Kristoffer Rygg, Ulver’s sustaining force since the band’s 1993 formation, reemerges with the group every few years, shrouded in a different guise: the armor of black metal, the formal decadence of ...

When vocalist Kristoffer Rygg co-founded Ulver in 1993, he was a teenager infatuated with the danger and rawness of Norwegian black metal. “When you’re 15, 16, 17, that stuff has quite the draw,” he ...

Our pal Juggalo Bob — the only juggalo who will be saved from the coming clownocaust — wins MVR for the day. He sent us a link to this entry in the blog of Daniel O’Sullivan, which includes photos of ...

Borknagar is one of the most original black metal bands out there. I mean that in two ways – they’ve been around long enough to have been one of the OG black metal bands, and they have arguably the ...

The long wait finally ended Thursday night when Ulver played their first-ever North American show at Irving Plaza, their first of two NYC shows at the venue (they do it again tonight). Along with a ...

Carpenter Brut is the latest artist to cover a classic track for the official soundtrack to Sumerian Comics' American Psycho comic book series. Carpenter Brut teamed up with Ulver's Krystoffer Rygg ...

Ulver, a band that in its 25 years has evolved from black metal into a semiclassical, electronic pop collective, is coming to Australia for the first time in two guises: the first to perform material ...