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Last week, Enslaved announced their Cinematic Summer Tour - an innovative digital tour comprised of three online events, in conjunction with three of Europe’s leading festivals.

Today, the band are proud to reveal details for the first event: on July 30th in collaboration with Roadburn, the tour will launch with a unique “Chronicles Of The Northbound” show.

Fans are invited to Vote Now for their five favourite Enslaved songs, to help create a career spanning set.

Enslaved today announce their Cinematic Summer Tour 2020!

After a successful, innovative streaming event on April 1st from Verftet Online Music, the Norwegian avant garde metal heroes will be taking it one step further to enlighten our concert-less summer with a series of online events that are much more than just streamed concerts...

A cinematic tour experience! 

Today, Norwegian avantgarde metal heroes Enslaved release their new single “Homebound” taken from their upcoming record “Utgard”, that will be released in autumn 2020.  

Watch the video for “Homebound” below. Get the new single here. 

The band states:

Norwegian avantgarde metal heroes Enslaved will release their new album “Utgard” in autumn 2020.

Today, the band reveal some new details about the upcoming record that propel the listener deep into the world “between” as the musicians explain:

Norwegian blackened avant-gardists Enslaved reached out to their fans yesterday, to present them the cover artwork for their upcoming 15th studio album, “Utgard”, set to be released in Autumn this year.

Enslaved’s official statement reads as follows:

Greek psychedelic prog metal band and Agonia Records recent signees, Hail Spirit Noir, announce details surrounding their forth studio album, follow up to “Mayhem in Blue” from 2016.

Titled “Eden in Reverse”, the new album is set to be released on June 19th, 2020, via Agonia Records. Watch a trailer for “Eden in Reverse” below.

Greek psychodelic prog metal band Hail Spirit Noir have signed a record deal with Agonia Records. The sextet’s new album is complete and has been slated for a tentative release in June 2020.

After having returned to the studio, Enslaved now tease their fans with new pictures from a breath-taking video shoot that frontman Grutle Kjellson undertook this January, around the south coast of Iceland and Reykjanes.

Grutle Kjellson on the video shoot in Iceland:

Progressive-death metal band Isle Of The Cross has inked a worldwide deal with Rockshots Records for the release of their debut album “Excelsis”.

Isle Of The Cross is a progressive metal band led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Je Schneider, infused with a blend of the avant-garde realms of extreme, symphonic, melodic and technical death metal.

Norwegian metal avant-gardists Enslaved have some big news for their fans: the band have just entered the studio and are currently working on new material for their upcoming album. This new gem will be released once again via Nuclear Blast Records and has a tentative release date of May 2020.

Band founding member and guitarist Ivar Bjørnson stated about the recordings: