Enslaved - Isa

i am totally looking forward to it.

I should dust off Monumension, which I for some reason never played much.

Haven't heard a lot from Arcturus lately - anything new on that front?

ARCTURUS Sign With SEASON OF MIST; New Album To Arrive In August - Jan. 17, 2005
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=31640

That's what I thought when I heard the Jesu record!

It's playing on Sirius' Hard Attack, too, which means it'll chart, whatever that means.

The last deftones record was total SHOEGAZE.

dig below the lights a fair sight more than isa. i mean isa has its place and all, but it has too many bit which are just self-consciously slooooow. i really like how below the lights consistently grooves like a motherfucker, has ambient slow bits here and there for good measure, but speeds up whenever necessary to lend variety and general excitement to the songs.

Isa is the first time Enslaved made a record that was a disappointment compared to the one before it. Lots of this can be chalked up to the loss of drummer Dirge Rep.

Nate, that is exactly my reaction. though i've since downloaded it again and it's grown on me a little.

i never listen to enslaved. i don't know why. i like them fine. what's wrong with me? there is a lot to like in all their incarnations. sorry, nothing to add!

was listening to Ruun this morning. Underrated imo. Thoughts? Enslaved does great title tracks. I was almost tempted to start (or search for) a thread about great title tracks.

Ruun really grew on me in a way that Isa never did. That may be because I bought it on vinyl...

i think it was you who mentioned the drum triggers used on Isa in another thread, and I hadn't really noticed how bad the drums sound on that album until reading that. now when i listen to it i don't hear anything BUT the bad drums. :( damn you!

i wish they would re-record Isa, because there is some epic great shit on there.

I've just got their latest, having hardly heard them before, and I think it's really really good.

yuh it's aweeeesome, soundtrack for pwning aussies

fuck yeah louis i am happy u r listening to htis

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hoos I am now listening to the new Agalloch!! giving all the big metal + hip-hop albums a go b4 voting in year-end polls iirc

Enslaved album was killah

i need to get the new agalloch still! they are one of my faves

man this is extremely good music, little more to be said except that it's even more epic than usual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGOHk2J4jV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGOHk2J4jV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGOHk2J4jV4

this song tbh

"thoughts like hammers"

This band is frigging amazing. That is all.

No doubt, though I consider Isa to be one of the few missteps in their entire catalog.

I've never heard it! Just reviving a band-themed thread... Still working my way through it all, but I just got Monumension today and it's really doing it for me. And Eld blew me away last week. And Vikingligr Veldi and Hordanes Land the week or so before that. I think it's time for Frost next.

I just have Ruun and Vertebrae and like them both a lot.

They're all great. My only issue with ISA is in the production. The songs/vision are fantastic.

I'm a huge fan of the Mardraum / Monumension / Below the Lights era.

Eld has the weird combination of awesome drumming and a completely shit drum sound.

haha nate totally in character here!

Eld is my fave for sure

I remember playing Ethica Odini to Siegbran in soundrop and his reaction was "what happened to these guys :( "

Eld is amazing, but I kinda agree with Siegbran. Then again I hated Isa at first and eventually came around to it.

Hammerheart1981 3 years ago
Enslaved thx for do Real Metal!!!!

Eld is their best one IMO

I can see myself listening to Eld with great frequency, but Vikingligr Veldi... I feel like that's gotta be #1. It may even be my favorite of the early '90s Norwegian canon (that I've heard).

I'm a huge fan of the Mardraum / Monumension / Below the Lights era.

Interestingly enough, these are literally the only three albums of theirs I haven't heard. Given your endoresement, might be time to fix that.

What did ppl think of the EP that was released for free through the Scion website?

Got Vertebrae for €0.20 today in a library sale. I know I like Isa so... nice.

I've been in an Enslaved mood lately. Re-listened to Eld, Isa, Below the Lights and now Monumension. Great band. Need to catch up with the post-Isa stuff, I think.

hunt them down, bring them to silence, my will is the law

What's their best album? The only one I have is Axomia.

"what is the best enslaved album" is a question i have been trying to answer for at least five years

Top 3?

vikingligr veldi
eld
monumension

you can't go wrong with any of them though for real. even when i've thought a new enslaved record was boring i'd listen to it later and it'd turn out to be 100 percent awesome

^^^ Yeah with post-Isa Enslaved I seem to be in this cycle where I hear the new album, thinks it's okay but nothing too exciting... and then later I realize its great.

Listening to Axioma Ethica Ghostdini uh Odini right now though and i'm thoroughly enjoying it.

i am in that cycle too -- again with this new one, in times. i think maybe they're just so fucking good they're easy to take for granted

Looking forward to the show in a couple of weeks. With Yob!

i go see them

They were great, I thought. Tons of fun, though too many people left after YOB.

"nauthir bleeding" rules. holy fuck

missed yob. enslaved played the opening trax of 'below the lights' which is mostly all i cared about. and 'the watcher' :B despite the small crowd and bad sound they still poured it on, cool dudes

Didnt we poll all the Enslaved albums a while back?

If the cheapest copy I can find of Vikingligr Veldi is a thrashed one for $20 (and it starts at $200+ on Amazon) it might be time for a reissue.

On CD, I mean, the LP is readily available.

Has that album ever been remastered?

Looks like all the single disc VV reissues were represses but not remastered. Just discovered there's a 2cd VV/Hordanes Land reissue that claims to be remastered from 2004 on Candlelight though.

Christ on a bike do those original pressings really go for the crazy prices that Ebay/Discogs suggests? I’ve got moving boxes full of black and doom metal CDs I bought in the early 90s.

Dude it's a crazy world out there. I remember seeing some Abigor original CD go for ridiculous money. I mean I like Abigor but not for $88 and it's a CD who gives a shit

http://www.discogs.com/Abigor-Verw%C3%BCstung-Invoke-The-Dark-Age/release/368944

the singer in me can't listen to "Entrance-Escape" without cringing at how off-pitch the harmonies are (due to the lower voice being flat as fuq)....but otherwise Mardraum RULES>...

seeing them in a few weeks. mostly going for Wolves in the Throne Room, who I missed last year, but i've started to get heavily into Enslaved in recent years.

Khemmis is fun too.