Released 14 April 2003 Below the Lights
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(2004) Release date 14 April 2003 | Length 46:17 Artist Enslaved Label Osmose Productions | |
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Recorded September-October 2002, Greighallen Studios in Bergen Genres Black metal, Viking metal, Progressive metal Producers Eirik Hundvin, Jørgen Træen, Ivar Bjørnson, Grutle Kjellson Similar Enslaved albums, Black metal albums | ||
Enslaved below the lights full album
Below the Lights is the seventh full-length album by Norwegian metal band Enslaved. Beyond it being their last full-length for production company Osmose (they would move to Candlelight for their next studio album), a few lineup changes would take place. This would be the last album Enslaved recorded with Dirge Rep on drums (he also co-wrote two songs). They would also enlist a full-time keyboardist in Herbrand Larsen (who helped engineer the record), bringing the band personnel from four to five.
Contents
Enslaved as fire swept clean the earth
Critical reception
AllMusic's William York wrote a positive review of the album, writing that "for all its variety, this is still a fairly heavy, meat-and-potatoes album with plenty of emotional nuance as well. There are a few spots where Enslaved's ambitions get the better of them, but the experimentation is welcome in any case, and most of it does work. Below the Lights will likely stand out down the road as one of the top black metal releases of 2003." In 2016, About.com named it the best Enslaved album to date, highlighting it for being "everything the band had been slowly building towards was fully realized", fully unleashing the band's potential, and "their crowning achievement."
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Songs
1As Fire Swept Clean the Earth6:35
2The Dead Stare5:37
3The Crossing9:12