Enslaved. Norweigan metal heroes!!!

In a recent televised stunt, two members of Norwegian black metal band
ENSLAVED stole a free-grazing sheep that were the property of
politician/Liberal Party leader/farmer Lars Sponheim.

It seems Sponheim's Liberal Party has been advocating the legalization
of all illicit Internet downloading. They say the business is already
freely accessible and downloading should be legalized. ENSLAVED think
that argument is weak and decided to prove it via stealing his sheep.
They counter that that bands are just small businesses and legalizing
free downloading is against everything the party claims to stand for.
So you guys wanna steal our music, we'll steal your sheep. That's
fair, right?

Turns out the stunt was staged as a part of the larger campaign
against downloading called Piracy Kills Music that is being waged by
Norwegian bands and other music industry members.

Oh, despite what you might assume, ENSLAVED did not eat the sheep.
They set it free into the mountains.

See, even black metal bands have hearts…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QhnaLkgfDZE

ENSLAVED are now my poster boys!  Love 'em!

 Yeesh! -- let's just say you better have "safe search" on when you Google a word like "enslaved"....

Edited by Peter - October 23 2007 at 19:06

On a serious note, it is a great exmple of the double standards people have, and shows quite learly that taking something that does NOT belong to you IS theft, that may be a sheep, or freely downloading music that you have not paid for.

oh, ok, I put it in here as

I remember Enslaved used to be adamant about being labeled as Viking Metal because they did not want to be involved in the Black metal image. Is this still true today or was that just during all the church burnings?

I do know that they used to sing in old Norse before recognition got them singing in English to please their large market in the USA.

prog-chick wrote: It seems Sponheim's Liberal Party has been advocating the legalization of all illicit Internet downloading. They say the business is already freely accessible and downloading should be legalized. ENSLAVED think that argument is weak and decided to prove it via stealing his sheep. They counter that that bands are just small businesses and legalizing free downloading is against everything the party claims to stand for. So you guys wanna steal our music, we'll steal your sheep. That's fair, right?

A cute stunt, but not entirely a fair comparison. The Liberal Party wants to compensate the artists and composers with some kind of compensation system similar to that being used in the radio industry. Enslaved didn't want to compensate the owner of the sheep, so they put it back. Shows in one single move why electronic and physical ownership cannot be compared.