Wardruna are a Norwegian music group founded in 2002 by ex-Gorgoroth members drummer Einar Selvik (Kvitrafn) and vocalist Kristian Espedal (Gaahl), as well as Lindy Fay Hella. Dedicated to creating ...

Everything is cold, everything is beautiful. Neon lights pulsate in the dusky sky, heavy footsteps crunch through the snow and a hyperborean wind blows. "Stand up from your sleep" sing Norway’s ...

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 ...

Heilung jam with Siberian shamans and play with human bones, while Wardruna record songs submerged in rivers and on burial mounds. Now this vibrant undergound music scene is finding a wider audience ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

Wardruna’s fifth full-length was due last June, but due to the pandemic, the Norwegian neo-prog-folk band bumped the release date of Kvitravn to this January. Though Wardruna were born out of Norway’s ...

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