The Argument, Plate 2
Plate 3
Plate 3, Following
The Voice Of The Devil, Plate 4
Plates 5–6
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 6–7
Proverbs Of Hell, Plates 7–10
Plate 11
Instrumental 1
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 12–13
Plate 14
A Memorable Fancy, Plate 15
Plates 16–17
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 17–20
Instrumental 2
Plates 21–22
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 22–24
Instrumental 3
A Song Of Liberty, Plates 25–27 / Chorus
Frogtoon Music Album Info: Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
Published: 03 Mar 2017, 04:59
Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Is The Fourth Studio Album By Norwegian Experimental Collective Ulver. Produced With Kristoffer Rygg Together With Knut Magne Valle And Tore Ylwizaker It Was Issued On December 17 1998 Via Jester Records. It Is A Musical Setting Of William Blake's Poem The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell. The Album Blended Electronics Industrial Music Elements Progressive Metal And Avant-Garde Rock Adding Ambient Passages Following Blake's Plates As Track Indexes. Stine Grytøyr Ihsahn Samoth And Fenriz All Feature As Guest Vocalists. In Late 1997 Kristoffer Rygg Invited Keyboardist Sound Conceptualist And Composer Tore Ylwizaker Into The Collective And Together They Created A Strategy For The Blake Album. Musically The Album Transcended Black Metal’s Aesthetics To Create A Genre-Defying Work And Employed Everything From Ambient And Classical Sounds To Industrial Prog Metal And Art Rock. The Title Alone Being A Loud Signal That Ulver Had Changed Somewhat.
"For Me " Says Garm "the Blake Record Kind Of Signifies The Second Chapter Or The New Beginning – Newer If You Will – And Not Only From An Ideological Or Lyrical Perspective But Also Musically Because By That Time I Had Acquired Knowledge On Technology And How To Work With Software And Computers So We Kind Of Had The Knowledge To Do New Things With Music. In A Way It's Quite Natural That We Wanted To Explore Other Things Almost From The Beginning Which I Think The Second Album Kveldssanger Is A Good Example Of. So We Were Never Like Strictly Into Black Metal. It's Actually Pretty Natural. I Think A Lot Of People Tend To Think Of It As Very Weird Or Very Strange That The Focus Shifted So Radically But I Don't."
The Album And The Band In General Got A Great Deal Of Back-Lash From The Black Metal Community For Abruptly Changing Musical Styles Though The Band Expressly Claimed To Not Be Part Of The "so-Called Black Metal Scene" In The Liner Notes Of The Booklet. While Genre Purists Were Taken Aback By The Violation Of Their Boundaries A New Audience Now Discovered The Band.