I miss this lineup. The new guys are still really good, but there was just something so quintessential and precise about the 2004-2016 era of the band, from Isa to In Times.
Saw Enslaved last night at The Fleece, Bristol in UK. What an awesome gig! It was a truly magical, spellbinding performance. The Watcher, Ethica Odini, Convoys to Nothingness, Thoughts Like Hammers, Roots of the Mountain, Isa... all just brilliant...
The back up vocals is one of the main reasons why I listen to this band. He is so monotone but in such and awesome way. I dont even know what to call his singing :O
I have huge respect for enslaved, they always get better with each release and in real life they're super chill guys, none of that corpse paint shit, none of the goofy halloween decorations. Just some metal veterans giving a great fucking show.
Really nice detailing of the band's musical endeavours over the past few years. Boy I'm happy to find someone having exactly same thoughts and the implied comparison to Opeth. \m/
Impressive. Word is, this is the metal album of 2012 by many critics. Well it certainly is a helluva lot more thought provoking than say, Pig Destroyer or Gojira. Enslaved have come a long way and have always peaked my interest. Great track!
5:31 is probably the most spine shivering, atmospheric storm of emotions, seriously this is amazing man. I used to dislike the vocals but they've grown on me so much! Enslaved officially are badass to me
holy fuck. this band is amazing. you know over the 20 plus years i've been into metal so many bands have gone commercial, stagnent or just plain shit (the latest morbid angel being the prime example) but ENSLAVED remain a shining beacon. always staying true to themselves and their art. pre-ordered without a second thought.
When I was 17-18 (back in 2000) I loved Enslaved's viking sound. Then around 2005 I grew out of it and stopped listening to their classic albums. Re heard them with Riitiir and absolutely loved them again. This song is intoxicatingly good, even if the lyrics are weird.
Well, I love their albums ELD, Below the Lights and Monumension the most but maybe it's best to start with RUUN; it has fantastic lyrics and very catchy sound (songs Ruun, Esence, Api-Vat and a brilliant song titled Tides of Chaos). Also album Frost is a viking black metal classic if you like old, dark and ugly stuff. You can't miss with Enslaved. :)
Enslaved is no fucking Opeth they have their OWN sound no one sounds like them.Yes they used to be black metal band but have evolved into what they are now and thats 1 of the best bands there is on the planet.
I love so many of their songs but this one is just so fucking dirty and epic and magical and beautiful all in the same song. The chorus that kicks in after the dirty heavy beginning is so uplifting and epic, it blows my mind no matter how many times I hear it. I love it so much.
I love this song so fuckin much. I love so many of their songs but this one is just so fucking dirty and epic and magical and beautiful all in the same song. The chorus that kicks in after the dirty heavy beginning is so uplifting and epic, it blows my mind no matter how many times I hear it. I love it so much.
This is probably the finest example of their music for the past 5 years or so. The further back you go it sounds slightly more black metal influence over all. Nevertheless, every single album from Mardraum to today are more progressive in style (My personal favorites being Monumension and Isa) A few songs i recommend are The Voices, The Crossing, Isa, Entroper, and The Clouds. Though you cant go wrong with any of their songs. Hope that helps.
i love Enslaved vocals. There was many moments on the Vertebrae album where there was awesome black metal moments that lead to almost Pink Floyd like atmospheric vocals. No other band is like Enslaved.
Nuclear Blast Records Can I get it in the Itunes Store? I'd like to have a copy on my Iphone. If not, I will be satisfied with that brilliant album in the traditional CD presentation, as I gonna buy it next time i get in my local retailer, who brings all your stuff to the city.
It's very representative of what they've been doing for the past decade or so. They've been around for about 20 years - started as a pretty straightforward black metal band but their sound has gradually changed (evolved or sold out depending on who you talk to).like a black metal version of Opeth (which they're compared to quite often)
Hi, i don't know what music you like but you should listen to Blodhemn which is very direct and melodic too, 38 minutes of viking fury ! In the others hands there is RIITIIR (the lastest) which is their best album since the beginning of the 2000's decade. RIITIIR synthesize what the band proposed during these years with the add of a furious dimension close to Blodhemn. You should check the songs Roots In The Mountain and RIITIIR, their best songs from the latest album. Sorry if my english is bad
It's funny how metalheads are so worried about bands going 'Mainstream" or "Commercial." First of all there is nothing commercial or mainstream about this. It is just slower and there is more clean vocals. I personally am not surprised at Enslaved's direction it's been surfacing since albums before if you didn't notice. I personally dig it because it has a lot of feel to it, and I dig the riffs. However I was more stoked on the EP's released right before this album.
