VINYL

Enslaved iconic debut album! The vinyl layout was done by Z. Bielak (Ghost, Mayhem, etc.), and includes four exclusive illustrations especially 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). All tracks  have been respectfully remastered for vinyl by Iver Sandøy; preserving every bit of original dynamics.

The exclusive RSD 2024 edition comes as 2x12"" Black/Green Marble Aurora Borealis vinyls, with the original Gatefold and innersleeves artwork masterfully revisited by Polish vinyl artisan and designer Bartek Rogalewicz (Behemoth, Mayhem, etc.).

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.

Tracklist:
Side 1: 
Lifandi Liv Undir Hamri 11:31

Side 2:
Vetrarnótt 10:58

Side 3:
Midgards Eldar 11:16

Side 4:
Heimdallr 6:15
Norvegr (Instrumental) 10:56

Label: By Norse Music
Type: 2x12"" in Gatefold
Colour: Black/Green Marble Aurora Borealis
Release date: April 20th, 2024

"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

Enslaved – RIITIIR 2x12” – Gold (Limited)

Tracklist:

Side A1 
Thoughts Like Hammers 9:30
Death In The Eyes Of Dawn 8:17

Side A2 
Veilburner  6:45
Roots Of The Mountain 9:16

Side B1 
Riitiir   5:26
Materal   7:48

Side B2 
Storm Of Memories 8:58
Forsaken  11:15

UPC: 4065629721770
CAT: NB 7217-7

Release date: 04 Oct 2012
Label: Nuclear Blast

Genre: black metal / prog rock

TRACKLIST

01. Building With Fire - 08:09
02. Death in the Eyes of Dawn - 08:00
03. In Times - 10:44
04. Daylight - 09:44
05. Convoys to Nothingness - 09:05
06. As Fire Swept Clean the Earth - 07:14
07. Isa - 04:46
08. Immigrant Song* - 06:57

* = Original by Led Zeppelin

Roadburn Live is Enslaved’s first official live album, a split release between Roadburn Records and By Norse Music. Enslaved is a band widely known for being one of the best live bands in the scene. The album was recorded during one of band’s headline shows at the renown Roadburn Festival 2015; an edition curated by Enslaved’s guitar player Ivar Bjørnson.

Roadburn Live will be available on vinyl in limited and exclusive Record Store Day edition including an original A3 Roadburn poster and color sticker. The album features a brilliant layout created by highly demanded artist and Roadburn’s regular graphic designer Costin Chioreanu.

The album was mixed by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio, mastered by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Opeth, Sepultura) in Fascination Studios. It is also the last official release with Herbrand Larsen on keys and vocals.

After celebrating 25 years in 2016 showcasing a majority of older material, « Roadburn Live » displays songs mainly from the « newer » and more progressive part of Enslaved’s career, with songs from “In Times”, “Riitiir”, “Isa”, “Below the Lights” and “Monumension”. The album features the guest appearances of E. Selvik (Wardruna), Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (Sólstafir), Per Wiberg (Opeth, Candlemass); and Menno Gootjes (Focus) on « Immigrant Song », the first cover song by Enslaved to ever appear on a record.

Grutle Kjellson comments on the album: "I'm generally not a huge fan of live albums, I like to be present at a show, to grasp the energy of the band and to witness the, sometimes, magical symbiosis that occurs between the band and the audience. I am, however, a huge fan of the Roadburn Festival! I consider this to be my all time favorite, both as a musician and as a guest. Therefore; if ever Enslaved were to release a live album, it had to be from a Roadburn show! I hope you will enjoy this piece of wax as much as we had recording it!"

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. Enslaved has released a total of 13 albums, and is widely known as an innovative force within Extreme and Progressive Metal.

“ROADBURN LIVE” LINE-UP:

Ivar Bjørnson (guitars, keys)
Grutle Kjellson (vocals, bass)
Arve Isdal (guitars)
Cato Bekkevold (drums)
Herbrand Larsen (keyboard, keys)

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 2x 12"LP - Gatefold
Release date: May 19, 2017
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

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

ENSLAVED in 2020 is a band in stellar form, a band at its most existentialist and self-conscious, proud Bergeners bearing the torch of their hometowns' extraordinary musical history. "Utgard" shows them at a stage where simply everything they touch turns to gold. Icy black metal anthems walk hand in hand with refined prog rock gems and primordial, dark folk sorcery. It's ENSLAVED to the bone. And yet again a band that cast off its old skin, delivering some of their shortest songs in years while still packing them with glimmering detail.

