Enslaved Bridge Two Worlds 2026-08-18 by John Marinakis CONTRIBUTOR | 4 Comments | Enslaved have released Spirit Helper, a cross-cultural collaboration featuring vocals from Kevin Kicking Woman, an elder of the Blackfeet Nation.
The song emerged from relationships developed through Fire in the Mountains, a festival held on Blackfeet land in Montana. During a later gathering in New York, Kicking Woman shared a traditional morning prayer song with guitarist Ivar Bjørnson and entrusted Enslaved with using it as the foundation of a new composition.
Rather than merely placing the prayer within an existing arrangement, Bjørnson allowed the band's music to follow its rhythm, cadence and spiritual character. He described the resulting track as a connection between different traditions, people, eras and spiritual worlds.
Blackfeet artist Nicholas Rink created the accompanying artwork, using an old map of Norway alongside symbols representing the ocean separating the collaborators, their shared humanity and the movement of the song itself.
https://blabbermouth.net/news/enslaved-reveals-collaborative-track-spirit-helper-featuring-kevin-kicking-woman-of-the-blackfeet-nation
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Garbage song!
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pretty cool
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shut up wiz u poozer
does sound more like an interlude track tho
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Very cool. I think the Norse and native American shamanic aesthetics have a lot in common, at least in pop culture. Backstory is cool too, I always thought Enslaved took the spiritual/cosmological aspect of Norse paganism more seriously than most bands.
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