Ulver

Ulver – Flowers Of Evil (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:56 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Darkwave, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © House Of Mythology

In the midst of the forest, the floor is littered with monstrous heads and mythical figures, frozen in torturous combat or threatened by wild beasts. A dragon fights a dog and a wolf. A lion sinks its teeth into the fire-breathing monster’s chest.

This sacred grove, near Bomarzo in Lazio, Italy, reveals the nightmare vision of Vicino Orsini, a sixteenth century nobleman. It’s a forest of symbols, suggesting a civilisation overrun by the beasts, demons and monsters of the primordial world. Soon after Orsini’s death, trees began to close in on these many peculiar beings, and green moss would eventually seize them. Slowly, nature finished what he had started.

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