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| 4.5 superb | demon of surveillance | October 12th 17 |
Enslaved: "how many levels of GOOD 70s prog worship are you on" Opeth: "idk like 3 or 4" Enslaved: "you are like little baby, watch this"
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| 3.5 great | slipperyboi | October 16th 17 |
Imagine a world where Opeth didn't break your heart.
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| 4.0 excellent | andersvisa | October 13th 17 |
Enslaved doing an impression of Opeth doing an impression of Mastodon doing an impression of Enslaved.
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| 4.0 excellent | Eons | October 22nd 17 |
Ew stop comparing them to Opeth
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| 4.5 superb | ijy10152 | October 16th 17 |
Any rating will fail to do an Enslaved album justice. Every Enslaved album is something to be experienced, not just "checked out". Sit down and listen to this from start to finish with a nice pair of headphones or speakers, whatever you prefer, you will not be disappointed.
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| 4.5 superb | Panzerchrist | October 15th 17 |
In Times had me falling asleep, but this one definitely has a certain energy to it that gets you from the beginning to the end, with little to no down time. While the Opeth comparisons are fairly accurate, Enslaved manage to make their compositions much more than just odes to the 70s and 80s; incorporating these ideas into their original sound with very little being lost in translation. This thing is filled with variety and, above that, solid songwriting, so definitely check into this if you're looking for something a bit more colorful in your metal.
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| 4.0 excellent | Wizard | October 19th 17 |
Damn, how do they keep on putting out quality like this?
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| 3.5 great | Xenophanes EMERITUS | October 13th 17 |
Actually really fun and I typically hate this sorta thing
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| 4.0 excellent | meenwolf131 | November 15th 17 |
progessive blending of heavy guitar-drive, dark harmony atmosphere, and complex intense space / shifting between harsh and clean vocals create emotional dimension
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| 5.0 classic | 8genre | November 3rd 17 |
Best enslaved since isa
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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | October 29th 17 |
I'm not a fan of Enslaved. I've always thought the black metal vocals were too 'throaty' and mixed too high on pretty much every release. I also wasn't a fan of the early viking phase. I was a bigger fan of their 70s prog stuff, but again with the black metal vocals. On this release, everything just seems to fall into place. This is finally the Enslaved album I can get totally behind.
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| 4.0 excellent | MikeC26 | October 24th 17 |
Enslaved further cement themselves as the most consistently awesome metal band of all time.
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| 4.0 excellent | shanks | October 14th 17 |
Love this band, like any relationships there is up's and down's , this is brilliant from start to finish.
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| 2.0 poor | Do I have somfing n my face? | June 21st 22 |
sacred horse n axis hold a few gems that need to be mined out with heavy editing but the rest is an airy prog mess
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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | December 28th 17 |
It is no secret that Enslaved are one of the most interesting, ever-evolving outfits in black metal history and E. is once again proof of this. At this point Enslaved are as much prog metal as they are black metal and they are seemingly not afraid to approach anything with their music. This is on clear display in 'Hiindsight' which combines their signature proggy black metal sound with long drawn out sax passages to near perfection to put the album to bed. Throughout the runtime Enslaved seems to be able to switch from black metal intensity to prog metal jams with flawless transitions. What is lacking here? While the songwriting is for the most part excellent E. lacks the truly amazing, memorable hits like 'In Times' had (Building With Fire, One Thousand Years of Rain were legendary tracks). Enslaved have come around the world and back again since their roots and continue to release albums that should not be missed with an ever evolving style that stays fresh and many metal acts would die for.
