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Enslaved

Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

3.27 | 63 ratings

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Bonnek
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Enslaved finally decided to produce an album professionally and it pays. This is Frost revisited with a blasting production: raw, crisp, sharp but also well balanced and powerful.

After the Nordic epic black metal of Eld, Enslaved returned to the shorter and more furious format of their defining album Frost. As with all the best of black metal, the music has a big majestic impact bound to entrance you with its relentless drone. The extremely aggressive Urtical Gods serves as an example and will bludgeon everyone who cares to listen with an open mind.

As an album this suffers from the well known metal syndrome called "Hey that sounds cool! Let's do that trick on every bar of every song we write on all our albums". It makes most tracks unnecessary except for a few gems like the mentioned Urtical Gods, Eit Auga Til Mimir, Blodhemn and the epic Nordic folk of Suttings Mjod.

After the next album, Enslaved grew into a progressive black metal unit that will be more pleasing to the people who spend their lives here. For me, they lost something in the process. Except for the chilling ISA, Enslaved gradually lost their edge in the next decade. Well they had a bit too much edge here! The next album Mardraum would loosen things a bit and perfect this style.

Bonnek | 3/5 | 2010-2-5

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