Official Polishpressed music cassette. Grey cassette with brown text. Limited 75copies

It´s now twodecades after their birth in Norway and Enslaveds 2012 album,`Riitiir´, will once again surprise even those who are familiarwith their non-linear development. The band´s sound - complete withcastanets this time around - is more than ever their own; theunderlying thoughts and influencing events more deeply engaged.`Riitiir´ embodies a lot more of what has come to be known asEnslaved: indefinable and grandiose, honest and unearthly, dark,harsh, and beautiful. For this album the many elements of therecording process are similar to that of the previous few albums.Again, the team of producers came from within the band itself: IvarBjornson, Grutle Kjellson, Herbrand Larsen - this time completed byIver Sandoy. The producers travelled to Fascination Street Studiosin Orebro, Sweden, where Jens Bogren mixed and Tony Lindgrenmastered the album. `This time it was all about expanding a winningteam rather than changing it´, states guitarist / songwriter /founding member Ivar Bjornson on Riitiir´s creation process. "Ihave to personally admit that expanding the producer team toinclude a member from outside the band has had its massivechallenges for me, but the result is without a doubt better than Ihad ever dreamed of. Once again, we have learned something aboutfinding the ideal recording process for Enslaved, and for that I ameternally grateful to all the involved parties. About the finishedwork, Bjornson admits that it´s difficult to describe, although thesong lengths on the album were never premeditated: `It sounds likeEnslaved, whatever that means. There are so many layers anddifferent focal points. It has a deeper complexity than ourprevious efforts, but I do find it more catchy and moving. Thenagain, I am the opposite of objective in this, so again I´ll leaveit up to the people outside the band to make up their mind. I´vepoured my work, dedication and inspiration into this (at one point,guitars were being written and recorded in my home studio, while Iwas waiting for the phone call from the hospital that would admitmy wife and I to the Labor Ward to receive our firstborn), and Ihave a feeling that it has more of everything: the beautiful ismore beautiful while the harsher is harsher. That it ended up beingthe longest album we´ve made so far was something we discovered byaccident when we made the first rough mixes after the recordings.We forgot to think about length during the making and rehearsing ofthe album before recording it! We sat down and thought about it:did it mean we hadn´t been critical enough with regards to thetime? Upon listening through the recordings with the proverbialscissors in mind, we couldn´t find anything we absolutely didn´twant to keep. I´ll take that as a good sign´. Enslaved are knownfor having driving concepts in their albums, but what drivesRiitiir? Bjornson elaborates: "The title is a self-made`Norse-ified´ version of the words `Rites´ / `Rituals.´ Riitiir =`The Rites of Man,´ to put it in a formulaic and easy way. We´vebuilt structures that lay above the independent lyrics that we feelmore comfortable with letting the reader explore, interpret, orsimply discard themselves. Their meanings are entirely up to them."Whether you´re drawn into the genesis myth of the album´s openingtrack "Thoughts Like Hammers" or experience the stratosphere with"Veilburner," enter some sacred grove via `Roots Of The Mountain"or long to leave your body after "Death In The Eyes Of Dawn,"Enslaved continue to explore their perception of place in thenatural world and challenge the limits of their own self-knowledge,thus ever-expanding the landscape of their musical ecology. Likeall albums before them, Riitiir reflects the intimacy with wherethe band has been which leads us all, their listeners, to the placewithin ourselves that preserves the luminous fibres that connect usto the wisdom in the open air that, in turn, brings meaning to ourmysteries, our memories, our landscapes, and our lives… if only welet it.

Track list:
1. Thoughts Like Hammers
2. Death In The Eyes Of Dawn
3. Veilburner
4. Roots Of The Mountain
5. Riitiir
6. Materal
7. Storm Of Memories
8. Forsaken

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Conditioncassette: mint

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