“‘Enslaved’ is a pretty good description of the sound. It’s an abstraction, it doesn’t really deal with everyday frustrations or teenage heartbreak. It’s more of a summary of life lived over 30 years, like the human experience.”Ivar Bjørnson In Norse mythology, when the great and terrible Ragnarök arrives to lay waste to the Nine Realms, the gods will know the hour has come when Heimdall blows the Gjallarhorn to rally the warriors to the final battle. Heimdal, the 16th album from Enslaved, opens with the sound of Heimdall’s fabled horn – and the god who guards the Bifröst bridge casts a long shadow over Enslaved’s career. The track Heimdallr appeared on their 1994 debut album, Vikingligr Veldi.
“That was one of the first songs we wrote, and it was even…
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