another thing, what you described as black metal is actually "second-wave black metal" or more common known as "norwegian black metal". original black metal bands (first-wave) never had any blast-beats, or high-pitch screams. they had heavy or thrash metal sounds. search for mercyful fate, celtic frost, bathory, venom. and even the most popular (second-wave) norwegian bands are affected by non-black metal genres. dimmu borgir is highly symphonic. emperor started with sypmhonic/classical elements
(cont.) there are avant-garde black metal bands (deathspell omega, blut aus nord), post-black metal bands (fen, alcest), and many more. some of them are more close to the clasic *pure* second-wave sound. and some of them are more distant. but they're all black metal. whether you like it or not.
An excellent song, I like the direction Enslaved have taken with this album. If you like this check out Roots of the Mountain, song number 4 from Riitir. Possibly the best metal song of 2012 regardless of genre.
I'd really like to see Enslaved releasing a new music video with art similar as in the video of Essence. Ethica Odini was pretty good too to be honest.
Listen to them. It's evolution. The tracks from album to album are more and more, deeper and deeper-- though that's not to say that the old shit didn't have depth, but these guys have faced the music and conquered it again and again. If they had sold out you would hear it. Listen, and you will hear it's genuine.
i already said there are exceptions. it may change from band to band, song to song. but look at the majority, more than %90 of the bands have lyrics according to their genres.
Enslaved don't like being labeled black metal, but prefer the term "extreme metal". Seeing as their lyrics have never been about the occult, Satanism, or any real dark subject matter, Black Metal is not a fitting term for them. Most of their lyrics have dealt with Norse Mythology, so even Viking Metal is more apt than Black Metal.
moremetalthanyou71 True. But it's difficult questio because, Viking metal can be considered as a subgenre of black metal as well. In this case, i understand some people label them "black metal". For instance, Bathory, who included occult, satanism stuff in their beginning, is become a viking metal band (with norse mythology) but always considered as a black metal band (first wave). I think it depends of our feelings, vision about metal, For me it's a black metal band who belongs to Viking metal subgenre. So, anyway, Enslaved is a good band, but in my opinion, they sould reduce their choir, it slow down the music, and sometime i'm boring. No offence to the fan RIITIIR. I'm not saying i don't like it, but it's not my favorite albulm from them. I was really enjoy "vertebrae". After this one i was less enjoyed by the following albums. But Enslaved stays an exellent band. Long live to them.
moremetalthanyou71 Listening to Enslaved, I would think of them as progressive. They're heavy as hell, but their style goes beyond the restraints of being black or extreme metal. Their music will have fast chaotic moments and then shift speeds to slow and dark with some light clean passages in there (keyboards). Hope I'm making sense. That's what I loved about them. I almost turned them off at the start, thinking it was just like every other black metal band I've heard, but at the :44 mark, I'm like Holy Shit! This works for me. By the way, just bought In Times, it's the best. Rock on.
Mr. Schneider Yeah I bought the In Times limited edition bundle with the wood box, T-shirt, Cd, poster...blah blah blah. I grew up on the first wave of Black metal eg Venom. Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost. I really didn't start to warm up to the second wave until Satyricon's The Pentagram Burns album. And then I went backwards with them, and then I got Immortal's Sons of Northern Darkness, from there I got turned onto Emperor, from there I got into Enslaved. I like Black metal bands that really evolve and grow, like Emperor, Satyricon, and Enslaved, Bathory. They're really quite adventurous musicians. And I love that they break from the confines of traditional song writing(verse, pre chorus, chorus etc.). I would like to eventually get some on Ihsahn solo stuff(ex-emperor) because it's quite musically adventurous and bold as well. I really like Gaahl with Gorgoroth as well. He's got one of the best vocals in Black metal. I have a hard time with Mayhem, because I like the music, but they just keep getting such terrible vocalist(even by black metal standards). Godseed(Gaahl's new band) sounds pretty interesting too.
moremetalthanyou71 I am really getting bands like Enslaved because of their complex music structures. I would appreciate further information on other bands like them that I can check out. I see you gave me a little bit of a start in your last post. Come across anything new, please let me know. Thanx.
I miss this lineup. The new guys are still really good, but there was just something so quintessential and precise about the 2004-2016 era of the band, from Isa to In Times.
