In Norse mythology, the figure of Heimdal is an enigmatic one. The guardian between the nine realms, after Ragnarök, he’s said to be the one set to replace Odin, representing a new dawn. There’s also debate on who he actually is, with some suggesting that he’s really Odin himself. Such a character is ripe for a look at through the Enslaved microscope. Indeed, singer/guitarist Ivar Bjørnson describes the band’s look at him on their 16th album as “going down a rabbit hole”, something that doesn’t so easily fit into a normal conceptual framework. This itself is instructive of Enslaved themselves. Thirty-one years since Heimdal first made his appearance on the then-youthful Bergen black metal outfit’s Yggdrasill demo, they remain a similarly hard to gu...