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Thursday, January 26, 2023
ENSLAVED: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "FOREST DWELLER"
Norwegian Viking, progressive black metal
warriors ENSLAVED have posted a video for"FOREST DWELLER" ,a track from the bands
anticipated new release "HEIMDAL'", due to be unleashed 3/3/2023 via
NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED unleashed "CARAVANS TO THE OUTER
WORLD"(EP),, 10/1/2021 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. .
ENSLAVED unleashed "UTGARD-THE JOURNEY WITHIN CINEMATIC TOUR 2020", 6/25/2021 BY NORSE MUSIC.
ENSLAVED unleashed "UTGARD", 10/2/2020 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
* * * NEW SINGLE 'FOREST DWELLER' + VIDEO OUT NOW * * *
Today we share with you a new single and video from Heimdal, our 16th studio album out on March 3rd 2023. 'Forest Dweller’ is a churning, psychedelic journey through archaic Norse folklore. One might ask what lessons we can divine from our celestial ancestors? We might never understand their true intentions, but their echo will live on regardless.
Grutle Kjellson comments: “To me 'Forest Dweller' was the most immediate song on the album, at least in its earliest form as an instrumental demo. I spent quite some time to get into some of the other songs of the album, but this one seemed somehow logical, well logical by Enslaved standards that is. I had an idea for a lyric, and Ivar’s amazing and diverse riffs on this one made it easy to pan out the scripture. I made a rough plan on what to sing over it, and we actually ended up using some parts of those recordings on the album!
The song sort of showcases our representative samples of inspiration: Led Zep, Genesis, Destruction, Iron Maiden and David Bowie, to mention a schizophrenic tapestry of influences. It mirrors in the lyrics as well, which deals about both darkness and light in connection to the nature of Heimdal.”