Week #49 - The Nordic edition
8 songs in a pure wintery Nordic folk spirit
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Winter is almost here. Endless Greyness is back in the UK, and I'm off to (snowy) Scandinavia for a couple of days. Perfect mood for a fine selection of Scandinavian wintery acoustic metal tracks for your headphones. Some of them are pretty short, so I'm adding 3 more tracks this week.
Ulver - Østenfor Sol Og Vestenfor Maane ("East of the Sun and West of the Moon")
The mesmerising opening track of Ulver Norse folk album
Myrkur - RadmundÂ
Amalie Bruun, aka Myrkur, goes back to her roots in these new versions of Scandinavian traditional songs played on traditional instruments such as mandolas, lyres and a nyckelharpa.
Dimmu Borgir - Sorgens Kammer ("Chamber of Sorrow")
Drudkh - Why the Sun Becomes Sad
The only non-Scandinavian song in this week's selection. Drudkh is a metal band from Ukraine that released a purely acoustic album arranged in the manner of traditional Ukrainian folk.
Heilung - Anoana
Heilung means healing. They describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe". They use many instruments/objects from shamanic drums, reconstructed swords, human bones, throat singing and more.
In Flames - Pallar Anders Visa (The Ballad of Anders, the Thief)
Dissection - No Dreams Breed in Breathless sleep
The outro piano of Dissection masterpiece is a good relaxation track after an hour or the ragest black metal.
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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