ENSLAVED

Cinematic Tour 2020

NUCLEAR BLAST

Bergen’s Viking metal expansionists celebrate an epic, three-decade saga

IT IS TESTAMENT to Enslaved’s 30-year career as black metal expansionists and extreme metal progressives that the breadth and depth of their sonic evolution cannot be easily contained to a single collection. Not that the four-part Cinematic Tour 2020 release doesn’t give it a good try, however, collating footage and audio from the band’s pandemic-era livestreams into a four-part collection demonstrating the sheer scope of what they have achieved.

With a little over three hours’ and are as close to the ‘standard’ Enslaved live experience; almost two hours of epic soundscapes that have been the band’s bread and butter post-2000. Incorporating elements of everything from prog to post-metal and even folk into a blackened core, the sets – recorded at Roadburn and Norway’s Verftet Online Festival respectively – are a primer on Enslaved’s position as one of extreme metal’s most majestic and powerful creative forces.