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"E" is the fourteenth studio album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Enslaved. It was released on 13th October 2017 on the Nuclear Blast label.
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Enslaved’s trademark sound appears to have been rebuilt from the ground up, subtly permeated by guitarist Ivar Bjornson’s Skuggsjá detours with Wardruna frontman Einar Selvik but also imbued with a wide-eyed questing for the next best way to explore heavy music’s untapped reserves of soul.
E reaches a startling peak on Sacred Horse: quite possibly the band’s finest song yet, it morphs from momentous fury to grandiose psychedelia before new keyboardist Håkon Vinje lets rip with a truly stunning organ solo that will have prog diehards foaming with approval. Axis Of The Worlds, Feathers Of Eolh and the closing Hiindsiight, with its warped doom tropes, squalling saxophone and tar-thick shoegaze shimmer, are all similarly extraordinary.
E is a joyous rebirth, a meticulous refining of a unique vision and, most importantly, one of 2017’s true masterpieces.
Reviewed by Dom Lawson for teamrock.com.
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