Enslaved - Ruun

[Crimson Death]

Still great but album of the year is Ashes Against The Grain for fucking sure.

also, ISA sucked totally.

 

[Ellestin]

album of the year is Ashes Against The Grain

Which supremacy shall yet be severely shaken by new Colour Haze, rest assured.

 

[Crimson Death]

Which supremacy shall yet be severely shaken by new Colour Haze, rest assured.

I have never heard them so I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain that won't happen.

 

[Henrik Main]

A brief summary of Enslaved's discography:

Yggdrasill = Raw, killer

Hordanes Land = Kickass, excellent shit

Vikingligr Veldi = AWESOME, their best work

Frost = Kicks severe amounts of butt

Eld = Even better than Frost

Blodhemn = Excellent, almost as good as Frost

Mardraum = Solid stuff, but their older stuff is slightly better

Monumension = Weird and proggy, but it still kicks ass, even though it's a tad weaker than Mardraum

Below The Lights = Don't like this at all, by far their worst. Too much weird disonnant shit going on

Isa = A million steps up from BTL. It's impossible not to worship tracks such as Neogenesis, Secrets Of The Flesh, Ascension and the title track.

RUUN = Epic as feck, awesome shit, probably their best since Blodhemn. I remember when JayK came out of the closet and said he didn' like this at all. Fag

 

[General Zod]

I may have to revisit "Isa" on my iPod, with the title track Puke deleted.

Zod

 

[Ellestin]

A brief summary of Enslaved's discography:

Yggdrasill = for completists only

Hordanes Land = good, better than the Emperor side

Vikingligr Veldi = keeps getting better but too much jollyfolk

Frost = best raw-era Enslaved album by FAR

Eld = not as good as "Frost" by FAR (a couple tracks among their best though)

Blodhemn = good but not really essential

Mardraum = Solid stuff, but their older stuff is slightly better

Monumension = Weird and proggy, but it still kicks ass, hey, it's their best album so what do you expect?

Below The Lights = a step down from "Monumension" but retains the dark quality and the metal songwriting

Isa = crap

RUUN = more crap

All fixed up and true as truth

 

[MFJ]

And Masterpiece of Bitterness is just a bit above average.

Riiiiiiiight... so how many times have you listened to it fully and actually tried to understand it? It took me about five times before I even started to like it, now it's basically sharing the #1 spot with a few others for my favorite album.

 

[J.]

Riiiiiiiight... so how many times have you listened to it fully and actually tried to understand it? It took me about five times before I even started to like it, now it's basically sharing the #1 spot with a few others for my favorite album.

more than five, rest assured.

and jollyfolk in vikingligr veldi? liking prog enslaved more than seminal early enslaved? this forum gets pinker by the day

 

[Demonspell]

I think I agree with Henrik's catalog assessment more, even if BTL is still my favorite of the prog albums, it wins by not shitting on the albums with three letter titles...

 

[J.]

i was actually surprised at liking Ruun quite a bit. ill now need to go back to Isa.

and yeah, Henrik pretty much nailed it, though id change a few things. he got their best album right.

 

[Climb Thar Hill]

ISA did not grab me by the balls like I expected it to. It's a good album, but surely it falls short of amazing.


Meanwhile, Masterpiece of Bitterness > yuo

 

[JayKeeley]

Isa is plain rubbish. That's the "Soundtrack to my Escape" of their downfall.

And Ellestin nailed it like a hole in one! (Except for Vikingligr comments...that one plus Monumension are my two faves now).

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

So what can I expect from Enslaved live?

 

[JayKeeley]

So what can I expect from Enslaved live?

Don't know -- I've seen bits of the live DVD and it is EXCELLENT. I would love to see this band live. *praying that they make HC2*

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

apparently I get to see them live, along with Vreid and Zyklon in september

 

[JayKeeley]

apparently I get to see them live, along with Vreid and Zyklon in september

what

am I missing a North American tour or something? Have you got dates, because I would kill to see Enslaved and Vreid on the same bill.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

http://www.trinityconcerts.de/store...9x22934&session=44c6659b59964ebf&L=ger&P=1804



edit: sorry to get your boner/hopes up

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

so I just listened to Vreid (d/led Kraft) for the first time, this is some good shit

 

[JayKeeley]

so I just listened to Vreid (d/led Kraft) for the first time, this is some good shit

No no no....you're doing it all wrong homey....

STEP ONE: TURN VOLUME TO MAX

STEP TWO: SKIP TO FINAL TRACK "SONGEN ET FANGEN"

STEP THREE: PRESS PLAY

STEP FOUR: HEAD EXPLODES THROUGH UTTER LEVELS OF AWESOMENESS

STEP FIVE: KILL YOURSELF BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS IT GETS

 

[Henrik Main]

So what can I expect from Enslaved live?

kickass music executed flawlessly

seen em twice

STEP FIVE: KILL YOURSELF BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS IT GETS

Unholy Water is much better iirc