Enslaved, formed in Norway in 1991, built the bridge from second-wave black metal to a wider Norse and progressive register. Their catalogue is explicitly rooted in Old Norse mythology and the Viking world, and the band has long stood against the scene's reactionary fringe.

In the machine it threads Music to Norse Mythology and the romantic lineage, the cross-domain link the platform exists to make legible. The image is Georg von Rosen's Odin the Wanderer (1886). Reference entry, not a release. Reference.