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Heathen... Music eGroups Labels Albums Online Music Music Websites Radio Stations Podcasts Music & Singing Resources
"Professional" Albums: Reconstructionist, Revival, Folk Metal & Co.
Norse Myths (Prose) as Readings: Audiobooks Online
Heathen Music eGroups
Asatru_musicians:
Yahoo-group for heathen composers, lyricists, instrumentalists, and lovers of
music!
I manage this list - you are cordially invited to join and participate!
Heathen Labels
& Studios
Runic Era Records
-
A record label for heathens.
Heathen Albums
Hauk
"Path of Ice", "To Hear the Trumpets Call", "No Mercy for the Slain", "Love
Songs, Lamentations and Lifthrasir".
Hauk on MySpace.
Tru Spirit
"A Gift for A Gift", the second album by John Cyr and Ingmar
Lauer. The first album, "Songs of Our Heathen Ancestry", is no longer available.
Hildr
Valkyrie - "Deceitful Fate"
(2004)
Songs mainly about battle, Valkyries and Einherjar. You can read most of her lyrics
on Odin´s Gift, and at her website.
Sveinbjörn
Beinteinsson - "Edda",Sv. B.
By the founder of the Asatruarfelagidh, in Icelandic language &
performance style. Four tracks: The Prophecy Of Seeress, The Saying Of Har, The Lay Of Sigrdrifa, Poems By Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson.
My comment: Archaic and haunting. To our ears unusual style; nothing to hear as
"background" music.
Freya
Aswynn - Songs of Yggdrasil: Shamanic Chants from the Northern Mysteries
Including rune galdr and a rendering of the Havamal.
Tales of Stone and Ice -- Songs from a Heathen Perspective by Karen L.U. Kahan, Savagedaughter.net.
Skaldenhain
- German Asatru Albums by Armin Knorr - with MP3 clips and all lyrics on-site
"Drachenboot":
Straightforward Rock with guitars, drums, bass,
orchestra and choir.
"Perthro": Asatru Blues.
"Stahlzeit": Asatru Metal
Hør mig Aser - Ritualsange
Ritual songs with both modern Denish texts and Old Norse from the Older and
Younger Edda, sung by Gudrun Victoria Gotved. Several artists accompany with
lyre, percussion, rattles and hurdy-gurdy. Listen to all tracks online!
Heathen Online Music
Dano Hammer -
Heartfelt Heathen Hip-Hop, e.g. "The Happy Heathen", "Way of
Wyrd"
Piparskeggrskald Podbean
- A place to hear Piparskeggr's poems and songs.
SolMånens Forlag
- (Denish) Dankward E. Nielsen´s chants and
drumming. MP3 soundclips of his CDs available. Also, good articles.
Eddan
Based on a merge of various Eddic poems. The scope is a story from
Ginnungagap to Ragnarök,
the red line being the invincible sword forged by master smith Völund.
The project was finished in 2008 and first publicly displayed in Reykjavik/Iceland.
As of 2009, Edda is released on ELYZIUM classics and available there in high
quality.
The
Meadhall - Songs with lyrics & mp3 by Alwynne
(aka Hilla Hamasdottir)
Ragngautr Kindred - listen to several great instrumental pieces by Rob Crocker !
Triangle
Heathens - Music instrumental & vocal pieces by Danny. Very
professional.
Pip_Music
- Piparskeggr´s Music on Yahoogroups, both as lyrics and soundfiles.
Gimle Kindred of Northeastern Connecticut features an mp3 of The Havamal - sung by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson.
Ymir and Odin
(as streaming), to be found in
The writings
of Albert Burger.
He has recorded a number of norse myth themed songs (e.g. The
Choosers, Road of Life, Spirit and Power, Daybreak).
Available on CD, or in mpu samples at
Big Lake
Recordings.
Heathen Music Websites
Viking Age Music
Article on the Viking Answer Lady
The Songs of the Vikings
What kinds of songs and sounds could be heard in Scandinavia 1000 years ago?
