Enslaved vs. Negura Bunget

I must go with Enslaved

I have yet to find any NB album other than OM that I like, but OM is my favourite metal album so NB wins. Enslaved is excellent though. 

^ They have English lyrics for some of their albums on the official website. 

Enslaved for their choice to turn more prog that BM

Enslaved, easily. Negura Bunget is interesting, but the string of Enslaved's 11 albums from 'Vikingligr' to 'Axioma...' is really amazing. Almost unprecedented in terms of length, depth and that whole "something-new-every-album" kind of thing.....at least in the Norwegian black and post-black metal world...


Edited by slipperman - November 24 2010 at 16:30

Although I'm a fan of NB, I must say my favourite is Enslaved, at least they are much more closer to the prog in common sense as the 70's prog. But NB has their unique dark and atmospheric sound that makes them quite perfect.

Originally posted by harmonium.ro I have yet to find any NB album other than OM that I like, but OM is my favourite metal album so NB wins. Enslaved is excellent though.

have you heard Vîrstele Pamîntului yet?


I voted Negura Bunget too

strange, I like it better than OM 

Originally posted by harmonium.ro Originally posted by Triceratopsoil strange, I like it better than OM  I can see that; it's more accessible IMO and the stuff that I don't like comes from the fact that I'm Romanian and I understand the lyrics and what they're trying to go at conceptually.

What are they trying to go at? Why don't you like it?

Originally posted by Anthony H. Originally posted by harmonium.ro Originally posted by Triceratopsoil strange, I like it better than OM  I can see that; it's more accessible IMO and the stuff that I don't like comes from the fact that I'm Romanian and I understand the lyrics and what they're trying to go at conceptually. What are they trying to go at? Why don't you like it?

Well, it seems to me that the guy that was left as the leader of the band (not the creative force before the split, at all) understood that a lot of the success came from the integration of the mysterious bits of traditional folk culture with the metal music, but he doesn't know how to do it. The lyrics are a flat, in your face attempt at peasant poetry, lacking any finesse. It's so obvious that they're trying hard and overdoing it that it's embarassing. The folk music elements are also stuffed there all over the place just to have them, a show-off lacking structural logic. Overall it's very artificial and forced. It's still good, like I said, but it's a pale imitation of what was before.


Edited by harmonium.ro - January 19 2011 at 20:12