BNM - Enslaved

Enslaved release their iconic early demo from 1992 “Yggdrasill” as a fully remastered re-issue!

Raw, untamed, furious yet sophisticated, “Yggdrasill” is undoubtedly an essential cornerstone of the Norwegian Black Metal scene. Despite the young age of their members in their teens at the time they recorded it, “Yggdrasill” already shows Enslaved's ability to write complex, powerful and evocative compositions, being among the first ones to tap into the Norse mythology and Viking imagery to convey their Nordic heritage.

Fully remastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios, this new re-issue of “Yggdrasill” from By Norse Music (Ivar Bjørnson’s own imprint) on CD Digipack features an informative 12-pages booklet with liner notes from both Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Bjørnson, providing a historical perspective upon the music, archive photos from the period and full lyrics; and all five songs from the demo plus the Bonus Track “Enslaved"!

Tracklist:

1. Heimdallr
2. Allfadr Odinn
3. Hal Valr
4. Niunda Heim
5. Resound Of Gjallarhorn
6. Enslaved (Bonus Track)

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: CD Digipack w/ 12-pages booklet
Release date: December 2nd, 2022
Genre: Black Metal

Limited 1st press of 1000 copies worldwide with a matt finish and gold foil Slipcase

Features:

- 4x dual layer DVDs (PAL)
- Slipcase with matt finish and Gold Foil
- 16 pages booklet
- Movies download card

Enslaved is celebrating 30 years of unprecedented, genre-boundaries altering presence in the Extreme Metal and Prog scenes in 2021! To celebrate this milestone, By Norse Music and Nuclear Blast proudly announce the release of the Enslaved “Cinematic Tour 2020” on June 25th, 2021.

The Enslaved “Cinematic Tour 2020” 4x DVDs (PAL)  contains the four streamed concerts broadcasted by the band in 2020:

“The Rise of Ymir” was performed as part of the Verftet Online Festival in Bergen during spring 2020. As the band celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, "The Rise of Ymir" is a powerful gathering of some of Enslaved’s all-times favourite hymns.

"Chronicles of the Northbound” was performed in the spirit of and in collaboration with Roadburn Festival at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway, during a psychedelic day of Summer 2020. The setlist was assembled 1:1 from an online voting by fans. Enslaved salutes their fans for their efforts in choosing a list that was also 1:1 with their "dream set".

"Below the Lights" was performed in league with Beyond the Gates Festival at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway, during a dark day of summer 2020. The event witnessed Enslaved perform their acclaimed opus "Below the Lights" in its entirety, featuring the guest musician Inge Rypdal.

“Utgard – The Journey Within” was performed with power from Summer Breeze Open Air, at Nowhere in Sotra, Norway during a day of might in Summer 2020. "Utgard - The Journey Within" was Enslaved’s virtual release party for their latest album "Utgard".

Release date: 25.06.21
Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 4x DVDs (PAL) Digislack
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal"

Limited 1st press of 1000 copies worldwide with a matt finish and gold foil Slipcase

Features:

- 4x dual layer DVDs (PAL) in digipack
- 4x CDs in digipack
- Slipcase with matt finish and Gold Foil
- 24 pages booklet
- Movies download card

Enslaved is celebrating 30 years of unprecedented, genre-boundaries altering presence in the Extreme Metal and Prog scenes in 2021! To celebrate this milestone, By Norse Music and Nuclear Blast proudly announce the release of the Enslaved “Cinematic Tour 2020” on June 25th, 2021.

The Enslaved “Cinematic Tour 2020” 4x CDs + 4x DVDs (PAL)  contains the four streamed concerts broadcasted by the band in 2020:

“The Rise of Ymir” was performed as part of the Verftet Online Festival in Bergen during spring 2020. As the band celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, ""The Rise of Ymir"" is a powerful gathering of some of Enslaved’s all-times favourite hymns.

"Chronicles of the Northbound” was performed in the spirit of and in collaboration with Roadburn Festival at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway, during a psychedelic day of Summer 2020. The setlist was assembled 1:1 from an online voting by fans. Enslaved salutes their fans for their efforts in choosing a list that was also 1:1 with their "dream set".