Viking music on
Iceland From "A short history of
Icelandic music to the beginning of the twentieht century" by Hjálmar H.
Ragnarsson.
Anglo-Saxons Scops and
Scopcraft: Origins, performance style, boasting, chronology.
Medieval Music
Interested in Celtic, Germanic, Theodish or traditional heathen music? AElfric sings Anglo-Saxon poetry in Old English, in the ancient European "Bardic" tradition of Scopcraeft, uses the elder poetic form called Germanic Alliterative Verse, (as in Beowulf) and sets it to old fashioned folkish European melodies, often accompanied by the Germanic Harp.
Heathen/Pagan Radio Stations and
Podcasts
Ravencast - The
Asatru podcast. Monthly half-hour episodes with interviews and seasonal topics.
Also on
Itunes.
Interviews with the heathen musicians Hauk and Piparskeggr.
Raven Radio
- New Heathen Radio !
www.ravenradio.info
Raven Radio will be a weekly show starting at 11:00
am Mountain Time, for the first time on air on Sunday February 7th 11:00AM.
The show format will be 1 hour long set into 15 minutes blocks. Anything heathen
goes.
Spoken Lore - Weekly Saga Readings.
The Cosmic Cauldron - Pagan Radio Broadcast
Music & Singing Resources
Yuletide Carols: Seventeen heathen carols, traditional and new
Songbook with lyrics and sheet music, by Winifred Rose, Diana L. Paxson,
Kveldulf Gundarsson, Jenny Blain and others. 18 pages, stapled - $2.50.
Contemporary Heathen Music: A Review (Nov. 2002)
- by Jordsvin on his Norse Heathen Pages
The
Viking Music List
Very detailed and comprehensive overview !
Choral Public Domain Library
- with sheet music
Khoomei.com Very good
resource on throat-singing techniques.
Albums: Reconstructionist,
Revival, Folk
Sequentia
- "Edda", "The Rheingold Curse"
The original Eddic poems chanted in Old Icelandic, the
pronounciation and style of performance reconstructed as far back as possible.String and wind instruments are sparingly used. Transports you back in time - haunting
athmosphere, heroic and melancholy. My comment: A "must hear" !
Hagalaz
Runedance - "Volven", "Frigga´s Web", "Laguz -
Within the Lake", "The Winds That Sang of Midgard´s Fate"
Female Folk/Goth/Rock band with Andrea Haugen as singer. Inspiring,
dedicated, harmonious, a bit melancholy. Themes from mythology & the Viking
world. My comment: Volven rocks !! The Winds.. is good but very melancholy.
Midgart
- "Music between Fire and Ice: Songs from the Edda"
One man & one woman band from Germany. English lyrics paraphrasing Eddic
Lays, plus own takes on Norse mythology. Harp, tin whistle, synthesizer. My
comment: Nice, simple charm, but not overwhelming.
Hedningarna
- 6 albums
The name is Finnish for "the Heathens"; they sing some songs in Swedish, some in Finnish.
My comment: I have "Karelia Visa", very rhythmic and positive. I like
it a lot!
Various Artists -
Wizard Women of the North
A collection of Nordic traditional music revival, featuring a number of
talented female vocalists and instrumentalists.
Kate
Waterfield - "Runa Megin"
Experimental vocal techniques and healing sounds from around the world, fused
with elements of Scandinavian folk and contemporary electronic music. Two tracks
for listening online.
Erik
the Red´s Asatru-related Music - Legends, Dreams, and Myths
64 minutes Lo-Fi Acoustic Guitar with Erik's singing. 18 tracks, 6 whereof deal
directly with Odinist themes, and histories.
Valravn
- "Valravn", "Koder På Snor "
Powerful interpretations of songs from ages past, in Faroese as well as
Danish and Icelandic.
Valravn is flaming poetry, featuring elements of folk, rock, punk and
electronica.
Albums: Metal
& Co.
