By: Chris D. - Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
** Unleashed nuevo álbum, Odalheim, está disponible 24 de abril 2012 en Nuclear Blast Records. Pide AKI
mientras que Johnny y sus vikingos sangrientos de alegría de observar en la
aceptación.
Eleven full-lengths spanning two decades in the
silly and oft-lethal record business requires a bit of fortitude and
self-reinvention. Well, Unleashed — long known for pre-dating Super
Wario Amon Amarth with their tales of Viking plunder and intrepidity —
has fortitude in spades. Blonde-haired and Viking-large Johnny Hedlund’s
been at the death metal game longer than most of his
been-departed-for-ages peers (that counts Entombed, for all intents and
purposes), as have original Unleashed members Anders Schultz and Tomas
Olsson. Unleashed is, as it seems, tough, even if they took a seven-year
sabbatical (uh, what’s the Norse word replacement?) between
Warrior and
Hell’s Unleashed.
As for self-reinvention, well, that’s perhaps up for a debate on
minutia. Since 1991, the Swedes haven’t strayed too far from their
original catchier-than-the-1710-1713-plague formula, and it appears
after a few stunted efforts to make Unleashed “rockier” they’re back on
the longship, readying for yet another biennial assault in the form of
new album,
Odalheim. This time around, however, the Warriors of
Midgard are teaming up with pagan/heathen battle dudes from afar — like
the Mayans, for example — to wage a metaphorical war on Christianity
and, as you’ll read below, the “White Christ”.

“After years of struggle and toil against the armies of White Christ,
the Midgard Warriors went across the open sea to gather the battalions
there, and to build an army big enough to fight in the final stand,”
rails lead hornblower Johnny Hedlund. “At the end of the (Vinland) North
American journey, the Midgard Warriors and their growing armies
traveled through the Sierra Madre and into Central America to meet with
the Toltecs, Olmecs, Aztecs and others. It seemed they had all joined
forces to build a rebellion against White Christ. They were now known as
the Maya Warriors. We joined for Blot and Celebrations to our common
task and for life long freindship. We had now grown to be a very
respectful army of warriors that set off to the European continent
again…”
Indeed, Unleashed is prepared for attack. And, of course, the quartet
wants you to be war-kitted as well by first sounding a 2:40 battle
call. OK, hyperbole dismantled, we have the new Unleashed cut, “Rise Of
The Maya Warriors”.
** Unleashed nuevo álbum, Odalheim, está disponible 24 de abril 2012 en Nuclear Blast Records. Pide AKI
mientras que Johnny y sus vikingos sangrientos de alegría de observar en la
aceptación.