loving opener 'ethica odini' the most

intro to 'giants' is somewhat reminiscent of intros to 'porcelain heart + heir apparent'

Had to 5 this. Its so fucking solid, every song is amazing.

Album Rating: 4.7 | Sound Off

Hell yeah son!

yep 5'd, end to end bliss with the progressive elements to the infectious growls

Album Rating: 3.0

listening for first time, holy shit, why did i wait so long? so much better than ISA

Album Rating: 4.5

This album would easily be a 5 were it not for the black metal vocalist. There's a difference between good black metal rasps/shrieks and phlegmy yelps.

Album Rating: 4.7 | Sound Off

The black metal vocals are awesome.

Album Rating: 4.5

I dunno man, half the time it sounds like there's a frog stuck in his throat. I'm going to get shit for this...but I like the style like in Agalloch. More rasp and less phlegm.

Album Rating: 4.7 | Sound Off

I know what you mean. His harsh vocals are pretty much a love-hate thing for a lot of people.

Album Rating: 4.5

But seriously, everything else about this album is gold. It's like taking taking a journey listening to this from start to finish; you start with the more raw, black metal-ish Ethica Odini, and by the time you've reached Lightening, its this crazy progressive black metal mix. I like it a lot.



The clean vocals are fine imo. Just the black metal vocals...something irks me.

1.5

there isnt a single part on this that even approaches raw bm

in fact they havent never played raw bm at all so...

Album Rating: 3.5

This is true.

Album Rating: 3.5

some poorly executed jazz-inspired moments, and almost touching on cheesy prog vibes let this down slightly. 7/10 is fair i think.

Album Rating: 3.5

lol @ these 5's

Album Rating: 4.5

lol @ them

Album Rating: 4.5

in fact they havent never played raw bm at all so...



Truth, the only thing you could consider raw is their production on Frost and Eld.

Album Rating: 5.0

This was an amazing album. One thing that bothered me about this band was how they refused to play with the Christian band Slechtvalk I think it was, yet the are willing to tour with Dimmu Borgir. Slechtvalk may be Christian, but they're definitely better than dimmu, even if they aren't "trve" or "kvlt". Enslaved was crazy good live.

The vocals are the best thing about this album.The clean melodies to be precise.

Album Rating: 4.5

hard to pick one thing out of this work and call it the "best". I think what really makes the singing so much better is the smooth transition between screaming and singing, it never comes off as forced and subsequently adds a whole different aspect to the music that you weren't originally expecting coming into the album. Well, that at least goes for new comers to Enslaved like me who never heard any of their work until this.