Wölfe im Wandel - Die Geschichte von Ulver - Book

Hardcover 19.4 x 25.6, 352 pages. German language.

A book about Ulver - our history - was under discussion for a long time, first for our
for our 15th anniversary, then for the 20th, but now, after more than a quarter of a
quarter of a century the time has finally come. We have spent a large part of our lives
taming this predator, and the future is no longer what it once promised to be,
what it once promised to be.

Wolves in transition - The story of Ulver begins with memories of their
first rehearsal space in downtown Oslo, back in 1993, in the midst of a new,
scene - small, fertile and hell-bent on pushing boundaries.
boundaries. The book follows Ulver through the dark forests of her childhood and into the
the dead city centers, where they were to switch between many guises in the future:
Renegades and phantoms, thieves and mourners, chameleons and dogs.
“We go into the ruins to understand,” says the band, and Wolves in Transition
is indeed a labyrinthine story of musical evolution on a grand scale.
style. Some may be confused. Others will follow the band through their pantheon of
friends and partners, obsessions and anecdotes. Meanwhile
they will get a glimpse of the forms and un-forms that the alternative
alternative cultures of the last three decades, rescued from the injustice
the injustice of oblivion.