THE DARK WORLD

Fed up of the world being a shitshow? So are Enslaved. New album Utgard is about journeying into the realms of the unconscious instead, to rediscover yourself and your commonality with others

JONATHAN SELZER

In a world with all its bearings intact, Enslaved would have played the Fire In The Mountains festival this July just past. Set on a ranch in the vast Wyoming wilderness, it’s one of those events that binds environment and community into a bigger whole, the workshops and talks that were to take place alongside the live sets all guiding the attendees to rekindle rhythms too easily abandoned to our skittish, modern consciousness. Ivar Bjørnson, Enslaved guitarist and, along with frontman Grutle Kjellson, founder member of a band whose musical and philosophical horizons are ever expanding, is taking the long view: “We’ve been around for almost 30 years, so what’s another decade?” he laughs. “They had this incredible non-music programme,” he continues from his Bergen home. “We were looking into…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020

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