Me too. They always have a great sound, but this was their peak
One of my Favorite Black Metal bands of all time, Even though I think their progression has went beyond the genre of Black Metal \m/
Saw Enslaved last night at The Fleece, Bristol in UK. What an awesome gig! It was a truly magical, spellbinding performance. The Watcher, Ethica Odini, Convoys to Nothingness, Thoughts Like Hammers, Roots of the Mountain, Isa... all just brilliant...
i know, it's 8 years, but what a setlist!
And none of those songs sound anything alike. All gold in their own unique ways
The back up vocals is one of the main reasons why I listen to this band. He is so monotone but in such and awesome way. I dont even know what to call his singing :O
He uses lack of vibrato to his creative advantage. I love it.
I have huge respect for enslaved, they always get better with each release and in real life they're super chill guys, none of that corpse paint shit, none of the goofy halloween decorations. Just some metal veterans giving a great fucking show.
Really nice detailing of the band's musical endeavours over the past few years. Boy I'm happy to find someone having exactly same thoughts and the implied comparison to Opeth. \m/
Whatever genre is this, all I care is how awesome it is.
Impressive. Word is, this is the metal album of 2012 by many critics. Well it certainly is a helluva lot more thought provoking than say, Pig Destroyer or Gojira. Enslaved have come a long way and have always peaked my interest. Great track!
maybe the best song of the entire 2010's right there with king of days by high on fire
5:31 is probably the most spine shivering, atmospheric storm of emotions, seriously this is amazing man. I used to dislike the vocals but they've grown on me so much! Enslaved officially are badass to me
Progressive Black Metal. It's awesome.
I love the prog 70's like style they've started to bring in, evolve and prosper since vertebrae!
Elucidated, Burned, Afraid... i like this chorus!!!
5:33 begins the most incredible minute of music I think I've ever heard.
holy fuck. this band is amazing. you know over the 20 plus years i've been into metal so many bands have gone commercial, stagnent or just plain shit (the latest morbid angel being the prime example) but ENSLAVED remain a shining beacon. always staying true to themselves and their art. pre-ordered without a second thought.
When I was 17-18 (back in 2000) I loved Enslaved's viking sound. Then around 2005 I grew out of it and stopped listening to their classic albums. Re heard them with Riitiir and absolutely loved them again. This song is intoxicatingly good, even if the lyrics are weird.
8:10 One of the most epic things I've heard in my life.
Ikr, those double kicks come in but it stays more subdued, that really gives that part a memorable sound.
Well, I love their albums ELD, Below the Lights and Monumension the most but maybe it's best to start with RUUN; it has fantastic lyrics and very catchy sound (songs Ruun, Esence, Api-Vat and a brilliant song titled Tides of Chaos). Also album Frost is a viking black metal classic if you like old, dark and ugly stuff. You can't miss with Enslaved. :)
enslaved does it again. an amazing piece of art. i'm fucking glad i was able to live during the enslaved era
Enslaved is no fucking Opeth they have their OWN sound no one sounds like them.Yes they used to be black metal band but have evolved into what they are now and thats 1 of the best bands there is on the planet.
well their music is like magic...
Totally agree, what does it really matter is that Enslaved is out ther doing great music for us to enjoy.
The snare sound on the band's latest releases make me love them a lot.
Herbrand voice is beautiful
Love it when it gets to 4:30
"Motion Remains Our Mothertoooooonge
Failure Might Not Be Whaat it seems"
whoa theres a nice mixup of genres within one song! prog, doom, slug ... and its still a precise kickass
...And who cares it's black metal or not? this is simply beautiful and powerful.
The ever evolving Enslaved. Keep doing what you're doing, guys.
My best black metal band
so excited to see them next friday. Hoping to cop this album while i'm there
for me, this is the best enslaved ever! :) Something for every1? :)
I love so many of their songs but this one is just so fucking dirty and epic and magical and beautiful all in the same song. The chorus that kicks in after the dirty heavy beginning is so uplifting and epic, it blows my mind no matter how many times I hear it. I love it so much.
I love this song so fuckin much. I love so many of their songs but this one is just so fucking dirty and epic and magical and beautiful all in the same song. The chorus that kicks in after the dirty heavy beginning is so uplifting and epic, it blows my mind no matter how many times I hear it. I love it so much.
The growls are very good as well!
only quorthon knows how many times i listen to this in a day! very excited to the new album!
This is probably the finest example of their music for the past 5 years or so. The further back you go it sounds slightly more black metal influence over all. Nevertheless, every single album from Mardraum to today are more progressive in style (My personal favorites being Monumension and Isa) A few songs i recommend are The Voices, The Crossing, Isa, Entroper, and The Clouds. Though you cant go wrong with any of their songs. Hope that helps.
