Norwegian prog metallers ENSLAVED have announced the release of a brand new four-track EP titled ‘Caravans To The Outer Worlds’, which arrives via Nuclear Blast on October 1. You can watch the video for the EP’s title track below.
“This is the story that wanted to be told, and this is music that demanded to be heard,” says ENSLAVED guitarist Ivar Bjørnson. “Who are we to question that? After Utgard, the path ahead cleared itself – and we followed; past, present and future melted together in an EP that marks one giant leap for us. Into…”
The EP is supposed to form a bridge between what the band has done before to where the metal legends intend to head in the future. The effort mixes the “neck breaking riffage that points backwards to the raw beginnings of Enslaved with melodic breakaways and proggy slingshots onto new orbits…”
‘Caravans To The Outer Worlds’ will be available as four different coloured vinyl releases – cloud grey, moonstone, odyssey and springtime – and as a digital release. You can view the new artwork and tracklisting below.
ENNSLAVED – ‘Caravans To The Outer Worlds’ tracklisting:
1. Caravans to the Outer Worlds
2. Intermezzo I: Lonnlig. Gudlig.
3. Ruun II – The Epitaph
4. Intermezzo II: The Navigator