"Below the Lights" was performed in league with Beyond the Gates Festival at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway, during a dark day of summer 2020. The event witnessed Enslaved perform their acclaimed opus "Below the Lights" in its entirety, featuring the guest musician Inge Rypdal.

“Utgard – The Journey Within” was performed with power from Summer Breeze Open Air, at Nowhere in Sotra, Norway during a day of might in Summer 2020. "Utgard - The Journey Within" was Enslaved’s virtual release party for their latest album "Utgard".

Release date: 25.06.21
Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 4x CDs + 4x DVDs (PAL) Boxset
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal

Second pressing on White 2x12" Vinyl in Gatefold

Enslaved and By Norse Music online stores exclusive!

Features:

- Movies download card
- Original illustration by Tor Ola Svennevig on the inner-sleeve
- All songs lyrics

Enslaved is celebrating 30 years of unprecedented, genre-boundaries altering presence in the Extreme Metal and Prog scenes in 2021! To celebrate this milestone, By Norse Music and Nuclear Blast have proudly released the Enslaved “Cinematic Tour 2020” on June 25th, 2021.

"Below the Lights" was performed in league with Beyond the Gates Festival at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway, during a dark day of summer 2020. The event witnessed Enslaved perform their acclaimed opus "Below the Lights" in its entirety, featuring the guest musician Inge Rypdal - aka The Sixth - who performs brilliantly on guitar throughout this entire concert (as he once also did on "A Darker Place" on the original recording)!

Tracklist:

1. As Fire Swept Clean the Earth
2. The Dead Stare
3. The Crossing
4. Queen of Night
5. Havenless
6. Ridicule Swarm
7. A Darker Place

Release date: December 2021
Label: By Norse Music
Media type: 2x12" Vinyl, Gatefold
Color: White
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal

"Axioma Ethica Odini" Re-Issue on Black 2xLP 

Paired with the re-issue of "Vertebrae", as these two Enslaved-albums also form an important pair musically; as many of the bands releases do, forming pairs in dynamics sonically and conceptually. By now Enslaved was "up and running" with the turn to the more progressive and avant-gardist directions more or less completed with its more mellow predecessors - "Axioma Ethica Odini" came as a lightning strike from the golden heavens of Valhalla itself - with its more direct approach and songwriting.

A big part of the big leap forward in production was the transition to using the band's own studios in Bergen in addition to getting co-producer (and present drummer) Iver Sandøy onboard as well as recording parts in his Solslottet Studios, also in Bergen - and then taking all those recording over to Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios, Örebro, Sweden for mixing. The powerful sound that resulted set a new standard for both Enslaved and progressive Extreme Metal.

The By Norse Music (Ivar Bjørnson's own label) re-issue features two special songs recorded during the same sessions as the album and previously only released as a 7" single; the hypnotic ethereal "Migration" (inspired by Enslaved's collaborative commissioned piece at Molde International Jazz festival in 2008) and the doom-version of Frost-classic "Jotunblod" re-imagined for a special set at Roadburn Festival 2010. This issue features analytic and in-depth liner notes by Dom Lawson of Metal Hammer UK and Prog Magazine fame - a longtime friend and supporter of the band's uncompromising preference of the roads not taken.

The design of the album is beautifully redone with new details, colors layout solutions by Marcelo Vasco (Slayer, Kreator, Machine Head), all while staying true to the original artwork by longtime Enslaved-cover artist Truls Espedal.

TRACKLIST:

1. Ethica Odini
2. Raidho
3. Waruun
4. The Beacon
5. Axiom
6. Giants
7. Singular
8. Night Sight
9. Lightning
10. Jotunblod (Doom) - Bonus Track
11. Migration - Bonus Track

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 2xLP - Gatefold
Release date: November 8, 2019
Genre: Metal / Viking Black Metal

"Axioma Ethica Odini" By Norse Music Re-Issue on CD Digipak! 

