Artist: ULVER
Album: BLOOD INSIDE (CD)

Year: 2005
Media type: CD

Blood Inside is the sixth full-length album by the Norwegian experimental band Ulver. It was recorded in early 2004. A video for "It Is Not Sound" was filmed by Acoustic Kung Fu Films! in mid-2004 (viewable here), which pushed the album's release to 2005.

Ulver's sound progresses here even more than in previous records. The music is influenced by several different genres such as rock, jazz, classical music, industrial music, and electronica.

"It Is Not Sound" is heavily based on Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prominent melody played with keyboards can easily be found in Bach's work, but there are other extracts in the background also. The lyrics for "Christmas" were adapted from the poem of the same name by Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, written in 1922.

TRACKLIST:

1. "Dressed in Black"   7:06
2. "For the Love of God"   4:11
3. "Christmas"   6:15
4. "Blinded by Blood"   6:22
5. "It Is Not Sound"   4:37
6. "The Truth"   4:01
7. "In the Red"   3:30
8. "Your Call"   6:07
9. "Operator"   3:36