Live Retaliation is the first live DVD by the Norwegian band Enslaved: a concert filmed and recorded at Studio Krzemionki in Kraków on October 7, 2002 and produced by the Polish label Metal Mind Productions. This is the American edition, distributed exclusively by Music Video Distributors and released on May 6, 2003. The disc inside is Metal Mind's own, made in Poland and region-free, and it is released by permission of Osmose Productions, the band's label.
- Recorded
- October 7, 2002
- Recorded at
- Studio Krzemionki
- Running time
- 1 h 7 min
- Format
- DVD · 1 disc
Disc Contents
| # | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convoys To Nothingness | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
| 2 | Jotunblod | m: Ivar Peersen / l: Kjetil Grutle |
| 3 | The Voices | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
| 4 | As Fire Swept Clean The Earth | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
| 5 | Heimdallr | m: Ivar Peersen / l: Traditional |
| 6 | Loke | m: Ivar Peersen / l: Kjetil Grutle |
| 7 | Queen of Night | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
| 8 | Mardraum | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
| 9 | Ridicule Swarm | m: Ivar Peersen / l: Per A. Husebø |
| 10 | Wotan | m: Ivar Peersen / l: Kjetil Grutle |
| 11 | Retribution For The Dead | m & l: Autopsy |
| 12 | Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor | m & l: Ivar Peersen |
Specifications
- Audio
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Discs
| # | Kind | Runtime | Chapters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feature | 67.2 min | 13 |
Personnel
| Name | Role | Also in the catalogue |
|---|---|---|
| Arve Isdal | Guitar, Lead Guitar, Soloist | |
| Per A. Husebø | Drums, Lyrics | |
| Kjetil Grutle | Bass, Lyrics, Vocals | |
| Ivar Peersen | DVD Design/Art Direction, Guitar, Guitars, Intro Music, Lyrics, Music | |
| Øyvind Madsen | Keyboards |
Transfer & Authoring
- Additional Electronical Music Performed By
- StrangeHagen
- Assistants
- Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Justyna Szarkowska, Wojciech Dziubiński
- Camera Crane
- Piotr Szyma
- Cameras
- Agnieszka Światłoń, Aleksander Trafas, Andrzej Nakowski, Bartosz Cichoński, Dariusz Posłuszny, Piotr Kotarba, Roman Piotrowski, Zbigniew Jarosz
- Cover Photos
- Andrzej Głuc
- Editor
- Darek Świtała, Michał Krzywda
- Executive Producer
- Tommy (Metal Mind Productions)
- Interview
- Michał Krzywda
- Intro Vocals
- Silje Wergeland (Octavia Sperati)
- Lights
- Lucjan Siwczyk (Transcolor)
- Live/Band Photos
- Kristoffer Oustad, Kåre Gustav Høyem
- Make-up
- Ludmiła Pilecka, Magdalena Wcisło
- Management
- Torgrim Øyre (Bergen Music)
- Other Photos
- Andrzej Głuc, Kristoffer Oustad
- PA
- Jarosław Kaszyński (Prosound)
- Sound Mix
- Piotr Brzeziński
- Sound Recording
- Monika Krzanowska
- Sound Recording Assistant
- Robert Nowak
- Stage Design
- Marcin Pietuch
- Stage Manager
- Jarosław Kaczmarek
- Transmission
- Krzysztof Rzepa
- TV Lights
- Bogusław Dąbrowa-Kostka
- TV Producer
- Tomasz Pomarański
- TV Producer Assistant
- Elżbieta Nakowska
- Vision Edited By
- Artur Wojewoda, Waldemar Szwajda
- Vision Mix
- Jacek Dybowski
- Vision Mix Assistant
- Jakub Zańczak
Special Thanks
Torgrim Øyre, Ivar Peersen, Herve Herbaut
The Concert
Twelve songs, about 67 minutes, reaching back across the band's whole first decade: "Slaget i Skogen Bortenfor" from the 1993 split with Emperor, Hordanes Land; "Heimdallr" from the debut Vikingligr Veldi; "Jotunblod", "Loke" and "Wotan" from Frost (1994); "Mardraum" from the 2000 album of that name; "Convoys to Nothingness" and "The Voices" from Monumension (2001); and three songs from Below the Lights, which the band had recorded the month before and which was not out until 2003. The set also has a cover of Autopsy's "Retribution for the Dead". Every other song is Ivar Peersen's music, with lyrics by Peersen, Kjetil Grutle (Grutle Kjellson) or, for "Ridicule Swarm", Per A. Husebø (Dirge Rep); "Heimdallr" sets a traditional text.
The line-up on stage is Grutle Kjellson (bass and vocals), Ivar Bjørnson, credited on the case as I. Peersen (guitars), Arve Isdal (lead guitar), Øyvind Madsen (keyboards) and Dirge Rep (drums), each introduced by a caption in the opening minutes. The booklet's biography explains the line-up: R. Kronheim left in March 2002, Isdal and Madsen joined as session players for the live shows, and after the Below the Lights sessions Dirge Rep announced his departure and Isdal became a permanent member. The crew was Metal Mind's Polish one: eight cameras and a camera crane, vision mix by Jacek Dybowski, sound recorded by Monika Krzanowska and mixed by Piotr Brzeziński, with Tomasz Pomarański producing for television and Tomasz Dziubiński as executive producer for Metal Mind.
The Extras
The disc carries an interview with the band, recorded in the Transylwania Pub in Kraków and conducted by Michał Krzywda; a band biography with profiles of each member; a discography; photo and art galleries; desktop images, screen savers and web links; and six audio tracks the case calls rare and never released before: "Sleipnir", "Gylfaginning", "Jotunblod", "Wotan", "Svarte Vidder" and "Viking Metal". The back of the case misprints the first as "Sleipnr"; the disc's own menu spells it "Sleipnir". "Sleipnir" was previously unreleased, the next four are pre-production versions of album songs and "Viking Metal" is a live recording; some editions issued the six as a bonus EP. The menus play Enslaved's own music - "Sigmundskvadet" from Monumension under the main menu, with "Not For Us", "UltraMagnetism", "The Waiting Kills Me" and "Cave Noire" under the other sections - with additional electronic music performed by StrangeHagen, music by Peersen and vocals by Silje Wergeland of Octavia Sperati. The case gives the whole disc as about 115 minutes.
The Package and the Booklet
A single case whose front is a montage of the band's faces under the ENSLAVED logo, the title set in lower-case blackletter, live retaliation; the artwork is by g-r-a-a-l.com. The six-page booklet is mostly a biography in English, from the members' first band, Phobia, in 1990 through the Yggdrasill demo, the Hordanes Land split, the Osmose albums and the line-up changes of 2002 to the trip to Poland "to record a live DVD stuffed to the brim with old and new material". Its last page prints the tracklist with each song's writers, album and label, and the full production credits.
The Object
