ENSLAVED

Release Year: 2019
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: dramatic epic viking black metal

...and the sky burns red: ultimately epic and majestic, magical third full-length [1997] by notorious Bergen vikings with a debuting Harald Helgeson on drums remains a benchmark recording in pagan/black metal community, still very conservative at the time: it was among the first times in genre's history evolving from the second wave extreme scene to integrate progressive rock and traditional folk elements, as well as hymnic, harmonious singing into stringent underground music formula, which later evolved in few separate directions like folk metal and viking metal, where the length of grandiose opener 793 [Slaget Om Lindisfarne] surpasses sixteen minutes mark, what was real unusual back in the day as well; recent French edition comes with an updated design