Enslaved

[ElectricWiz]

I've been on a massive Enslaved kick lately. Does anybody else like them here? Ruun, the new one, is just fantastic, and really the last three have all been stunning and groundbreaking: Below The Lights, ISA, Ruun. To me they sound like a mix between the first two Mercyful Fate records, a bunch of black metal stuff, Opeth, and more traditional metal e.g. Priest, Maiden etc. Just pure freaking metal.

Highly recommended if you don't know them. They'd appeal to Opeth fans, methinks, but have a real old-school edge that is hard to describe. Really they somehow encompass the whole of the metal spectrum on their albums.....death vocals found here if you can't stand that be warned (but not exclusively). But I'm hard pressed to come up with a more forward thinking, progressive metal band (as I type this anyway).

Anyway, Enslaved. I like the new one better than Ghost Reveries, which kind of lacked something for me somehow. It was great, but just didn't quite meet my extremely high opinion of Opeth.

Enslaved is one of the best metal bands today!!!! Thought I'd mention them since I don't hear about them much here.....

 

[KMADD]

I like there newer material their old stuff although good was hard to understand because they sung their songs in Norwegian much like Dimmu Borgir did on thier first 2 cds. Yeah you would get a better response in the
gen. metal discussion forum there are more black and death metal fans on that board.

 

[SoundMaster]

Being that I love Opeth & My Dying Bride, I should check these fellas out.

I heard their "Frost' album over a decade ago and wasn't impressed. But that was pure black metal...much different from what they apparently do today.

Ever since I read Enslaved say that the "Omnio" album by fellow Norwegian band In The Woods was among their favorite records ever, I've been intrigued. I just never managed to seek them out (yet).

 

[Evil?]

I dig 'em

 

[ElectricWiz]

Being that I love Opeth & My Dying Bride, I should check these fellas out.

I heard their "Frost' album over a decade ago and wasn't impressed. But that was pure black metal...much different from what they apparently do today.

Ever since I read Enslaved say that the "Omnio" album by fellow Norwegian band In The Woods was among their favorite records ever, I've been intrigued. I just never managed to seek them out (yet).

If you get one, get ISA or RUUN. Ruun is under $8 on iTunes Soundmaster, so you could get it with little trouble or cost (though I actually think ISA is the best place to start). First minute or so you might wonder what the big deal is. By the end you'll be into it, and probably waaaay into it at that. There are King Crimson elements (seriously), Opeth elements, Priest elements, folk elements, and of course the black metal elements, plus a million more things. They are stunning.

 

[Under The Oak]

Haven't heard their new stuff, but Frost and Eld are absolute classics.

 

[Priest of Evil]

Everything before Frost was great, they went downhill from there IMO but I havent kept up with them for a some time now, mabye id like it....