Therion
- "Secret of the Runes"
Both female and male operatic vocals, lots of different instruments, many
classical touches. Each song is based on one of the nine worlds. - Therion´s older stuff is more black metal/death metal,
and the newer more like dark opera with Norse and Atlantean themes.
Helangar
- "Evening in Valhalla"
Concept album about Ragnarok and some Norse tales, self-produced German metal.
Grave
Digger - "The Rheingold"
German metal, they sing in English. Concept album based on the
"Rheingold" of Wagner´s Ring.
Rebellion
- "The Sagas of Iceland"
Members of Grave Digger. Concept album about the sagas.
Leaves´s
Eyes - "Vinland Saga"
Great female singer, concept album about the Norsemen´s discovery of America.
Wizard
- "Odin"
Concept album about the sagas.
Tyr
- "Eric the Red" , "How far to Asgard"
This band is from the Faroe Isles and is a mixture of Viking Metal, Folk and
Progressive Rock. Almost like a Viking version of Dream Theatre. Heavy metal remakes of traditional
Faroese
folk ballads, as well as own songs in English about living
the lore.
Borknagar - "Gods Of My World"
and other albums
Viking/folk/progressive black-ish metal
Asatru - Viking heavy metal from the UK. Biography, band history, downloads, merchandise, and gig dates.
Stormwarrior
- "Northern Rage"
Speedy Melodic Metal in the style of old Helloween with a Viking theme; is
produced by Kai Hansen (Of Helloween/GammaRay) who even sings and plays on a few
tracks. An entire album dedicated to the Vikings and their history.
Doomsword
- "Resound the Horn", "Let Battle Commence"
Italian Doom Metal, very good singer with lots of viking themed songs. In the
style of Candlemass/Black Sabbath with Viking Themes. 'Shores of Vinland' is a
great catchy song.
Manowar - "Sign of the Hammer"
Many Norse themes among their songs.
Fire & Ice - "Runa"
Heimdall - "Heimdall"
Heavy metal from Italy, their self-titled album is completely devoted to songs about, well.. Heimdall.
Burzum - "Hlidskjalf", "Daudi Baldrs"
Bathory
- "Hammerheart", "Blood on Ice", "Nordland I",
"Nordland
II"
Heavily into Nordic themes.
Sonne
Hagal - several tapes, CD´s and LP´s
German band with heathen lyrics, more on the "tough/ready for battle"
side. German reviewers describe their style as "apocalyptic-folkband", "dark folk music", "classic
neofolk" in melancholy / gothic style.
Heidevolk
- "De Strijdlust is Geboren"
From the Netherlands.
Odroerir
- "Odroerir"
German. Viking & Power Metal and Folk Rock elements blended; complex songwriting,
German lyrics culled from the Poetic Edda.
Menhir
- 5 Albums
German Heathen Metal band.
Voxus Imp. - Idafeld
German heathen band, singing German. A unique brand of percussion driven neofolk/ neoclassical music that
experimentally combines various musical elements.
Norse
Myths as Audiobooks
P. D.
Brown´s CDs - by
Storyteller P. D. Brown, who draws inspiration from the tradition of skalds,
scops and bards.
Two double CDs full of enthralling retellings of the Norse myths, also featuring a
Yuletide ghost
story,
a little-known folk-tale about Freya, and episodes from the Egilssaga.
MP3 clips online.
Tales from the Norse Legends
Audio CD (Junior Classics,1995) by Edward Ferrie and Benjamin Soames.
An apt retelling of our myths, thrilling for adults and children alike,
accompanied by classical music.
Beowulf Aloud - 3-CD set with the reading of the entire Beowulf poem in Old English by Michael D.C. Drout. Includes introductory lecture.
Aergeweorc: Old English Verse and Prose - Audio Cassette
Norse Myths as Readings
- Online
Anglo-Saxon Aloud A reading of all Anglo-Saxon poems written in Old English, as MP3 podcast.