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Enslaved // Axioma Ethica Odini
Rating: 4.0/5.0 — Great, but a bit forced…
Label: Indie Recordings (EU) | Nuclear Blast (US)
Websites: enslaved.no
Release Dates: EU: 27.09.2010 | US: 09.28.2010

It is not hard to accept one fundamental axiom of the post-black metal Norway that I have referred to recently: Enslaved is easily Norway’s finest band. From the beginning the band has always been strong; grown-ups in a room filled with angry teenagers. This sense has not lessened with the passage of time. While certain members of the scene will forever be singing their equivalent of Alice Cooper ridiculous teen hits as 45 year olds (or older, like the man himself), Enslaved will continue to push the boundaries of black metal with a mature and progressive sound. Starting with the release of Below the Lights in 2003, Enslaved has produced four modern classics of “progressive, psychedelic black metal.” The fourth of this string of amazing albums was Vertebrae, which was released in 2008 and landed the band a tour with Opeth as well as more recognition than they had ever received worldwide. And with good reason: it was the best record the band had written to date. Continue reading

Well, after Vertebrae, I can’t think of anyone who shouldn’t be excited about the new Enslaved record which will be dropped on the 27th of September in Europe and the following day in the States and called: Axioma Ethica Odini (a little help with this translation would be awesome—Axioma = Law/truth, Ethica = Ethics, Odini = Latinized Oden—but I don’t know the grammar).

A reader has kindly popped in and left his translation, which I think sounds pretty badass and I think him for his expertise (and nerdiness). To quote: “Odini would be genitive singular, so in English Odin’s True Ethics“. Very badass indeed.

http://www.myspace.com/enslaved