RIITIIR
Occupation
- Grutle Kjellson (K. Grutle ) - bass, vocals
- Ivar Bjørnson (IS Peersen ) - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
- Arve Isdal - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
- Herbrand Larsen - keyboards, synthesizer, organ, singing
- Cato Bekkevold - drums, percussion
RIITIIR is the twelfth album by Enslaved. It appeared in 2012 in Indie Recordings / Nuclear Blast.
Formation
The band worked for more than half a year to RIITIIR, the birth of the daughter of guitarist Ivar Bjørnson " fell in the middle of the songwriting period. This has taken me pretty. " Otherwise, the work proceeded without complications. Bjørnson wrote the songs and created in his own personal sound studio demo recordings before he sent the material to the singer Grutle Kjellson and Herbrand Larsen, the " free hand " had their vocal passages. Roots of the Mountain was composed of Bjørnson's mobile phone. The album was recorded in Bergen in Bjørnson's apartment, the drums in Duper Studio and Larsen and Arve Isdals posts in Earshot Studios. Was mixed by Jens Bogren album in Örebro. According Bjørnson "all finished, as in mid-July last the color of the cover painting was dried. " Was
Style of music and texts
The compositions " live [ ...] more than ever bright by the contrast between the rough Wütereien Grutle Kjellsons and Herbrand Larsen's vocals, between (residual) aggression and catchy suspicious catchiness; all complex arranged ", where, according to Christoph Meul of metal.de " the two contrasting moods, the aggressive and relaxed, now so tiny portioned [ are ] that permanent alternation hardly leaves them still room for development. Something a lot of space, however, is Larsen's soft body granted what dangerously close together with the uncluttered sound to some moments to the tilting of kitsch, are broken against which many chapels in advanced career stages. "The clear voice " is prominent on the new work as ever before. " The album brings such strong renewals with it as its predecessor Axioma Ethica Odini, " but is instead the much-touted " natural evolution " in nuances. What in the case of Norwegian means that they have taken AXIOMA ETHICA Odini as a starting point and quite a few elements have added or enhanced. Varied and in every respect " Ivar Bjørnson According to the album is " greater than [ ... ]. The melodies are interesting, the gentle passages beautiful, the aggressive rough sections and so on, " The two previous albums might be specialized: Vertebrae ". Showed direct, presented the Metal ENSLAVEDs aspects into focus, " Axioma Ethica Odini " rather gentle, introverted side of our music. " For him RIITIIR representing " a synthesis of these two directions - and at the same time it invokes with its freer structures, longer songs and harder outbreaks on the band's roots ."
Thoughts Like hammer is loud Bjørnson " very unstructured and confusing " and according to Robert Mueller of the Metal Hammer " [e ] in subtle part, full of dynamics, towards the end then very melodic ."
Death in the Eyes of Dawn was loud Bjørnson According heavily inspired by Bathory Twilight -of -the- Gods - phase, while the thrash metal riffs reminiscent at Veilburner Müller to Voivod.
Roots of the Mountain contains loud Bjørnson " the harshest as well as softest moments ".
The theme song is called RIITIIR Bjørnson as Voivod - " Rip-off ".
The atypical for Enslaved materal turn is " influenced by Alice In Chains, old Iron Maiden and again Bathory ".
Storm of Memories is psychedelic and krautrock - influenced.
It is in RIITIIR a concept album. It deals with human rites and commonalities of ancient cultures. The name is an invented by the band rites of the English terms, rites ' and rituals, rituals ' derived and system modeled on Nordic languages and word art is " formulaic and simply put " for " the rites of humanity." According Bjørnson wanted the band " a word that the ritualistic character of our music reflects a distorted kind [ ... ] There comes no language but it is symmetrical and opens the mind, by inviting a lot of thought to exclude rather than all in favor of a clear statement - and yet provides the direction. " the lyrics are " connected by a loose concept that deals with the instincts that had people in vormonotheistischer time ". The band considered in this album " similarities that can be found in very different cultures and mythologies around the world. People from completely different corners of the world, without contact with each other seem to have almost exactly the same gods who symbolize certain powers divided - just under different names. So you can say that we shared an ancient metaphysical spirit world, the same irrational fears and the same penchant for something bigger, Göttlicherem as humanity itself " According to Robert Mueller were " [ t] he words in Enslaved [ ... ] often enough one, we put it politely, hard to looking hermetic structures of Nordic mythological motifs who refuse future reference when you look any deeper meaning "; Bjørnson replied, according to Müller "slightly peeved ": " In the world of our music they make sense ," but he knew what my Müller. Words were " There are only so difficult suitable to describe this look in the mirror, we operate with our music. If it soothes: There are no great esoteric concept in this album., Thoughts Like hammer ', the first song is still the most likely from what might be called the red thread. It sounds from the title, according to Nietzsche, philosophize with the hammer ' and all that, but it is primitive: it is about Thor and what he represents - destruction in order to build a new can, the breaking of patterns to rethink about can. , Materal ' is to some extent the opposite pole; Freya Thor, the feminine to the masculine side that says to prosper what is. "
Reception
Meul awarded 7 out of 10. Is simply because not even two, three songs ( so engaging some may have even taken in isolation ) fish or meat, none exclusively thunders of the Twelve or kept completely quiet - He missed " the large, all- around -causing tension ". He was " [b ] eim first round [ ... ] a little disappointed, but gradually I realized that it is better than the first impression would have you believe - with its contrasts between hard and soft passages and some strong atmospheric choruses ". Also Kjellson himself said that he " thought that the album can be little " at first listen, but the band was " now very proud of the result ." In Metal Hammer Album as already the previous album of the month was. Petra Schurer missed 6 of 7 points and wrote that the board leave the listener "not so breathless amazement as - AXIOMA ETHICA Odini, but instead is the much-touted, natural evolution ' in shades ".