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1998 |
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CD, LP |
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9 |
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39:37 |
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Blodhemn is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian Viking metal band Enslaved . It was released by Osmose Productions in 1998 . In addition to several re-releases, it was released in 2009 as part of a wooden box released by Viva Hate Records along with the demo recording Yggdrasill and the albums Frost , Eld , Mardraum: Beyond the Within , Monumension and Below the Lights .
Track list
- Intro. "Audhumla; Birth of the Worlds ” - 1:11
- I Lenker Til Ragnarok (In Chains Until Ragnarok) - 05:38 (Text: Kjellson; Music: Bjørnson)
- Urtical Gods - 03:19 (Text: Dirge Rep; Music: Bjørnson)
- Ansuz Astral - 04:54 (Text: Bjørnson; Music: Bjørnson, R. Kronheim)
- Nidingaslakt - 03:22 (Text: Kjellson; Music: R. Kronheim)
- Eit Auga Til Mimir (An Eye for Mimir) - 04:24 (Text: R. Kronheim, Kjellson, Dirge Rep; Music: Kjellson)
- Blodhemn (Vengeance in Blood) - 05:32 (Text: Kjellson; Music: Bjørnson, R. Kronheim)
- Brisinghamen - 03:30 (Text: Kjellson; Music: R. Kronheim, Bjørnson)
- Suttungs Mjød (Suttungs Mead) incl. Outro ”Perkulator” - 07:47 (Text: Trad .; Music: Bjørnson, Kjellson)
Music style and lyrics
Like the previous albums, Blodhemn is also influenced by Scandinavian Black Metal and, according to Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic, initially sounds blacker than the previous albums; Due to the generally shorter songs and the cleaner, more compressed sound, the album seems more “Swedish” than its predecessors, but the album shows the Enslaved penchant for experimentation. While the predecessor Eld was more epic with increasing use of melodic vocals and atmospheric keyboards and tended towards Bathory's Hammerheart , Blodhemn goes with shorter, faster, harder and, according to Paul Schwarz from Chronicles of Chaos, "more vitriolic" songs that are more oriented towards traditional Black Metal, in the opposite direction. For black-metal-influenced music, Urtical Gods and Nidingaslakt are very rock-'n'-roll- heavy in their structure . Ansuz Astral contains a psychedelic / electronic transition . I Lenker Til Ragnarok has the note in brackets Loke - del II in the booklet , which means that it is a continuation of the song Loke from their second album Frost .
reception
According to Rivadavia, the band used the turn of the millennium to close the stylistic first chapter of their career with Blodhemn ; From the successor Mardraum: Beyond the Within from 2000, Enslaved have significantly transformed their own sound with each release. Dark hymns like Eit Auga Til Mimir , Suttungs Mjød and the title song are "new triumphs". Blodhemn is "another victorious step in Enslaved's long and unending musical evolution". Schwarz described Enslaved as "one of the few bands clever enough to successfully challenge Emperor ". For him, the change in style compared to Eld was initially an “unwelcome step backwards”, but he found that Enslaved still had a musical goal that was as interesting as ever. He praised Dirge Rep's talent, emphasizing that the band had not given up on the many elements that made Eld brilliant. The style has become more brutal and concise, and since Emperors Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk he has not heard an album that mixes brutality and atmosphere so well; compared to this, it also has a stronger sound.
Individual evidence
- ^ Enslaved: News. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010 ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (English).
- ↑ Enslaved: Enslaved Wooden Box unleashed! Myspace, January 27, 2010, accessed April 20, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Blodhemn - Enslaved. Allmusic , accessed on May 13, 2013 .
- ^ A b Paul Schwarz: Enslaved - Blodhemn. Chronicles of Chaos, November 19, 1998, accessed May 13, 2013 .