ENSLAVED shares new single 'Tales Of Trees',
Announces February 2027 European tour with SÓLSTAFIR
25-09-2026
Last month, progressive metal band ENSLAVED announced their upcoming studio album, “Mið”, set for release on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band now unveiled the album’s next single, “Tales Of Trees”. ENSLAVED also announce a European tour in February 2027 as a co-headline with Iceland’s SÓLSTAFIR, with support coming from Norway’s GAAHLS WYRD.
Watch “Tales Of Trees” below.
ENSLAVED guitarist Ivar Bjørnson adds: “‘Tales Of Trees’ can be both a tribute to our wooden relatives on this planet — who have had rather a lot of patience with us — and a metaphor for so much more. The winding time signatures of folk music and the adventurous spirit of classic prog are natural ingredients in my songwriting, and they feel particularly at home here. There is something about our kinship with trees that is both deeply familiar and wonderfully strange: everyday encounters with something we barely understand. That sense of recognition and mystery is at the heart of this song, opening another path into the world of ‘Mið’.”
Watch the previously released “Solar Will” and “Spirit Helper” (featuring Kevin Kicking Woman) below.
“Mið” track listing:
01. Non-Being
02. I Am Ice (featuring Johan Sara Jr)
03. Solar Will
04. Mountain
05. Spirit Helper (featuring Kevin Kicking Woman)
06. Parting
07. Tales of Trees
08. I Miðju
ENSLAVED‘s new album, “Mið”, an Old Norse word for “center” or “middle”, marks another departure, and another new beginning. The band have always dealt in states of transition, nor least on the thematically linked, mythology-steeped rites of passage that were 2020’s “Utgard” and 2023’s “Heimdal”. What lay beyond, however, was… unexpected.
ENSLAVED is:
Ivar Bjørnson – guitars
Grutle Kjellson – vocals, bass
Arve “Ice Dale” Isdal – guitar
Håkon Vinje – keyboards
Iver Sandøy – drums
To celebrate the arrival of “Mið”, ENSLAVED will hit the road across Europe in February 2027 as a co-headline with Iceland’s SÓLSTAFIR, with support coming from Norway’s GAAHLS WYRD.
ENSLAVED commented: “Europe! In February we are heading out on a co-headlining tour with our good friends in SÓLSTAFIR. There is a kinship here that goes beyond a shared enthusiasm for questionable weather: the belief that music should be allowed to find its own path, even when it refuses to explain where it is going. Bringing ‘Mið’ into that company, and into a room with all of you, feels very right. Making a record is one part of the adventure; discovering what happens to it when we meet you out there is another. That exchange still means everything to us. See you in the flesh!”
Tickets will go on-sale on September 25 at 9 a.m. BST / 10 a.m. CEST from enslaved.no.
ENSLAVED and SÓLSTAFIR 2027 co-headline tour with GAAHLS WYRD:
Feb. 04 – DE Berlin, Festsaal
Feb. 05 – DE Leipzig, Felsenkeller
Feb. 06 – DE Hamburg, Fabrik
Feb. 07 – DK Copenhagen, Amager Bio
Feb. 08 – DE Frankfurt, Batschkapp
Feb. 09 – FR Strasbourg, La Laiterie
Feb. 11 – FR Rennes, Antipode
Feb. 12 – FR Clermont-Ferrand, La Cooperative de Mai
Feb. 13 – FR Toulouse, Le Metronum
Feb. 14 – ES Barcelona, Razzmatazz 2
Feb. 16 – FR Paris, Elysee Montmartre
Feb. 17 – UK London, Electric Ballroom
Feb. 18 – BE Liege, OM
Feb. 19 – NL Nijmegen, Doornroosje
Feb. 20 – NL Utrecht, Tivoli Pandora
Feb. 21 – DE Cologne, Live Music Hall
Feb. 23 – CH Solothurn, Kofmehl
Feb. 24 – IT Milan, Magnolia
Feb. 25 – AT Vienna, SIMM City
Feb. 26 – PL Warsaw, Progresja
Feb. 27 – CZ Brno, Fleda
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