Progressive Norwegian black metal band ULVER have posted the following press release:

Ramble On and The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet presents Ulver, live in concert with special guests IAN JOHNSTONE and CHRISTIAN FENNESZ.

The Norwegian National Opera, Main Stage - Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Ulver, early pioneers of Norwegian black metal, now living legends of the dark music industry, has since the beginning in the early nineties sold half a million albums worldwide. The band has also made music for several major motion pictures, and the controversial American director Harmony Korine sums it up: "There's a real lineage from a composer like Wagner to a band like Ulver."

Author and rock legend JULIAN COPE says: "Ulver are cataloguing the death of our culture two decades before anyone else has noticed its inevitable demise."

During their first fifteen years Ulver never played live, which contributed to the shaping of their legendary history. When Mr. Stig Sæterbakken finally succeeded in persuading the band to play their first concert at the Norwegian Festival of Literature last May, fans came from all over the world – including Australia, Japan, Canada and the US.

A newspaper writes on the band's latest concert so far, at the Logen theatre in Bergen: "The cult band hit us hard with suggestive music accompanied by images of salutary nazi jugend crosscut with living dead jews. Ulver is one of the few bands which can move from pictures of Jesus to sex, burlesque and atom bombs without making you jump. The music alone is too powerful for anything to make you more flabbergasted."

Ulver takes up The Norwegian National Opera with their dramatic mix of sound, light and images, together with prominent guests such as Christian Fennesz and the artist and Coil-affiliate Ian Johnstone. This is the first and last time Ulver performs on a major stage in Oslo in 2010.

Tickets are available at this location.