Mid LP

Enslaved have drifted a long way from the Viking black metal they started with in 1991, and this seventeenth album invites outsiders further in than most bands in that lineage would bother: a Sámi artist and a Blackfeet elder each land a guest spot, on "I Am Ice" and "Spirit Helper." Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson still run the band with Arve Isdal, Håkon Vinje, and Iver Sandøy, and Nuclear Blast put it out.