Enslaved - Isa

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Shooooooooooooooooooooegazers!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 23 October 2004 19:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

ooh, new album? when's it coming out in the US?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 23 October 2004 20:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

November 8th. It's excellent. Self-consciously slower than anything they've ever done. Lots of Pink Floyd moments, and a surprising amount of 4AD Lush-ness. Hopefully it'll inspire some of the rock critics around here to look beyond the cover of Revolver and embrace a metal band with real ambition.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 23 October 2004 21:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

hmm. maybe i'll get it and not force my girlfriend to listen to it as a birthday present.

i am totally looking forward to it.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 24 October 2004 04:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Funny enough, it's tame enough that I was actually considering forcing my girlfriend to listen to it -- gotta choose my battles carefully, you know...

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

The last half of "The Dead Stare" off of Below The Lights sounds like Circle. I was hoping they'd go all-out with the krautrockin' for this new one, but hey.

― Alan N (Alan N), Monday, 25 October 2004 01:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

i want more like the first track on below the lights

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 25 October 2004 01:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

True, true. The rest of that album was kind of a letdown after the first two tracks.

― Alan N (Alan N), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

wasn't it "The Crossing" that sounded like Circle?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

i got this today, i'm liking it a lot so far.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

I've been listening to this a lot. I guess nobody else really liked it?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

I turned on the TV at like 5PM a few weeks ago, and a freaking Enslaved video was on!
The title track in ISA. Lame video, very boring (the band seems like fun-loving guys, so why they have to be so BORING with their video, I don't know)
Anyhoo, I have to admit that I wasn't too fond of the song. Now, it might be lousy TV-speakers ruining some of it, but the clean singing bits really put me off.
And by gum do I LOVE Enslaved!
Mardraum's still just about the best Norwegian metal album of the 2000s (particularly the Voivod/Anacrusis-song)

I should dust off Monumension, which I for some reason never played much.

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm not really able to get into this one yet. this and the last one (which i liked) seem like steps down from "monumension."

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well, I think that like Nothingface this will be the album that cracks the shell. It moves over the mall without setting foot inside. Below the Lights was truly great, though, for me it cleared up the unresolved messes of monumension.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Monumension remains my favorite for Enslaved so far. ISA has a bunch of great parts here and there, but overall is kinda boring.

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Eld remains the best!

Haven't heard a lot from Arcturus lately - anything new on that front?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 09:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

This is the only band my local hard rock station has ever introduced me to after several years (although I guess I don't have the dial on that station very often).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 09:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Latest Arcturus news:

ARCTURUS Sign With SEASON OF MIST; New Album To Arrive In August - Jan. 17, 2005
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=31640

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 14:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

The new singer isn't the guy who did that mock-Arabic wailing on Masquerade Infernale is it? He ruined a perfectly good album.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Shooooooooooooooooooooegazers!

That's what I thought when I heard the Jesu record!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

This is the only band my local hard rock station has ever introduced me to after several years (although I guess I don't have the dial on that station very often).

It's playing on Sirius' Hard Attack, too, which means it'll chart, whatever that means.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

I still haven't heard Isa. Everything I've read about it makes it sound like something I would love. There is a lot of new stuff I want to hear. I kinda want to hear that Comity album and the Mouth Of The Architect album, but I'm getting really really leery of stuff that gets compared to Isis/Neurosis/etc. I want to hear that Frantic Bleep album too. And I want to hear the new Origin. And maybe Om. But maybe not. I love that Blood Red Throne album. And the new Immolation. Um, I like lots of stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, and jesu. i want to hear that too. i wish i was rich.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

That Comity album pretty much sucks. The idea of blasts seperated by long taffy strains is good, but doesn't work on their badly titled record.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Scott, as some kind person flagged up the other day, the Om record is Cope's album of the month at the moment so you can stream the whole thing at the Head Heritage HQ. Sounds pretty hot to me.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2005 09:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

The enslaved record grew on me, at first I thought it didnt have enough UMPFFF, but with more spins, the nuances came out. The JESU record rules...it's like Codeine and Sunn 0)))), it's awesome a wall of sound.