Live just as good as on CD
my goal in life is to see them live. please come to australia already!!!
i love Enslaved vocals. There was many moments on the Vertebrae album where there was awesome black metal moments that lead to almost Pink Floyd like atmospheric vocals. No other band is like Enslaved.
incredibly beautiful, cant wait for release
New Enslaved listener chiming in.
Not fond of the lyrics, but man, PHAT sound!
Also love the lyrical play too.
I'm hooked!
Regardless of whether you like this song or not, no one can argue that this song actually sounds like Black Metal.
Nuclear Blast Records Can I get it in the Itunes Store? I'd like to have a copy on my Iphone. If not, I will be satisfied with that brilliant album in the traditional CD presentation, as I gonna buy it next time i get in my local retailer, who brings all your stuff to the city.
Thats ART!So much better then the shit most other Black Metal Bands do.
It's very representative of what they've been doing for the past decade or so. They've been around for about 20 years - started as a pretty straightforward black metal band but their sound has gradually changed (evolved or sold out depending on who you talk to).like a black metal version of Opeth (which they're compared to quite often)
Completly agreed. Those kids will never learn.
True. Progressive is a genre of its own merit, it's impossible for bands to be alike in such a vastly influential genre.
Like their high point I reckon....Below the Lights and all that are great obvs
Enslaved have always been ok for me... Now they're awesome!
fantastic song and deep lyrics
They are coming to norway in april. Can't wait!
I see your originality reflects your intellect.
What are you talking about? This is sweet.
It's not like their old Black Metal stuff, no, but that doesn't mean it sucks.
Hi, i don't know what music you like but you should listen to Blodhemn which is very direct and melodic too, 38 minutes of viking fury ! In the others hands there is RIITIIR (the lastest) which is their best album since the beginning of the 2000's decade. RIITIIR synthesize what the band proposed during these years with the add of a furious dimension close to Blodhemn. You should check the songs Roots In The Mountain and RIITIIR, their best songs from the latest album. Sorry if my english is bad
It's funny how metalheads are so worried about bands going 'Mainstream" or "Commercial." First of all there is nothing commercial or mainstream about this. It is just slower and there is more clean vocals. I personally am not surprised at Enslaved's direction it's been surfacing since albums before if you didn't notice. I personally dig it because it has a lot of feel to it, and I dig the riffs. However I was more stoked on the EP's released right before this album.
What is the time signature of the beat that comes before the clean chorus at 1:48? I am mind fucked
another thing, what you described as black metal is actually "second-wave black metal" or more common known as "norwegian black metal". original black metal bands (first-wave) never had any blast-beats, or high-pitch screams. they had heavy or thrash metal sounds. search for mercyful fate, celtic frost, bathory, venom. and even the most popular (second-wave) norwegian bands are affected by non-black metal genres. dimmu borgir is highly symphonic. emperor started with sypmhonic/classical elements
Would really like to see these guys live. Saw Opeth in 2005 with Dark Tranquility Enslaved should do a tour with Opeth, that would be killer.
Why has it taken me this long to this to this! Now I'm even more pumped to see them, amon amarth, and skeletonwitch in February!
Perfect. Awesome.
Vocals are amazing
(cont.) there are avant-garde black metal bands (deathspell omega, blut aus nord), post-black metal bands (fen, alcest), and many more. some of them are more close to the clasic *pure* second-wave sound. and some of them are more distant. but they're all black metal. whether you like it or not.
Enslaved is Awesome!!!
Bwaaah! Can't wait^^ I'm so looking forward!
Such a great song to introduce Enslave to someone. Very odd and cool.
Who cares it is fkn black metal or not?!? This is fkn' greatness
RIITIIR - best album of 2012
For those about clean vocals, listen to Vintersorg's new album. A masterpiece, as usual. Now Enslaved, I prefer the old times. Cheers!
Where did you hear "core" in this song ???
This is great; I love it! Not exactly what I would expect from Enslaved, but still very good.
An excellent song, I like the direction Enslaved have taken with this album. If you like this check out Roots of the Mountain, song number 4 from Riitir. Possibly the best metal song of 2012 regardless of genre.
Listen to "As Fire Swept Clean The Earth"; that is a very representative song.
I'd really like to see Enslaved releasing a new music video with art similar as in the video of Essence. Ethica Odini was pretty good too to be honest.
Better than ever.
oh, it will change your life. them live...it's magical.
