Enslaved download sheep

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"The Norwegian party Venstre (socialist liberal) has proposed that all illegal file sharing should be legalized. They haven’t put much thought behind the populist proposal and the rationale is basically that since the music is there people should be allowed to consume it freely...

So, in response to this the Norwegian metal band ENSLAVED took a cab out to the Venstre party leader’s farm (he happens to be a sheep farmer) and "downloaded a sheep" with the same kind of motivation: free roaming sheep are available and should be consumed! The sheep was then brought back to the Norwegian parliament, quite an effective statement."

Metalgutter stjal Sponheims sau - Side2

the link above also features a video of the band taking the sheep, and walking it around Oslo, it's all in Norwegian, but the video is hilarious.

 

[Kagami]

I heard about this the other day, still makes me lol

 

[Psychoface]

thats awesome

 

[InTheRavensName]

Grutle...he's such a nice guy

 

[NemesisTheory]

That rules so much. I knew there were more reasons than one that I liked Enslaved.

 

[CasualFitzy]

SO good. Enslaved rules.

 

[kung_fu]

Funny vid. Enslaved just became more metal

 

[Apophis]

 

[Naren]

That's awesome.

 

[Karl Hungus]

Dear god, that is legendary!

 

[Desecrated]

A very good move, I like it.
But stealing a copy and stealing the source is a bit of a different

 

[Ror3h]

Hahahaha fantastic

 

[7 Dying Trees]

best counter argument ever!

 

[Abhorred]

Enslaved = . Of all the things I thought I'd see today, Grutle Kjellson downloading a sheep is probably at least most of the way down the list.

For those of you who are, for whatever reason, unable to see the video in the original post, it's available on YouTube here:


And as an added bonus, here's some more behind the scenes footage with the band... and the sheep:


Seeing the guys chasing the sheep almost leads me to believe that that's what a young Immortal were after in their classic "Call of the Wintermoon" video: