. 2CD deluxe digipack edition including a retrospective look at the album by writer Jeff Wagner.

Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell includes guest vocal appearances from DARKTHRONE's Fenriz, and Ihsahn and Samoth (EMPEROR).

Having been known for their more folklore-tinged black metal compositions on early studio releases, in late 1997, mainman Kristoffer Rygg invited keyboardist, sound conceptualist, and composer Tore Ylwizaker into the collective, and together they devised a plan for The Blake Album; an altogether far more adventurous endeavour than prior releases. What resulted was a seamless integration of electronic & industrial music, with elements of progressive metal & avant-garde rock, all fused with ambient passages, & following Blake's plates as track indexes. A work of deep and personal art, the album, while initially surprising to fans due to its complete shift in genre, has become a classic today, and a prime example of the boundary-pushing evolution beyond the confines of genre expectations through the latter part of the 90s. Upon release, The Marriage of Heaven & Hell received widespread acclaim from critics within the rock, metal and alternative music press, being awarded Album of the Month in several high-profile magazines such as Terrorizer, Metal Hammer, and Rock Hard.