Monumension - Enslaved

'Monumension' improves upon its predecessor 'Mardraum' and helps define Enslaved's progressive black metal sound, while still retaining some of the folk elements that would be absent later on.The biggest difference here is the complete or partial absence of extreme metal elements in numerous tracks, as 'Hollow Inside,' 'The Sleep' and 'Sigmundskvadet' owe more to the classic prog rock tradition, and end up sounding more like something Pain of Salvation might do than the band that released 'Frost' a decade earlier. Many songs feature psychedelic elements reminiscent of Pink Floyd, certainly not as full-blown as those found in Subterranean Masquerade's work, but ...  Read the complete review