The last deftones record was total SHOEGAZE.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

dig below the lights a fair sight more than isa. i mean isa has its place and all, but it has too many bit which are just self-consciously slooooow. i really like how below the lights consistently grooves like a motherfucker, has ambient slow bits here and there for good measure, but speeds up whenever necessary to lend variety and general excitement to the songs.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

Isa is the first time Enslaved made a record that was a disappointment compared to the one before it. Lots of this can be chalked up to the loss of drummer Dirge Rep.

― Nate Carson, Monday, 12 October 2009 21:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

Nate, that is exactly my reaction. though i've since downloaded it again and it's grown on me a little.

― LIVIN' IN A JAM SPREAD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 02:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

i never listen to enslaved. i don't know why. i like them fine. what's wrong with me? there is a lot to like in all their incarnations. sorry, nothing to add!

― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 02:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

was listening to Ruun this morning. Underrated imo. Thoughts? Enslaved does great title tracks. I was almost tempted to start (or search for) a thread about great title tracks.

― Buck Utah (rockapads), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ruun really grew on me in a way that Isa never did. That may be because I bought it on vinyl...

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

i think it was you who mentioned the drum triggers used on Isa in another thread, and I hadn't really noticed how bad the drums sound on that album until reading that. now when i listen to it i don't hear anything BUT the bad drums. :( damn you!

i wish they would re-record Isa, because there is some epic great shit on there.

― Buck Utah (rockapads), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I've just got their latest, having hardly heard them before, and I think it's really really good.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 10 December 2010 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

yuh it's aweeeesome, soundtrack for pwning aussies

― acoleuthic, Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

fuck yeah louis i am happy u r listening to htis

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

hoos I am now listening to the new Agalloch!! giving all the big metal + hip-hop albums a go b4 voting in year-end polls iirc

― acoleuthic, Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Enslaved album was killah

― acoleuthic, Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

i need to get the new agalloch still! they are one of my faves

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

man this is extremely good music, little more to be said except that it's even more epic than usual

― acoleuthic, Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

this song tbh

― markers, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

"thoughts like hammers"

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 September 2012 21:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

This band is frigging amazing. That is all.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:50 (3 months ago) Permalink

No doubt, though I consider Isa to be one of the few missteps in their entire catalog.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

I've never heard it! Just reviving a band-themed thread... Still working my way through it all, but I just got Monumension today and it's really doing it for me. And Eld blew me away last week. And Vikingligr Veldi and Hordanes Land the week or so before that. I think it's time for Frost next.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:58 (3 months ago) Permalink

I just have Ruun and Vertebrae and like them both a lot.

― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 05:13 (3 months ago) Permalink

They're all great. My only issue with ISA is in the production. The songs/vision are fantastic.

I'm a huge fan of the Mardraum / Monumension / Below the Lights era.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 06:41 (3 months ago) Permalink

Eld has the weird combination of awesome drumming and a completely shit drum sound.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 07:36 (3 months ago) Permalink

haha nate totally in character here!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 07:58 (3 months ago) Permalink

Eld is my fave for sure

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 07:58 (3 months ago) Permalink

I remember playing Ethica Odini to Siegbran in soundrop and his reaction was "what happened to these guys :( "

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 08:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

Eld is amazing, but I kinda agree with Siegbran. Then again I hated Isa at first and eventually came around to it.

― fuck off like a diamond (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 09:55 (3 months ago) Permalink

Hammerheart1981 3 years ago
Enslaved thx for do Real Metal!!!!

― am0n, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:19 (3 months ago) Permalink

Eld is their best one IMO

― dog latin, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:21 (3 months ago) Permalink

I can see myself listening to Eld with great frequency, but Vikingligr Veldi... I feel like that's gotta be #1. It may even be my favorite of the early '90s Norwegian canon (that I've heard).

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

I'm a huge fan of the Mardraum / Monumension / Below the Lights era.

Interestingly enough, these are literally the only three albums of theirs I haven't heard. Given your endoresement, might be time to fix that.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:39 (3 months ago) Permalink

What did ppl think of the EP that was released for free through the Scion website?

― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

Got Vertebrae for €0.20 today in a library sale. I know I like Isa so... nice.

― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:26 (3 months ago) Permalink

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