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Spirit Helper.

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Norwegian progressive metal ensemble Enslaved have unveiled "Spirit Helper," a collaboration with Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation. You can check it out below.Enslaved guitarist and co-founder I...

Enslaved share a brand new collaboration with Kevin Kicking Feet, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana.

The collaboration came about through Enslaved's association with the annual 'Fire In The Mountains' festival.

Norwegian legends Enslaved pair with Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation, in a collaboration born from friendship and cultural exchange.

Norwegian progressive trailblazers ENSLAVED have revealed "Spirit Helper", a unique and deeply powerful collaboration with Kevin Kicking Woman, a tribal member of the Blackfeet/Cree Nation in Montana. "Spirit Helper" has arisen partly from a relationship with Fire In The Mountains, which takes place...

After revealing that they were working on new material, Norwegian progressive trailblazers Enslaved have just released a special song today. It's a unique and powerful collaboration with Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation. The song has arisen partly from a relationship with Fire In The Mountains, which takes place each year within the Blackfeet Nation, Montana. Enslaved will be returning...

Ahead of Enslaved’s upcoming appearance at the Fire in the Mountains festival in Montana, the Norwegian metal force have unveiled a new collaborative track that finds them working alongside Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation. Their “Spirit Helper” is described in a press release as “a song about connection between past and present, traditions and people, and the spiritual and human worlds.” The origins of the track stretch back to 2019 as Enslaved began communication with the fest organizers — they were to play in 2020, but the pandemic put that year’s lineup on pause; they’d headline the 2022 edition of Fire in the Mountains that took place in Moran, Wyoming. Enslaved guitarist Ivar Bjørnson explains that he’d also attendee the 2025 edition, at which fellow Norwegians Wardruna were performing. A later gathering in New York between Fire in the Mountains organizers and Enslaved introduced the band to a “traditional morning prayer” that Kevin Kicking Woman had been singing, which became the foundation of “Spirit Helper. Bjørnson says the band understood the responsibility of re-interpreting the prayer, and says their adaptation “stands as one of the most meaningful musical journeys we have undertaken.” “Throughout Enslaved’s history, mythology and spiritual traditions have functioned as a language within our music a way of connecting personal experience with deeper human memory and history,” the guitarist explains in a statement. “Meeting members of the Blackfeet community felt like encountering another expression of that same search for meaning, continuity, and connection.” “Songs are the Blackfoot way of knowing —Expressing relationship and responsibility, belonging and accountability,” Kevin Kicking Woman adds. “The purpose of this song is having the performative expression giving meaning to life. Connecting to the universes through the cosmos, earth beings, water beings and spirit beings. ‘Spirit Helper’ is the physical documentation in this process.” “Spirit Helper” moves through various sections pairing Kevin Kicking Woman’s traditional singing with mood-stirring, metallic epic-ness. Closer to the end, the arrangement has samples of crackling thunder colliding against intensely rumbling tom-drum hits and black-metal-esque guitar trilling. You can check out the groove in full up above. The song is Enslaved’s first release since 2023 full-length Heimdal. This year’s Fire in the Mountain festival takes place on Blackfeet Nation, at East Glacier, Montana’s Red Eagle Campground. The bill also features Neurosis’ first live performance in 7 years, a reunion set from gothic country legends Sixteen Horsepower, plus sets from Baroness, Full of Hell, Between Two Worlds, Yob, Sub Rosa, Old Man Gloom and many more.

Norwegian legends Enslaved revealed that they are working on new material for their next music output. The group's last studio album, Heimdal, was released in 2023. More info in due time.

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