Ruun Music Cd

Enslaved - Ruun

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Ruun      Artist : Enslaved      List Price : $15.98 USD        Your Price : $15.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2006-05-02      Studio : Candlelight      Label : Candlelight      Avg. Customer Rating : (17 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Ruun      Satyricon Jr.      Rating:      Is it just me or have they become something of a Satyricon clone? Not that it's is a bad thing. This album is something of a rekindling of excitement I used to have for the band. Excellent songs with a nice cohesive feel, which lends itself to beginning to end enjoyment (if you can spare the time). Personally, I can usually use an earbud at work and this has been in my daily rotaion for weeks. Highly recommended.     Customer Reviews for Ruun Cd      5th on my best of 2006 list      Rating:      Black metal - check. Viking metal - check. Progressive metal - check. Enslaved falls neatly into all three categories, thank you very much. They have been in this "manly" metal business for 16 years, and they know what they are doing. Ruun is their tenth full-length album, and is following "Isa", a disc that many never thought that they could top. If they did not actually surpass the mighty "Isa", they certainly made a great effort, maybe even equaling that work. I have to give this band the credit they deserve. After being in this business for 16 years, they continue (like Katatonia) to produce quality work. They have allowed themselves to grow, having transcended the confines of black metal, exploring their roots, and successfully honing their talents to the point that the progressive route where they roam today is a perfectly natural environment. This is not an easy task, but this band makes it look easy enough since nothing on this album feels forced. Singing duties are shared between founding member and bassist Grutle Kjellson, who provides a black metal rasp that is sheer perfection, and the newest member, keyboardist Herbrand Larsen, performs most of the clean vocals. Larsen's vocals are above the norm, nicely performed and his voice is well suited to the style. The combination of these two guys singing/rasping in tandem (as in title track "Ruun" and sixth track choruses of "Essence") is a completely wondrous, nearly visceral experience, and part of what makes this band stand out. The musicianship is rock-solid throughout, from the lovely bass lines by Grutle on "Entorper", to the angular guitar chorus on the very experimental "Tides of Chaos". I really like the almost purely black metal vibe of seventh track "Api-Vat", the lead guitar solo at the end of this song flows beautifully into the final song "Heir to the Cosmic Seed", a song that just screams the word "progressive", with an instrumental reminiscent of great 70's prog-rock. Seeing how much I love this album, I am finding it difficult to find anything to say that has not already been said. This album just owns, so you should own it! I have to mention that I saw them perform live after writing this review. Grutle surprised me by doing a lot of the clean singing himself, and did it well. They delivered an excellent and polished live performance. and they were very "manly". yes, indeed.