Songs pretty good, pumped for roots of the mountain btw
I love that progressive way of Enslaved... They are so fucking better on each more album... In my opinion, this is the best CD of 2012...
Don't know what you're talking about, I just came to get stoned and watch the video
awesome song for sure :)
Listen to them. It's evolution. The tracks from album to album are more and more, deeper and deeper-- though that's not to say that the old shit didn't have depth, but these guys have faced the music and conquered it again and again. If they had sold out you would hear it.
Listen, and you will hear it's genuine.
Fuck i love that riff
i already said there are exceptions. it may change from band to band, song to song. but look at the majority, more than %90 of the bands have lyrics according to their genres.
Me too. I have to read along to most lyrics--- even Zack from Rage sometimes confuses me. Glad I'm not the only one, was feeling stupid about it lol
You’ll never hear 2:18 for the first time again 🥲
Sounds fucking awesome, Enslaved continues to create exception music as always \,,/
I usually don't like black metal but this is awesome!
Enslaved don't like being labeled black metal, but prefer the term "extreme metal". Seeing as their lyrics have never been about the occult, Satanism, or any real dark subject matter, Black Metal is not a fitting term for them. Most of their lyrics have dealt with Norse Mythology, so even Viking Metal is more apt than Black Metal.
moremetalthanyou71 True. But it's difficult questio because, Viking metal can be considered as a subgenre of black metal as well. In this case, i understand some people label them "black metal". For instance, Bathory, who included occult, satanism stuff in their beginning, is become a viking metal band (with norse mythology) but always considered as a black metal band (first wave).
I think it depends of our feelings, vision about metal,
For me it's a black metal band who belongs to Viking metal subgenre.
So, anyway, Enslaved is a good band, but in my opinion, they sould reduce their choir, it slow down the music, and sometime i'm boring. No offence to the fan RIITIIR. I'm not saying i don't like it, but it's not my favorite albulm from them. I was really enjoy "vertebrae". After this one i was less enjoyed by the following albums. But Enslaved stays an exellent band. Long live to them.
moremetalthanyou71 Listening to Enslaved, I would think of them as progressive. They're heavy as hell, but their style goes beyond the restraints of being black or extreme metal. Their music will have fast chaotic moments and then shift speeds to slow and dark with some light clean passages in there (keyboards). Hope I'm making sense. That's what I loved about them. I almost turned them off at the start, thinking it was just like every other black metal band I've heard, but at the :44 mark, I'm like Holy Shit! This works for me. By the way, just bought In Times, it's the best. Rock on.
Mr. Schneider Yeah I bought the In Times limited edition bundle with the wood box, T-shirt, Cd, poster...blah blah blah. I grew up on the first wave of Black metal eg Venom. Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost. I really didn't start to warm up to the second wave until Satyricon's The Pentagram Burns album. And then I went backwards with them, and then I got Immortal's Sons of Northern Darkness, from there I got turned onto Emperor, from there I got into Enslaved. I like Black metal bands that really evolve and grow, like Emperor, Satyricon, and Enslaved, Bathory. They're really quite adventurous musicians. And I love that they break from the confines of traditional song writing(verse, pre chorus, chorus etc.). I would like to eventually get some on Ihsahn solo stuff(ex-emperor) because it's quite musically adventurous and bold as well. I really like Gaahl with Gorgoroth as well. He's got one of the best vocals in Black metal. I have a hard time with Mayhem, because I like the music, but they just keep getting such terrible vocalist(even by black metal standards). Godseed(Gaahl's new band) sounds pretty interesting too.
moremetalthanyou71 I am really getting bands like Enslaved because of their complex music structures. I would appreciate further information on other bands like them that I can check out. I see you gave me a little bit of a start in your last post. Come across anything new, please let me know. Thanx.
3:11 What happened to afraid? :)
This IS Black Metal... Progressive Black Metal.
Can't get enough of that Slug.
Enslaved sound so soft and relaxing these days...... and please this is not black metal at all.
Eld and Blodhemn are their best work.
very good, it has sth deep
Awesone
Yeah, not sold on the story, but I like the way the melodic harmony plays off the rough as vocals.
this is getting in sh+t their own glorious black metal past
questo è mandare in mona il proprio glorioso passato black metal
we love you.(from İstanbul-Turkey)
Epic.
It's strange that you would answer a time signature question that specifically, only to ask why it matters.
Indeed!
I would love to see a release similar to Vikingligr Veldi. I fucking LOVE that album
this is incredibly awesome, really is fucking catchy, but in the nice way!
Fucking awesome show, Enslaved and Pallbearer tore it up