Enter Utgard. Enter a record brimful with northern magic. Let all those other bands sing about Thors mighty hammer and poor Odin hanging from that tree in miserable weather conditions. ENSLAVED are looking behind the mirror, tracing the origins of the well-known fables of the northern world back into each and every one of us. Their new album is a journey into and through scary Utgard. Sounds dark? You betcha! Utgard shows ENSLAVED both unleashed and thought-through, a lethal combination unfurling a potential thats easily rekindling the furor of their early works while dancing gracefully through their most ambitious, most haunting and most musical tunes yet. A contradiction? Life itself is a contradiction. And yet we all live to prove it wrong. Utgard can be a very scary place, but thats exactly what this album is about, Grutle says. Conquering fear and living with the beings found in this place.