"Utgard". An album full of Nordic magic. But ENSLAVED prefer to leave it to all the other bands to sing about Thor's mighty hammer and Odin hanging from this tree in bad weather. Instead they deal with what lies behind it, trace the origins of these well-known fables of the Nordic world in each of us.
The unusually exuberant rock'n'roll influence of "Urjotun" or the archaic "Utgardr", the fiery "Flight Of Thought And Memory" or the melancholic closer "Distant Seasons" show ENSLAVED more open, focused and simply brilliant than ever before.