Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler

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Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler

Studio album by Ulver
Released	1995
Recorded	November-December 1994
Genre	Folk Black metal
Length	34:17
Label	Head Not Found House of Kicks
Producer(s)	Ulver & Kristian Romsøe
Satan Stole My Teddybear (highly favourable) December 1998 All Music Guide link
Ulver chronology
Vargnatt (1993)	Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (1995)	Kveldssanger (1996)

Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (Spellbound - A faerietale in 5 chapters) is the debut album by Norwegian black metal band Ulver.

In this, their debut album, Ulver give a very eclectic mixture of black metal and folk, which is very soulful in a black metal way, although it is very different from a lot of the conventions adopted by bands within the genre. There is some good acoustic guitar playing, clean as well as black metal vocals, necro guitars and blastbeats. All of the lyrics are in archaic Danish, as opposed to English or the band's native Norwegian (while most European musicians sing in English, Norwegian black metal artists have been known to use their own language for aesthetic purposes). The acoustic side of the album was to be completely adopted in their second album, Kveldssanger while the third album, Nattens Madrigal consists of a completely Black Metal 'necro' production and sound, a very strange backwards (or forwards, depending on how you look at it) direction for the band.