Ulver's Experimental Sound at Parma's Labirinto della Masone

Norwegian experimental band Ulver performed at the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, Parma, presenting their 2017 album 'The Assassination of Julius Caesar'. The concert took place on the same stage where Sunn O))) played a year earlier. The set included the entire album except the instrumental track 'The Future Sound of Music' from 'Perdition City' (2000), which unexpectedly interrupted the chorus of 'Rolling Stone'. The performance featured a stretched cloth backdrop with laser projections, a pyramid structure behind the band, and visuals that spread across the space. Kristoffer 'Garm' Rigg's vocals referenced historical icons such as Lady Diana, Nero, LaVey, the fall of Rome, and the Battle of Dunkirk. The song 'Angelus Novus' evoked Paul Klee's angel reinterpreted by Walter Benjamin, while the closing twenty-minute suite 'Coming Home' culminated in a psychedelic crescendo. The band's sound blended dark synth, dance rhythms, and guitar reverb, creating an electro-pop aesthetic that reimagines history and myth.