The new album serves as the follow-up to 2004's 'Blood Inside,' the critically-acclaimed album that showcased the band's vibrant musical progression masterfully scripted amongst their unique vision, style and sound.  In regards to the direction of the new album, the band recently posted on their official site: "Many of you have been waiting for sound, and we are sorry for the silence. We needed to be alone, without the hustle and bustle of the living. We are uncomfortable with the world, the industry and our place. We have been working, sluggishly, well aware we could end up with nothing.

"Nonetheless we believe we have succeeded in giving our fears some kind of form. We feel it is our most personal record to date. Low-key, dark, and tragic. As we are."

The full tracklisting for the album is:


ULVER
Shadows of the Sun
TE089 | The End | 10/02/07
UPC: 654436008927
1. Eos
2. All The Love
3. Like Music
4. Vigil
5. Shadows Of The Sun
6. Let The Children Go
7. Solitude
8. Funebrae
9. What Happened?

What the press are saying about ULVER...

"...Shadows of the Sun rinses all traces of the Norwegian trio's past...an electro-tinged, classically inspired collection of dusky ballads centered on the welcoming baritone of Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg..." - PITCHFORK.COM

Shadows of the Sun is a patient and beautiful, timeless and modern record ??? another classic Ulver record in a catalogue full of surprises." - THE SENTIMENTALIST

"...a haunting listening experience that is hard to classify, but impossible to ignore...one of the most fascinating "mood" listens of the year." - SEA OF TRANQUILITY

"Stripped of all accoutrements, Shadows of the Sun is Ulver laid bare, an exquisite blend of warmth and frigidity, akin to bracing yourself against an icy Nordic wind as the sun rises in the distance." - POPMATTERS.COM
 
"Somber and melancholy, Shadows Of The Sun finds Ulver exploring mellow, subdued soundscapes worlds away from their black metal origins. It's haunting and dark music that makes up in emotional impact what it lacks in extremity.  Their subdued interpretation of Black Sabbath's "Solitude" is a highlight." - ABOUT.COM
 
???Ulver???s latest is a soothing, spectral excursion, with a disturbing undercurrent that subtly betrays their Norse black metal origins. Reining in the relative bombast of Blood Inside, Ulver has created haunting, torch-lit chamber music for a new dark age. Superbly imagined and impeccably executed.??? - DIFFICULT MUSIC
 
"The most intimate and passionate ULVER release yet, "Shadows Of The Sun" is a somber and tragic masterpiece, a true reflection of the far inner reaches of the soul and heart..." - BW&BK

"Ulver is the anti-Sunn O))); where Sunn's music makes me want to lurk in a cave in a heavy black robe, mourning the futility of existence, 'Shadows Of The Sun' makes me want to put on white robes and frolic in sun-dappled fields, occasionally stopping to roll in the grass. If medieval Christians had synths, they'd have made music that sounded like this. And the cover of Black Sabbath's 'Solitude' is one of the most evocative adaptations of the group's music ever, by anybody." -  METAL EDGE

More info:
Website: http://www.jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ulver1