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Heimdal
Enslaved: Norse gods
NUCLEAR BLAST
As with 2020’s Utgard, Enslaved’s 16th album found new ways to map Norse mythology onto the deepest realms of the human psyche. Themed around the titular keeper of the rainbow bridge and harbinger of
Ragnarok,
Heimdal
was a rite of passage into the unknown, steeped in the belief that magic happens in the places
in between.
That sense of openness to possibilities pervaded the album as vast sonic vistas lurched into urgent, psychedelic quests with an adventurism undimmed over three decades.