Wardruna

A Norwegian musical project founded by ex-Gorgoroth drummer Einar "Kvitrafn" Selvik, Wardruna's beautiful, dark, and haunting music bears within it the sounds of global folk traditions, ancient instruments, rock, and ambient but transcends all of these labels. Hewing closely to Nordic traditions and using regional instrumentation (deer-hide frame drums, flutes, kraviklyr, jouhikko, goat horn, etc.), the group emerged in 2003 and has since released a string of well-received albums, including the Runaljod trilogy -- released between 2009 and 2016 -- which were based on a set of ...