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| 2.5 average | zaruyache | November 7th 17 |
Despite being "prog" (whatever that even means), Enslaved still write fairly linear music. There's a lot of reliance on typical verse/chorus dynamics, a lot of unnecessary repetition of fairly uninteresting riffs for long periods of time (because ~prog~), and also quite a few notably poor transitions between harsh and clean vocal sections. It's not exactly complicated music, it's not catchy, and there's not a whole lot of worthwhile content around--heck, given how many run-on instrumental ~prog~ sections there are on "E", you could even argue there isn't that much "content" here in the first place. Now, I've never been a huge fan of Enslaved and am clearly not enamored with progressive music, but this is still--at the end of the day--fairly formulaic, uninteresting music. Sure the clean bits and melodic work is pretty, but outside that there's not much meat on these bones.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jeremy Wolfers | October 26th 17 |
that royksopp cover is quite something. album is generally pretty great, much more solid than In Times
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| 0.0 | someguest | October 15th 17 |
The clean vocals sound like Killing Joke.
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| 4.5 superb | Verdr | March 6th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | MaSuPe | February 24th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | January 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | June 11th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | loulou | May 29th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Blaidd | March 18th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | SYL | March 11th 23 |
| 3.5 great | jhop | March 8th 23 |
| 3.5 great | haxxiy | March 5th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | pabcel | March 4th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Timmy | March 3rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | Shwany | January 13th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Aurora | January 5th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | UrukHai | August 24th 22 |
| 2.5 average | katkac | March 13th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Jerrad | January 25th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | November 25th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Lvxfra | October 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | CamiloG | August 11th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Raoul | June 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | bde1314 | April 12th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | MonkMan | March 31st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | March 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | mobman47 | February 18th 21 |
| 2.5 average | PapaH | January 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | thawey | December 18th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Artechi | November 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Surtur | October 7th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Tryster | October 3rd 20 |
| 3.5 great | sicky | October 1st 20 |
| 4.5 superb | IlRoz94 | September 27th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | cog | August 7th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | August 1st 20 |
| 3.0 good | Spag | July 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Suyan | July 20th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Kevin | July 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kruppe | May 22nd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | IlRoz | May 22nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | April 28th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | kleggi | January 22nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Raust | January 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jfish226 | November 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sasaboy | September 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | HybridF | August 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | lilmilk | August 23rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | June 20th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Dr7 | April 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gbhill | March 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | February 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ARDCWE | December 30th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Z1gster | December 29th 18 |
| 3.5 great | sam1oq | December 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | SuzyC | October 29th 18 |
| 3.5 great | mursu | July 14th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | FLRTE | July 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | lyu103 | July 1st 18 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | May 18th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Coast | April 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | hadriel | March 25th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | stesta | March 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Kantala | February 26th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | teamster | February 24th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Aranox | February 23rd 18 |
| 2.5 average | adr | February 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | February 15th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flave | February 12th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | February 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | January 28th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Faraudo | January 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | TrivirT | January 5th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Awake88 | January 1st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mortum | December 31st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | ranur | December 30th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | colwin | December 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GhostK | December 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | December 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xenoflux | December 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jaumeska | December 19th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Faustus | December 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | hsb | December 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mouzred | December 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hyndez | December 8th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | DRusso | December 7th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Defcol | December 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | CygnusX1 | November 27th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Tyrael | November 19th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Bulgaro | November 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Macck | November 13th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | tysly | November 12th 17 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | November 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | elch21 | November 6th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Essence | November 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | November 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thibs | November 3rd 17 |
| 2.5 average | Gmork89 | October 31st 17 |
| 4.5 superb | max13x | October 30th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Sebe | October 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mojito | October 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | N2B3J | October 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | valek | October 28th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | hancock | October 27th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | doodao | October 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Marci | October 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodstar | October 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | October 24th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | progsun | October 23rd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Solanum | October 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nagash | October 22nd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Enzx | October 22nd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | catzlol | October 22nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | em17ah | October 19th 17 |
| 3.8 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | October 18th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Nacen | October 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | ankolas | October 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | gnimas | October 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | TeeDeeM | October 16th 17 |
| 3.5 great | JWT155 | October 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tasty | October 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | ctay145 | October 15th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | vkristi | October 15th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | cherno | October 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fenix | October 14th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | October 14th 17 |
| 2.5 average | IceMole | October 14th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Elevon | October 14th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Tobmast | October 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jeejee | October 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Elynna | October 13th 17 |
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