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Old 10-21-2010, 10:17 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So I just got the new Enslaved album, Axioma Ethica Odini. It's pretty awesome. The opening track is amazing. The Beacon and Nightsight are the two songs that I love off the album.

Just wondering if anyone else on here got it and if you did, what did you think of it?
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Old 10-21-2010, 10:23 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Absolutely fucking stellar album from start to finish. I was worried that they would have trouble topping Vertebrae (2008) but they truly went above and beyond in terms of sound, style, and song writing. Enslaved are truly masters of the progressive sound they have been exploring since 2003's Below The Lights and are not afraid to explore the softer elements of progressive rock and mix it with their black metal origins. It makes me happy to see that it kicked The National's High Violet (2010) from the number 1 spot on RYM for highest rated album of 2010 with only 115 votes compared to 2,565.
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Enslaved is just soooo fricken good. Few band are able to tie together as many different musical strains as seamlessly as these dudes. "Axioma Ethica Odini" Anybody that likes Yes and Mastodon needs to here this!
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Enslaved is just soooo fricken good. Few band are able to tie together as many different musical strains as seamlessly as these dudes. "Axioma Ethica Odini" Anybody that likes Yes and Mastodon needs to here this!
Really? Guess I'll have to give this a spin.
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Really? Guess I'll have to give this a spin.
Dude. It's totally worth the buy...or download. whatever you prefer, but the point is: The album ****ing rules.
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You guys are right, this album's blowing my mind so far. Never listened to Enslaved before but I'm glad I did.
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Go back and start with their 2003 album Below the Lights and work your way up from there. After that you can go and work your way back through their discography, working backwards starting with their 2000 album Mardraum – Beyond the Within.
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I take it they're one of those "gets better with every release" type of bands?
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Enslaved is just soooo fricken good. Few band are able to tie together as many different musical strains as seamlessly as these dudes. "Axioma Ethica Odini" Anybody that likes Yes and Mastodon needs to here this!
What if you like Mastodon but hate Yes?
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Below The Lights is really when they started to focus heavily on their progressive elements, changing it up with each album (as it should be) and never getting dull. They really do mature as musicians over the course of the last decade. Each of their follow albums experiments with different styles, sometimes using more clean vocals and clean passages, yet never forgetting their roots and the fans that have been with them since the beginning. Their early material is good if you're into the Norwegian black metal scene of the '90s, but their stuff from the '00's is just so good.
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