Located in the Pacific Northwest of Canada, the band is made up of members Jade Fadel and George Allen.

Ulvik is a heavy audio and visual project mixing the band's Middle Eastern and Scandinavian cultural backgrounds into the folklore and history of a dramatic Cascadian landscape.

Their last album, the atmospheric black metal “Cascades” was released in summer of 2021. Selling out of first pressings of 150 limited edition vinyls at launch, the album was met with celebrated praise and universal high reviews.

Praise for “Cascades”

“I really loved this record. I listened to it a lot… very atmospheric, very moody”.
- Panopticon's Austin Lunn, 2021 Music Highlights

“... this is a different kind of drama, a portrait that’s both haunting and horrifying. Shimmering synths and shining strings create a feeling of ghostly mystery. Raw, roiling riffs, throat-shredding roars and screams, and deep, excavating bass frenzies become a flood of derangement.”
- No Clean Singing, full review here

“It is exhilarating. It has peaks and valleys, allowing you to bathe for a time in its moods. Ulvik are meticulous craftspeople, tinkering with multimedia art as well as music, and Cascades is clearly a record that was painstakingly assembled and carefully honed without sounding like it is either. While I’m sure Ulvik gets a lot of “FFO: WitTR,” this is for my ears a more seamless blend of metal and ambience.”
- Toilet Ov Hell, full review here

More praise for “Cascades”: Cvlt Legion | 8.75/10 Metal Temple | Avenoctum | 8.7/10 Metal Trenches | Wonderbox Metal | 82/100 Addergebroed (NL) | Impatto Sonoro (IT)

The music video for their single Baaltis also garnered a top 3 finalist position for “Best Metal Music Video” in the Canadian Independent Music Video Awards Video awards.
View the music video for Baaltis here

View “Cascades” on AVANTGARDE's Bandcamp page here.

Yesterday & Years Ago

ULVIK IS FOR FANS OF: Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Amenra, Jozef Van Wissem, Wovenhand, MGLA, Wolves In The Throne Room, Kriegsmachine.

In early 2023, Ulvik completed writing and recording their follow up album “Yesterday & Years Ago”. Having explored their affinity for atmospheric black metal with “Cascades”, “Yesterday & Years Ago” developed its own path, delving into their shared early influences of emotionally provoking, vulnerable and stark landscape releases from Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Portishead, Jozef Van Wissem and Sigur Ros. In turn, remaining committed to their signature catchy, headbang-inducing pinnacles.

In contrast and offset, the album flows into delicate folk pieces written on acoustic guitar, bouzouki, banjo, organ and violin, harnessing their love of dark folk styled instrumentation.

“Yesterday & Years Ago” is foreboding, yearning and yet captivating in its stark beauty. Both harrowing in its unrelenting heavy passages, then flowing into delicate sounds of loss and despondency, like the soundtrack to a eulogy, or a sermon for the end of the world.

Ulvik are huge fans of many of your releases, and would be honored to have this work considered for release on your label.

Click here to access a private link to 4 of the 9 songs from the new album, and here to view our new, unreleased music video. The video will be updated to include all label affiliation and information requested.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

ulvikband@gmail.com