Mid LP

Ivar Bjornson and Grutle Kjellson started Enslaved in Bergen, Norway, in 1991, and three and a half decades later they're still dragging black metal somewhere stranger, closer to prog and folk than anything strictly extreme. Mid is their seventeenth studio album, the title borrowed from the Old Norse word for center, following Utgard and Heimdal. They keep bringing outside voices in too: Johan Sara Jr. sings on "I Am Ice" and Kevin Kicking Woman turns up on "Spirit Helper", like a bar band that keeps waving strangers up to take a verse.