Enslaved - Ranking the Studio Albums (including new album Heimdal) 

I started going through old school black metal bands that I for one reason or another hadn't listened properly yet and OH MY GOD Enslaved fucking rules??? I discovered them three days ago and have already listened to the first 4 albums and demos twice. Frost and Eld are INSANE!!! They're VERY quickly becoming one of my favourite bands and I trust your rankings as I would have my top three in the same order (so far) :) Great video!! ^^

Excellent list Eld is so good and is worthy of people's no.1 album. I always thought I was missing a good chunk of their discography but after watching this I think I've got the majority of them. 🍻

Vikingligr Veldi is the first Enslaved album I've ever heard and it will forever be my favorite! It's hard for me to decide between Frost and Eld, it really depends on the mood. Blodhemn, Below the lights, Vertebrae, Axioma would all be in my top half. It would be too hard and exhausting to rank them all since they are all quality albums! Btw Isoders Dronning is my ringtone for the past year or so, one of my favorite songs of theirs. Also, in my opinion, Yggdrasil is their most underappreciated song - it's so beautiful, I wish they had made more songs in that spirit.

Such an impossible task, top tier discography 🙌🔥👏👏monumension is my personal favourite Enslaved album which is almost everyone’s least favourite. Each album by Enslaved is unique and has something for every fan

Stoked to see Axioma Ethica Odini getting some love! Such a hard ranking, all of their albums are truly good, here's an attempt at mine: 1. Mardraum 2. Axioma Ethica Odini 3. Blodhemm 4. Eld 5. Vikingligr Veldi 6. Frost 7. Isa 8. Utgard 9. Heimdal 10. Vertebrae 11. Below the Lights 12. In Times 13. Riitiir 14. Ruun 15. E 16. Monumension Really 4-6 and 7-10 are interchangeable groups for me, but like you said, they are all great and hold special places for me!

Great video buddy, yet another band that I have missed. This will give me a good idea of where to start!

Thanks for another excellent album ranking!

This discography is ridiculously hard to rank, no even average albums with this amount of releases is just crazy. I only really got into these guys in the last 3 or 4 years so they're all fairly new to me. Here's how I rank them. 16. Blodhemn 15. Monumension 14. In Times 13. Ruun 12. E 11. Utgard 10. Vertebrae 9. Heimdal 8. Frost 7. Below the Lights 6. Vikingligr Veldi 5. Riitiir 4. Mardraum 3. Eld 2. Isa 1. Axioma Ethica Odini

What a tough band to rank. I said a few weeks ago (on your Heimdal review) that the new album might just be my new # 1. I enjoy every album. Frost and Eld were my introduction, back in the day, so those 2 hold a special place. Mardraum is in my top 5.....this would hours of thought! I really dig their EP as well... 🤔 🍻 Cheers! Thank you for all these great videos.

I got 1) Blodhemn, 2) Frost, 3) Mardraum. Strangely, I never got around to getting Eld! I will correct that mistake asap. Thanks for another cool video, man!

Good album ranking. Here are my ranking of Enslaved’s discography 1.Axioma Ethica Odini 2.Isa 3.Vikingligr 4.Runn 5.Frost 6.Below the Lights 7.Riitiir 8.Heimdal 9.Mardraum 10.In Times 11.Utgard 12.E 13.Eld 14.Blodhem 15.Vertabre 16.Monumension

Great ranking man! I've gotta listen to some of this band's albums, probably the first 3 would be the way to go? I have In times and Utgard on my albums list currently, but maybe the first 3 might be a better place to start? Cheers man 🤘🏻🤘🏻

So I figured I'd have some fun and compare your two lists. How much has your taste changed in 11 months? Not much, really. The biggest deviations are for the two albums Utgard and Ruun, who both fell down four places on your list. The greatest climber on your list this time is Riitiir (from 12th to 9th). Vikingligr Veldi climbing from 5th to 3rd is also pretty significant (well deserved, what a masterpiece it is). Just like you, I thoroughly enjoy all these albums. My favorite ever release of theirs is actually Hordanes Land, but I won't include it in an album ranking (still has to be mentioned though, Ivar was 13/14 years old when he wrote it, which is just mindblowing). My personal ranking: 16. Vertebrae 15. Monumension 14. Utgard 13. Heimdal (It's almost too early to rank this one yet. Safe to say I really do like it) 12. Riitiir 11. Mardraum 10. Below the Lights 9. E 8. In Times 7. Frost 6. Ruun 5. ISA (ISA and Ruun are really nostalgic for me as it was around this era I became a massive fan of theirs. I really listened the shit out of these two records) 4. Blodhemn 3. Vikingligr Veldi 2. Eld (Opening track is my favorite Enslaved song alongside Slaget i Skogen Bortenfor) 1. Axioma Ethica Odini (what a fucking masterpiece)

Wow, Heimdal is much higher for me. But then I did only discovered them with Utgard and went back from there. And apart from Eld I'm not the biggest fan from their earliest stuff. And I'm more on the atmospheric black side, so Heimdal really appeals to me. 1. Below the Lights (The Dead Stare, As Fire swept..., A Darker Place - Perfect) 2. Heimdal (Behind the mirror, Forest Dweller, Caravans, Heimdal - until now it's album of the year) 3. Mardraum (strange album, but so interesting) 4. In Times (title track, Building with Fire) 5. Utgard (my first album by Enslaved. The reason, why I now have everything on Vinyl) 6. Eld (793) 7. Monumension (Convoys to Nothingness, Vision) 8. Axioma Ethica Odini (Giants, Lightning, The Beacon) 9. E (very consistent, but not much stand out tracks) 10.ISA (mixed bag, some stuff outstanding, like Yggrasil, some songs are average) 11.Riitiir (Root of the Mountain, Thoughts like Hammer) 12.RUUN (good album, but no outstanding tracks like on ISA or Riitir) 13.Vertebrae (good, but quite similar to ISA or Ruun) 14.Frost (the title is program here. Cold and aggressive) 15.Blodhemn (Pure BM, not my kind of music) 16.Vikingr Veldi (Same here)

You know what I went from putting Isa dead last to loving it so you put E last I think its great but I cant even decide how I feel in these

It's what i like about metal, people having completely different opinions about albums, which in the case of enslaved, are all top notch. Eld as nr1 makes you really unique and rightfully so. I will just rank the albums i know: 1- Frost 2- Riitiir 3- Mardraum 4- Vikingligr veldi 5- Axioma 6- Isa 7- Ruun 8- Below the lights 9- In time 10- E 11- Eld

1. Eld 2. Below The Lights 3. Frost 4. Blodhelm 5. Vikingr Veldi 6. Monumension

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I also think Eld is my favourite and that top 3 definitely my one too

One of my favorite bands, love the ice cold black metal until "Frost" the same as their later and mid stuff. "Isa" came out when I started listening to extreme metal and was my first from them.

The most impossible ranking to do