The fifth album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quartet on this album with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
The band had managed to get to five albums and had managed to stay with the same lineup for the last two albums.
Mardraum is olden Norwegian for nightmare and that is what we get here. The lyrics is still in olden Norwegian and about vikings and their wars. Some of the vocals are spoken words. The band has started to incorporate clean vocals too in their music.
The music is hard, brutally hard. There is clear death metal elements here in additions to the black metal influences in their viking metal.
This is the most heavy, brutal albums I have so far heard from Enslaved. The music is also more complex than usual from this band.
The result is a decent enough album which will not appeal to those into melodic progressive rock. There is a lot of interesting details on this album and that adds a lot of quality.
Check out this album if you can live with the vocals and the brutality of the music.
2.5 points
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