Tracklist: 

1. Fires In The Dark
2. Jettegryta
3. Sequence
4. Homebound
5. Utgardr
6. Urjotun
7. Flight Of Thought And Memory
8. Storms Of Utgard
9. Distant Seasons

Label: Nuclear Blast
Media Type: LP BLACK
Release date: Oct 2nd, 2020
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal

TRACKLIST

01. Building With Fire - 08:09
02. Death in the Eyes of Dawn - 08:00
03. In Times - 10:44
04. Daylight - 09:44
05. Convoys to Nothingness - 09:05
06. As Fire Swept Clean the Earth - 07:14
07. Isa - 04:46
08. Immigrant Song* - 06:57

* = Original by Led Zeppelin

Roadburn Live is Enslaved’s first official live album, a split release between Roadburn Records and By Norse Music. Enslaved is a band widely known for being one of the best live bands in the scene. The album was recorded during one of band’s headline shows at the renown Roadburn Festival 2015; an edition curated by Enslaved’s guitar player Ivar Bjørnson.

Roadburn Live will be available on vinyl in limited and exclusive Record Store Day edition including an original A3 Roadburn poster and color sticker. The album features a brilliant layout created by highly demanded artist and Roadburn’s regular graphic designer Costin Chioreanu.

The album was mixed by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio, mastered by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Opeth, Sepultura) in Fascination Studios. It is also the last official release with Herbrand Larsen on keys and vocals.

After celebrating 25 years in 2016 showcasing a majority of older material,  Roadburn Live  displays songs mainly from the « newer » and more progressive part of Enslaved’s career, with songs from In Times, Riitiir, Isa, Below the Lights and Monumension. The album features the guest appearances of E. Selvik (Wardruna), Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (Sólstafir), Per Wiberg (Opeth, Candlemass); and Menno Gootjes (Focus) on  Immigrant Song, the first cover song by Enslaved to ever appear on a record.

Grutle Kjellson comments on the album: I'm generally not a huge fan of live albums, I like to be present at a show, to grasp the energy of the band and to witness the, sometimes, magical symbiosis that occurs between the band and the audience. I am, however, a huge fan of the Roadburn Festival! I consider this to be my all time favorite, both as a musician and as a guest. Therefore; if ever Enslaved were to release a live album, it had to be from a Roadburn show! I hope you will enjoy this piece of wax as much as we had recording it!

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. Enslaved has released a total of 13 albums, and is widely known as an innovative force within Extreme and Progressive Metal.

“ROADBURN LIVE” LINE-UP:

Ivar Bjørnson (guitars, keys)
Grutle Kjellson (vocals, bass)
Arve Isdal (guitars)
Cato Bekkevold (drums)
Herbrand Larsen (keyboard, keys)

Label: By Norse Music
Media Type: 2x 12"LP - Gatefold
Release date: May 19, 2017
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal

Enslaved – E 2x12” – Natural (Limited)

Tracklist:

Side A1
Storm Son 10:54
The River's Mouth 5:12

Side A2
Sacred Horse 8:13
Axis Of The Worlds 7:50

Side B1
Feathers Of Eolh 8:06
Hiindsiight 9:33

- Etched B2 Side -

UPC: 727361420635
CAT: NB 4206-3

Release date: 13 October 2017
Label: Nuclear Blast

Genre: black metal / prog 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

 

Enslaved and By Norse Music present "Tón Leithsla I - Hordanes Land": a very limited edition of the all-times classic as a picture disc, including exclusive content! Strictly limited to 500 copies and sold exclusively online.

"Tón Leithsla I - Hordanes Land" is the first opus in an exclusive By Norse Music series that celebrates the label's most iconic releases. The series title "Tón Leiðsla" is a construct that means "a graphic representation of a musical vision" and depicts the creative collaboration between the artists and By Norse Music at the core of these editions.

Each opus in the "Tón Leithsla" series features an illustration by Bergen-based artist Jannicke Wiese-Hansen and a unique poem created or commissioned by the artists. The "Hordanes Land" poem was written by Ivar Bjørnson and evokes the cross-over between History, Tolkien-influence and Norse mythology that was behind this iconic mini-album. The layout of the series was created by renowned artist Marcelo Vasco (Kreator, Slayer, etc.).

In March 2018, By Norse Music reissued Enslaved's 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 original songs were entirely remastered by Iver Sandøy at Solslottet Studio (Bergen, Norway) and the bonus track "Enslaved", first released in 1992.

Tracklist:
1. Slaget i skogen bortenfor (Epilog / Slaget)
2. Allfothr Othinn
3. Balfor (Andi fara / Prologr)
4. 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: Picture disc vinyl
Release date: November 27th, 2020
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal