We’ve been waiting for this for a LONG time. A few years ago, the Quietus attended the By:Larm Festival in wintry Oslo and had our minds blown by Wardruna, the Nordic folk metal group who use field ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Norwegian folklore has an image problem. The reason why was on display during the sacking of the US Capitol, in ...
It would be easy to mock Norway’s Wardruna. Their name translates as “guardian of the runes” – they make music from goat horns, bone flutes and a replica of a German lyre from 500 AD. Frontman Einar ...
Traditional instruments, drones and repetitive lyrics make for some epic listening, possibly more suitable for a medieval TV romp Inspired by the heartbeat of a hibernating bear – a mere 9bpm – ...
Paganism in heavy music may be having a moment, but few do it with as much authority as Wardruna. Helmed by founder and frontman Einar Selvik, the Norwegians’ darkly expansive folk brings the natural ...
For Norwegian songwriter and performer, Einar Selvik, making music is as much about excavation, construction and refinement as it as about melody and rhythm. A composer of epic, culturally rooted ...
Paganism in heavy music may be having a moment, but few do it with as much authority as Wardruna. Helmed by founder and frontman Einar Selvik, the Norwegians’ darkly expansive folk brings the natural ...
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