Enslaved

“It feels like an album that’s going further in a prog direction, but at the same time we’re shortening the songs, which is sort of a contradiction”
— IVAR BJØRNSON

of Norse mythology and Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s Shadow theory heavily influenced the, an album ultimately about diving into the unknown. While staring into the abyss could have cast a gloomy pall on the band’s 15th full-length, songwriter and founding guitarist Ivar Bjørnson instead brought an ambitious assortment of riffs back to our realm. “It has a lot of rewards, like humor and creativity,” he says of the benefits of exploring the dark side. “Sometimes a bit of chaos is what you need to get things moving when they’re going stale.”