Enslaved - Isa

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.