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Wardruna 'Birna' Artwork
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Review: Wardruna ‘Birna’

4th February 20254th February 2025 Sandy Williamson Folk, Music For Nations, Norse, Wardruna

Wardruna are more of a musical collective than a band, a group of like-minded individuals whose talents to bring an

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Eldrim 'Daudarstev' Artwork
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Review: Eldrim ‘Daudarstev’

1st October 20241st October 2024 Sandy Williamson Eldrim, Folk, Independent, Norse

When you think of Viking folk music, you are inevitably drawn immediately to Wardruna and their litany of special albums

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Heilung 'LIFA Iotungard (Live At Red Rocks 2021)' Artwork
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Review: Heilung ‘LIFA Iotungard (Live At Red Rocks 2021)’

9th August 202412th August 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Folk, Heilung, Norse, Season Of Mist

Heilung are approaching the latest hot new thing, what with being featured on both the UK’s Download Festival and the

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SKÁLD 'Huldufólk'
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Review: SKÁLD ‘Huldufólk’

24th January 20238th March 2023 Sandy Williamson Decca Records, Folk, Norse, SKÁLD

With the explosion in popularity of the Vikings TV shows, Wardruna and Norse culture in general, it is amazing how

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Heilung 'Drif'
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Review: Heilung ‘Drif’

19th August 202223rd September 2022 Tom Hanno Folk, Heilung, Norse, Season Of Mist

Formed in 2014, Heilung, Danish for ‘Healing’, has already released two studio records, Ofnir and Futha, and one of the

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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik 'Skuggsjá'
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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik ‘Skuggsjá’ CD/LP/DD 2016

29th March 201611th September 2019 Will Beattie 2016, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Einar Selvik, Folk, Ivar Bjørnson, LP, Norse, Review, Seasons Of Mist, Skuggsjá, Will Beattie

Forget the church burnings, the murders, that kvlt feeling when you hold your original pressing of Bathory’s ‘The Yellow Goat’

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Video Premiere: Froglord ‘Croak’ – Swamp-Soaked Sludge From ‘The Mystic Toad’ Repress

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Emerging once again from the Bristolian mire, the amphibious overlords known as Froglord return to deliver another dose of thick,

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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