Nattens madrigal - Aatte hymne til ulven i manden

Translation of the album title: The Madrigal of (the) Night - Eight Hymnes to the Wolf in Man.
The album's title as well as all the lyrics are written in the style of archaic 19th-century Dano-Norwegian.

No song titles were given for this album initially; the tracks were simply listed in the booklet using Roman numerals. Their actual titles are known from promo editions and reissues.

The official Ulver site states this as a 1996 album, in fact, it was released in 1997: The European version came out in March, and the US version in April.

The album has had a number of stories and tall tales behind it; it was reported that much of the money Century Media Records gave the band to record it was spent on drugs, suits, and a car, with the rest used on the album itself, resulting in the rather poor production and mastering (the band has corroborated that this was partially, though not completely, true). Upon release of the album, Century Media created an advertising campaign that claimed it was recorded "in the middle of a forest;" this, in addition to "the big labels" signing black metal acts, in frontman Kristoffer Rygg's eyes, made black metal appear cheapened and gimmicky, and was enough for him to give up black metal entirely.

Recording information:

Composed and arranged during the first half of 1995 ev.

Identifiers:

Barcode: 7 277017 715828
Matrix / Runout: CENTURY MEDIA 77158-2
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 5601
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 5602
Labelcode: LC 6975