ENSLAVED Mardraum-Beyond The Within CD (2000)

Norway in 2000 was doing something the rest of the world hadn't caught up to yet. Enslaved were already three albums deep into Viking metal and decided to blow the whole blueprint apart.

Mardraum, Beyond the Within is where Enslaved's progressive instincts started pulling harder than their black metal roots, and the result is genuinely unsettling in the best way. Textural, searching, and heavier than it has any right to be, this is the record that separates people who say they like Viking metal from people who actually mean it. Recorded in Bergen and rooted in Norse cosmology with the sonic ambition to match, it sits in that rare zone between Bathory's sweeping epics and something far more claustrophobic and strange. If Vikingligr Veldi was the ritual, Mardraum is what happens after the fire goes out.

Full length album, CD format, released 2000 on Osmose Productions. Norwegian progressive black metal and Viking metal.

Fans of: Bathory, Borknagar, Helheim, Primordial, Opeth