Band: Heilung
Song: Krigsgaldr
Album: Ofnir (2015)
Genre: Neo Folk
While I was looking for some music by a band that has absolutely no relation to these guys, I found them in the YouTube sidebar. As you can see from the image link below, they look pretty cool, so I decided to check 'em out. Turns out they're one of the coolest sounds I've ever heard.
Like, they play human bones (as well as other bones), have droning horns, throat singing, it's a whole package. There's industrial sounds in here, and this crazy aggressive undertone of power for such a relatively simple song. As this song goes it just layers bigger and bigger up till the last minute where it slowly starts to fade back out into bone taps and horn droning.
Will I listen to them daily? Most certainly not. But I love the music, it'll be great for background music that won't distract you cause it's not in english. I mean, I can't speak what they're singing at least.
Super good stuff though, I hope you like them. What was your take?
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This is beautiful. The bones are a little strange, but there is something special about them. Like a mixture of Vikings and American Indian.
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Oh for sure. There's a really strong spiritual undertone to the music that I wish I understood better.
DeleteYou're right, this is a most interesting sound. The building of the sound is incredible.
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I'm not usually a huge fan of stuff like this personally, but there's something about Heilung that just resonates with me.
DeleteJust replied to your comment on my Hellblade post - https://rolandclarke.com/2018/04/09/h-is-for-hellblade/ - and this music is amazing. I'm going to check the group out more as I suspect this is what I need as background writing music, especially with its Norse-shamanic atmosphere. I wonder if they are singing in Old Norse as well as English?
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I'm pretty sure they must be, it's such a powerful experience. I'm glad you enjoy it!
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