Search - Satyricon, Enslaved :: Forest Is My Throne/Yggdrasill

Wow! Enslaved have just gained a new fan!

Cory G. | Vic, Australia | 09/28/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ok, since I'm the first reviewer, I'm gonna tell you what you can expect from this album. Well we have 4 Satyricon demo tracks from The Forest is My Throne, whereas on the Enslaved side we have 7 demos. These tracks are from Yggdrasill. The production is, of course, disgusting, but passable since the instruments are easy to hear most of the time. I haven't really been exposed to either band so I'll describe what I thought of each of their sounds. Enslaved is an intense package with the most insane vocals I have heard in black metal, along with a drummer who has actually seen a drum kit before he started playing it in the studio like unlike many terrible black metal drummers. The guitarists play some ver interesting melodies and the bass mainly follows the guitar most of the time. Theres even some acoustic action and some keyboards going on from time to time, not common, as well as some melodic guitar leads. I quite like this band and I'll remember to get some of their other stuff in the future, they're worth checking out. By the way, The Winter Kingdom Opus 1 is excellent (along with all the others!). In fact there is not one week song on the Enslaved set other than the song bearing their name, which is a little boring but still ok.



The Satyricon side is much smaller so the majority of my rating goes towards the Enlaved 'half' of the cd. Satyricon are not very harsh but are marginally talented, I quite enjoy some of the things they do on the guitar. The drummer is boring most of the time, he's decent but nothing more. The bass is a little harder to hear that Enslaved, not important but it would've been nice to hear it. The vocals rarely appear, but they aren't very special so it really doesn't bother me if it was totally instrumental. At times they remind me of Burzum (especially in the first half or so of Black Winds), but they mainly stick to a standard black metal sound with no originality. I didn't mind the Satyricon side, but I much prefer the Enslaved side.



Not bad, not just for hardcore fans, its a nice release, although I have no idea what possessed me to buy it, I'm not a big black metal fan.

Anyway, I think I've said enough, if no one ends up reading this, I'll probably end up moving parts of this review to the actual pages with the individual cds on it (if they sell them that is!)."