Paired with the re-issue of "Vertebrae", as these two Enslaved-albums also form an important pair musically; as many of the bands releases do, forming pairs in dynamics sonically and conceptually. By now Enslaved was "up and running" with the turn to the more progressive and avant-gardist directions more or less completed with its more mellow predecessors - "Axioma Ethica Odini" came as a lightning strike from the golden heavens of Valhalla itself - with its more direct approach and songwriting.

A big part of the big leap forward in production was the transition to using the band's own studios in Bergen in addition to getting co-producer (and present drummer) Iver Sandøy onboard as well as recording parts in his Solslottet Studios, also in Bergen - and then taking all those recording over to Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios, Örebro, Sweden for mixing. The powerful sound that resulted set a new standard for both Enslaved and progressive Extreme Metal.

The By Norse Music (Ivar Bjørnson's own label) re-issue features two special songs recorded during the same sessions as the album and previously only released as a 7" single; the hypnotic ethereal "Migration" (inspired by Enslaved's collaborative commissioned piece at Molde International Jazz festival in 2008) and the doom-version of Frost-classic "Jotunblod" re-imagined for a special set at Roadburn Festival 2010. This issue features analytic and in-depth liner notes by Dom Lawson of Metal Hammer UK and Prog Magazine fame - a longtime friend and supporter of the band's uncompromising preference of the roads not taken.

The design of the album is beautifully redone with new details, colors layout solutions by Marcelo Vasco (Slayer, Kreator, Machine Head), all while staying true to the original artwork by longtime Enslaved-cover artist Truls Espedal.

TRACKLIST:

1. Ethica Odini
2. Raidho
3. Waruun
4. The Beacon
5. Axiom
6. Giants
7. Singular
8. Night Sight
9. Lightning
10. Jotunblod (Doom) - Bonus Track
11. Migration - Bonus Track

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: CD Digipak
Release date: November 8, 2019
Genre: Metal / Viking Black Metal

"Vertebrae" By Norse Music Re-Issue on CD Digipak! 

Paired with the re-issue of "Axioma Ethica Odini", as these two Enslaved-albums also form an important pair musically; as many of the bands releases do, forming pairs in dynamics sonically and conceptually. Already somewhat of a "cult classic", this is the album where the production philosophy of "new era" Enslaved was born, through the mentoring of mixer Joe Baressi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Melvins) – recorded in Studio Studio, owned and operated by TNT lead guitarist Ronnie Le Tekrø (who also guests on the album).  

This By Norse Music (Ivar Bjørnson's own label) re-issue features two very rare cover-tracks recorded during Enslaved legendary live-appearance at Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway - in May 2011; one is Rush's "Earthshine" while the other is King Crimson's instrumental "Red". These covers set the rest of the album into context through highlighting two main influences for Enslaved's evolution from especially "Vertebrae" and onwards.  

The re-issue features in-depth liner notes written and edited by writer and long-time friend of the band Chris Dick; known for his decades of writing for the American Metal-magazine Decibel Magazine. The liner notes are written in the style of an in-depth and extensive interview with all five members on the album, where many new angles and golden nuggets of information never before divulged publicly.  

The design of the album is beautifully redone with new details, colors layout solutions by Marcelo Vasco (Slayer, Kreator, Machine Head), all while staying true to the original artwork by longtime Enslaved-cover artist Truls Espedal.  

TRACKLIST

1. Clouds
2. To the Coast
3. Ground
4. Vertebrae
5. New Dawn
6. Reflection
7. Center
8. The Watcher
9. Red
10. Earthshine
11. Red (Live) - Bonus Track
12. Earthshine (Live) - Bonus Track

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: CD Digipak
Release date: November 8, 2019
Genre: Metal / Viking Black Metal

On March 2nd 2018 on CD (April 20th on LP), By Norse Music will reissue Enslaved debut EP Hordanes Land plus a bonus track as a full-length release. First released in 1993 as a mini 12 LP, Hordanes Land was also released a few weeks later as a split CD album with Emperor and is considered a key release in the development of Viking metal.

The By Norse Music re-issue features exclusive liner notes and quotes by major figures of the Black metal scene such as Fenriz (Darkthrone), Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ), Lee Barret (Candlelight) and Hrymr (Helheim) among others, the original songs entirely remastered by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio (Bergen, Norway) and the bonus track Enslaved, from the Enslaved split with Satyricon Yggdrasill, released in 1992.

