My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver

My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver
Compilation album by various artists
Released	December 25, 2007[1]
Genre	Black metal, dark ambient, electronica, avant-garde, noise, folk, breakbeat, darkwave
Length	155:34
Label	Aspherical Asphyxia

My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver is a tribute album to the Norwegian band Ulver. It features twenty-six different artists from around the world covering material from almost every Ulver release, ranging from the demo Vargnatt up through the album Blood Inside.

Releases

The album was released for free download on December 25, 2007. In 2008, the album was released on CD by German label Cold Dimensions.

Track list

Disc 1
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Lost in Moments" (from Perdition City with the lyrics partially taken from "Dead City Centres")	Unfurl	6:36
2.	"Utreise" (from Kveldssanger)	Avathar	3:49
3.	"Blinded by Blood" (from Blood Inside)	Mura Hachigu feat. Nokturnes	7:28
4.	"Le trône de la tragédie" ("Tragediens Trone" from Vargnatt)	Smohalla	5:25
5.	"Wolf and Hatred" (from Nattens Madrigal)	Asmodée	4:55
6.	"Wolf and Devil" (from Nattens Madrigal)	Selvmord	6:10
7.	"Wolf and Passion" (from Nattens Madrigal)	Sael	4:58
8.	"Wolf and Destiny (Forest Fire version)" (from Nattens Madrigal)	Otzepenevshiye	6:04
9.	"Nattens madrigal" (from Vargnatt)	Wardaemonic	6:25
10.	"Graablick blew hun vaer" (from Bergtatt)	FB[Force]	6:33
11.	"Naturmystikk" (from Kveldssanger)	Karna	4:16
12.	"Not Saved" (from Silencing the Singing)	Fluoryne	5:26
13.	"Nowhere/Catastrophe" (from Perdition City)	Year Zero	3:49
14.	"Tomorrow Never Knows" (from Perdition City)	Sinestesia	8:21

Disc 2
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"In the Red" (from Blood Inside)	Pryapisme	3:49
2.	"Catalept" (from Perdition City)	Joey Hopkins Midget Factory	2:09
3.	"Eitttlane" (from A Quick Fix of Melancholy)	Aidan Baker	10:31
4.	"Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses" (from Perdition City)	Panacea Enterpainment	6:32
5.	"Ulver" (medley based on "Dressed in Black" from Blood Inside)	project:a	6:50
6.	"Høyfjeldsbilde" (from Kveldssanger)	Cataplus	3:17
7.	"Gnosis" (from Metamorphosis)	Jääportit	11:01
8.	"Lyckantropen Themes" (medley based on Lyckantropen Themes)	Wheel of Knowledge	5:33
9.	"Kledt i nattens farget" (from Kveldssanger)	Zweizz	4:08
10.	"Utreise" (from Kveldssanger)	Bosque	3:57
11.	"Darling, Didn't We Kill You?" (from Silencing the Singing)	Noises of Russia	7:33
12.	"The Marriage of Heaven & Hell Medley" (medley based on Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)	Ashtar	9:59

Latter CD digipak version of the tribute, released by Cold Dimensions, contains quite different version of the "Lost in Moments" cover and tracks "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Ulver" are swapped.

Credits

• Oleg Paschenko – cover art
• Ivan 'Fever' (head of Aspherical Asphyxia) – management, mixing of tracks 4 and 10 on disc 2, final mastering^[2]

See also

• folk metal – related to heavy metal music
• Arcturus – Another project of Ulver members Garm and Skoll, as well as Ulver session members Sverd, Knut Magne Valle, and Hellhammer, which started as symphonic black metal and transitioned into avant-garde metal. Garm left the band in 2003.
• Borknagar – Norwegian folk-inspired black metal band that featured Garm on vocals on their first two albums.
• Coil – similar band which likely most inspired Ulver in 2000-2002 era
• Guapo – guitarist/pianist Daniel O’Sullivan's progressive/art-rock band.
• Head Control System – a duo of Garm and the Portuguese metal musician Daniel Cardoso.
• Ved Buens Ende – side project of Skoll and Carl-Michael Eide, since disbanded, reunited and disbanded once more in early 2007.

References

1. "My Own Wolf: A New Approach". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
2. "Special Thanks". Aspherical Asphyxia Productions. Retrieved 2008-02-13.

External links

• Official site, with download mirrors
• Release page at the Discogs.com