Blodhemn
Occupation
- Grutle Kjellson
- Ivar Bjørnson
- Dirge Rep
- R. Kronheim
Blodhemn is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian Viking metal band Enslaved. It was released in 1998 with Osmose Productions. In addition to several re-releases, it was published in 2009 as part of a study published by Viva Hate Records wooden box along with the demo recording Yggdrasill and the albums Frost, Eld, Mardraum: Beyond the Within, Monumension and Below the Lights.
Title list
Style of music and texts
Like the previous albums, also Blodhemn is influenced by Scandinavian black metal and at first sounds blacker than the previous albums, according to Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic; by the generally shorter songs and the cleaner, more compressed sound, the album sounds according to him, " Swedish " than its predecessor, however, the album 's typical Enslaved penchant for experimenting on. While the predecessor Eld was epic with increasing use of melodic vocals and atmospheric keyboards and tended to Bathory Hammerheart, goes Blodhemn with shorter, faster, harder and " vitriolischeren " according to Paul Schwarz of Chronicles of Chaos songs that are more on the traditional Black oriented Metal, in the reverse direction. For black -metal- influenced music Urtical Gods and Nidingaslakt of their structure are very rock- 'n' -roll- heavy. Ansuz Astral contains a psychedelic / electronic conduction. I handlebars Til Ragnarok is in the booklet with the bracket remark Loke - provided del II), making it her second album is a continuation of the song Loke frost.
Reception
According Rivadavia, the band took the turn of the millennium, to close with Blodhemn the first from a stylistic point of view chapter of her career; from the successor Mardraum: Beyond the Within from 2000 Enslaved have their own sound significantly transformed with each release. Dark anthems like Eit Auga Til Mimir, Suttungs Mjød and the title song were " new triumphs ". Blodhemn was a " further step in conquering Enslaveds long and infinite musical evolution." Black Enslaved called "one of the few bands that are cleverly enough to challenge Emperor successfully ". For him, a " unwelcome step back " change of style over Eld had initially been that he had found, however, that Enslaved still have a musical goal that is as interesting as ever. He praised the talent of Dirge Rep and emphasized the band took the many elements that would have made Eld brilliant, not abandoned. The style had become more brutal and concise, and he had since Anthems to the Welkin Emperors at Dusk heard no more album, brutality and atmosphere mix as well; against this there was also a more powerful sound.