Avant-Garde metallers Enslaved have shared a new single and video “Bounded By Allegiance – Live” – taken from their 2022 livestream “The Otherworldly Big Band Experience.” The band was joined by fellow psychedelic Norwegian prog band Shaman Elephant. This extraordinary performance took place on last year’s Winter Solstice. The single is streaming at all DSPs and you can watch the video now!

 

Listen to the ‘Bounded by Allegiance – Live’ single here:

https://enslaved.bfan.link/bounded-by-allegiance.ema

 

Frontman Grutle Kjellson stated,

“So here’s a little memory from last year’s musical endeavor. Our ‘Big Band’ collaboration with Shaman Elephant was such a trip! It felt like, and indeed it was, an avalanche of locked up energy just bursting out. The streamed concert plus a small tour in Norway was pretty much the only shows we did in 2021, so the energy level was pretty much turned to 11, on all of us. All nine of us!

‘Bounded By Allegiance’ was one of the first songs we thought would fit being dressed for a nine man outfit, with its natural percussive nature. We hope we were right, enjoy!”

 

‘The Otherworldly Big Band Experience’ was an Enslaved show like none other, their biggest, boldest project to date – a colossal, kaleidoscopic stage show featuring a stellar setlist covering their career, both past and present. Including some tracks never previously performed live.

 

Enslaved’s latest EP Caravans To The Outer Worlds was released unto the universe last year. It is a tale of departure, about leaving behind a barren and desolate world, travelling boldly into the future. It signaled the end of an era for the psychedelic Norwegians, hinting at new pastures.

 

Order Caravans To The Outer Worlds here: https://bfan.link/caravans-to-the-outer-worlds.ema

Watch the video for Ruun II – The Epitaph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdOaigtiXNQ

Watch the video for Caravans To The Outer Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcMQnnQYME

 

Enslaved are:

Ivar Bjørnson | guitars

Grutle Kjellson | vocals

Arve ‘Ice Dale’ Isdal | guitar

Håkon Vinje | keyboards, clean vocals

Iver Sandøy | drums