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Enslaved Album: “Enslaved”
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Release Date:2002-08-27
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Metal
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Label:Import
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:7035538882296
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| Track Listing : |
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| 1 |
Living Beneath The Hammer |
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| 2 |
Winter's Night |
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| 3 |
Fires Of Midgard |
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| 4 |
Heimdallr Video |
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| 5 |
Norvegr (instrumental) |
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Review - :
Released in 1994 via the recently deceased {$Euronymous}' {@Deathlike Silence} label, {$Enslaved}'s five-song full-length debut, {^Vikingligr Veldi}, followed fast upon the previous years' seminal split with {$Emperor}, {^Hordanes Land}, and proved that, along with their fellow countrymen, {$Enslaved} were ready to carry on the torch of Norwegian {\black metal} beyond the shocking demise of its original ringleader. Significantly, {$Enslaved}'s calling was to create Viking {\metal} devoted to retelling Norway's legends and traditions of old -- not attacking Christianity by means of its own creation: Satan. Makes sense, doesn't it? What's more, all lyrics were scripted in either ancient forms of Norwegian or Icelandic (!), with many melodies being borrowed from ethnic {\Scandinavian folk} music to lend additional authenticity to the vicious, fast-paced {\black metal}, which naturally comprised the bulk of {^Vikingligr Veldi}'s sonic makeup. Epic in the extreme, all but one of its five cuts eclipse the ten-minute mark (that being the singularly brutal {&"Heimdallr"} -- a paean to the golden-toothed Norse god of light), with opener {&"Lifandi Liv Undir Hamri"} admittedly overstaying its welcome somewhat due to an increasingly irksome synthesizer loop. The ensuing {&"Vetrarnótt"} narrowly avoids the same fate thanks to a wider variety of guitar melodies to counter the repetitious riffing cycles at hand, and the {$Tolkien}-bordering {&"Midgards Eldar"} (he, too, took inspiration from Norse source materials for his mythology of Middle Earth) benefits from the slow-building grandeur of its intro and the unexpected insertion of space-age synth bleeps and squeaks into its midsection. Closing instrumental {&"Norvegr"} is a little harder to defend, but is definitely no stinker, and certainly brings a less violent, more contemplative finale to an album that stands the test of time, for the most part, and remains of crucial importance to the {\black metal} genre. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
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