Re-issue on By Norse Music, Enslaved member Ivar Bjørnson’s own label Re-issue features exclusive liner notes and quotes by major figures of the Black metal scene such as Fenriz (Darkthrone), Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ), Lee Barret (Candlelight) and Hrymr (Helheim) among others.

Original songs entirely remastered by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio (Bergen, Norway) Features the bonus track Enslaved, from the Enslaved split with Satyricon Yggdrasill, released in 1992

TRACKLIST:

Slaget i skogen bortenfor (Epilog / Slaget)
Allfoðr Oðinn
Balfor (Andi fara / Prologr)
Enslaved (Bonus Track)

LINEUP:

Grutle Kjellson – Vocals, Bass
Ivar Bjørnson – Guitar, FX’s, Fretless, Keyboards & Synthesizers
Trym Torson – Drums, Percussions

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: LP - Single
Release date: April 20, 2018
Black Metal / Progressive Metal

Digipack CD

Reissue of Enslaved debut EP Hordanes Land, considered a key release in the development of Viking metal.

The re-issue features exclusive liner notes and quotes by major figures of the Black metal scene such as Fenriz (Darkthrone), Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ), Lee Barret (Candlelight) and Hrymr (Helheim) among others, the original songs entirely remastered by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio (Bergen, Norway) and the bonus track Enslaved, from the Enslaved split with Satyricon Yggdrasill, released in 1992.

Tracklist:

1. Slaget i skogen bortenfor (Epilog / Slaget)
2. Allfoðr Oðinn
3. Balfor (Andi fara / Prologr)
4. Enslaved (Bonus Track)

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: CD Digipack
Release date: March 2, 2018
Black Metal / Progressive Metal

CD-Digipack comprised of rare material from 2010/2011. For the first time this unique collection of experimental material, also connecting with their early roots, is available as an album. Beautiful new layout and illustrations by Costin Chioreanu (Roadburn Festival, Opeth, Darkthrone, At The Gates etc.). Includes liner notes by Grutle Kjellson

Tracklist:

1. Heimvegen 
2. Alu Misyrki 
3. Synthesis 
4. Nordlys (instrumental) 
5. The Sleeping Gods 
6. Disintegrator 
7. Striker 

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 12" LP - Single Sleeve
Release date: November 11, 2016
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal

New pressing of Enslaved iconic debut album on Gold vinyl!

The astonishing new layout was done by Z. Bielak (Ghost, Mayhem, etc.), and includes four brand new illustrations specially made for this legendary album. Z. Bielak has stayed true to the ideals of the era (it was originally scheduled for release on vinyl in 1993); this 2LP Gatefold with illustrated pockets has been respectfully remastered for vinyl by Iver Sandøy; preserving every bit of original dynamics.

Enslaved's 1st full-length album was co-produced with the legendary Pytten in the world famous Grieghallen Studio in Bergen, Norway. It was originally released on Deathlike Silence Productions, an Oslo based independent record label founded in the late 1980s. The infamous label was run by Euronymous, the late mastermind and guitarist behind Black Metal pioneers Mayhem.

This album has lyrics in Icelandic, and is a tribute to the Norse landscape, history and mythology. The compositions and production matches these themes with long horizontal songscapes, dense atmospheres and winds from the past.

Enslaved was formed in 1991 by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson, and did their first demo Yggdrasill in the summer of 1992, while the legendary mini-album Hordanes Land was released the year after in 1993. Vikingligr Veldi came in the spring of 1994 and is Enslaved’s landmark debut album.

VIKINGLIGR VELIDI LINE-UP:

Ivar Bjørnson (guitars, keys)
Grutle Kjellson (vocals, bass)
Trym Torson (drums)

TRACKLIST:

Lifandi Liv Undir Hamri 11:31
Vetrarnótt 10:58
Midgards Eldar 11:16
Heimdallr 6:15
Norvegr (Instrumental) 10:56

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 2 LP, Gatefold
Release date: September 23, 2016
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal