With fans such as cult director Harmony Korine and Krautrocksampler/Japrocksampler author Julian Cope, Norwegian experimentalists Ulver should command your attention. Oddly, my only encounters with leader Kristoffer Rygg and company have come through collaborations with Sunn O))) and Æthenor. But those link-ups give you an idea of the profound heaviness and doom in which Ulver have been trafficking over the last 26 years. They’ve been anything but monolithic in their discography, embracing murky shoegaze, black metal, diaphanous folk, dark ambient, and industrial. Hell, Ulver even did a shockingly brilliant album (Childhood's End) boasting covers of 1960s psych-rock songs by 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, and others. Ulver’s latest full-length, Drone Activity, features said drones in all their morbid majesty. It’d be awesome if they dosed us for two hours with this spacey nightmare fuel at the Showbox. by Dave Segal