Perdition City (subtitled Music to an Interior Film) is the fifth studio album by Norwegian experimental electronica band Ulver, issued in March 2000, via Jester Records.

Perdition City continues the experimentation heard on Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Metamorphosis, containing elements of trip hop, jazz, ambient music, spoken word and electronica, the combination being described as "moody", "atmospheric",[1] and "cinematic in scope".

[5] Subtitled "Music to an Interior Film", Perdition City, and companion EP’s Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing, represent the transition to the band's work in film scores, largely inspired by the results of electronic programming and digital sound manipulation they had experimented with during the recording of Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

"[7] Leonards Lair state that Perdition City is “much more than background music, which is capable of adding atmosphere to a film, but taken out of context as a standalone piece is ultimately worthless.

A friend of mine who has written books and taken many photographs inspired me to capture weird pictures.

That all takes place in the dead city, or better: in a centre, an imagined location of nowhere and nothing.”[10] Rygg, commenting in Unrestrained magazine in 2007, said, "It's like I say, we only have three consistent albums.

We were heavily into stuff like Amon Tobin, Warp Records, et cetera, and that certainly influenced the sound of that one."

"[11] Writing for AllMusic, William York commented positively, “Fifth album, Perdition City is an album of moody, atmospheric electronica, built up around basic down-tempo beats and noir-ish electronic piano harmonies, and then fleshed out with various blips and bleeps, static noises, samples, and occasional vocals.”[12] Additionally, Johnathan Hill highlighted the album's "jazz-tinged" moments, noting that the "rich and varied instrumental passages" allowed for a greater level of depth to the band's musical explorations.