Axioma Ethica Odini
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| Studio album by Enslaved | ||||
| Released | September 27, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | Duper Studios, Earshot Studios, Personal Sound | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, black metal, Viking metal | |||
| Length | 58:27 | |||
| Label | Indie, Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Enslaved | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Aftenposten (no) | (6/6) |
| Allmusic |    |
| BW&BK | (8/10) |
| Danger Dog | (3.75/5) |
| Decibel | (9/10) |
| Metal Hammer (de) | (7/7) |
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| PopMatters |   |
Axioma Ethica Odini is the eleventh album by Norwegian metal band Enslaved. It was released on September 27, 2010 via Indie Recordings in Europe and on September 28, 2010 via Nuclear Blast in North America. The cover artwork was created by Norwegian painter Truls Espedal who has created all of the band's artwork since 2001's Monumension. The album received very positive reviews from music critics, and sold around 1,400 copies in the United States its first week of release, landing at position no. 16 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.
According to Ivar Bjørnson, "The album came on the heels of our 2009 tour with Opeth, which introduced us to a lot of new people who discovered we might actually be something other than what they thought and it was good for us. It was a fresh, energetic album and it presented us to people in a little bit of a new way." The band had toured the United States with Opeth in May 2009.
The album title reflects the core concerns of the album's lyrics. It was originally intended to be split into two parts. According to Ivar Bjørnson:
'Axioma' "was from the basic form of Axiom in Latin, meaning self-evident truth. The whole process of natural universal truth, scientific truth contrasting to what Enslaved is doing which is very much about man-made truth. The starting point would be that everything is going on inside our heads." Grutle Kjellson explained that "The words Ethica Odini are the Latin translation of an Old Norse poem called Hávamál (Haavamaal) from 1655 I think, it can be translated into The Ethics Of Odin. It became a 3-word title actually by coincidence, Ethica Odini was supposed to be a sub-title, but the artist painted the words in a row. We saw at it and felt it looked better."
"The poem and Ethica Odini are our biggest axiom. Old ethics, old wisdom, old advice on how to interact oneself with nature and other human beings. The common spirituality, so to speak. It’s kind of a fist in the face of monotheistic thinking. We feel that a lot of the old thoughts written down in that poem are very much translatable to modern day life in 2010, and we have lost a lot of that type of reasonable thinking along the way through enduring centuries of monotheism."
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