Enslaved "Vikingligr Veldi/Hordanes Land (2CDS, 2004 Reissue, Remastered, USA, Candlelight Records USA, Canus0125CD)"

Vikingligr Veldi (mistaken Old Norse intended to mean roughly Viking-like Dominion or Vikingly Power) is the debut studio album by Norwegian extreme metal band Enslaved. It was released in 1994, through Deathlike Silence Productions, the record label run by Euronymous, who was murdered before the album's release. The album is dedicated to him.

Vikingligr Veldi is an Old Norse concept album with lyrics mainly in Icelandic, with the exception of "Heimdallr" in Old Norwegian. Former Old Funeral bassist Thorlak Sigvaldason helped the band translate the Norwegian lyrics into Icelandic. The album's cover features the Anglo-Saxon helmet uncovered at the Sutton Hoo site in England, widely identified with the 7th-century king Rædwald of East Anglia.

Guitarist and keyboardist Ivar Bjørnson was 15 years old when Vikingligr Veldi was recorded and had co-founded Enslaved with Grutle Kjellson when they were 13 and 17 years old respectively.

Hordanes Land is the debut EP by Norwegian extreme metal band Enslaved. It was released in May 1993, through Candlelight Records, and was also released as a split album a few weeks later with Emperor's self-titled EP. It was a key release in the development of Viking metal.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 - Vikingligr veldi

1. Lifandi lif undir hamri 11:31   
2. Vetrarnótt 10:56  
3. Miðgarðs eldar 11:16  
4. Heimdallr 06:15   
5. Norvegr 10:56

Time:  50:54  

Disc 2 - Hordanes land

1. Slaget i skogen bortenfor (Epilog / Slaget) 13:09  
2. Allfǫðr Oðinn 07:47
3. Balfǫr (Andi Fara / Prologr) 09:51  

Time:  30:47

Two discs remastered reissue of Vikingligr Veldi (1994) and Hordanes Land (1993).

Recording information:

Recorded during 1993-1994.

Co-produced and co-mixed by Enslaved.