Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive. With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect. After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe. Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past. But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level. It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall. An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home. (Words by Jonathan Selzer)
Amalie is without doubt one of the most extraordinary women in the music industry today. I adore the fact that she does folk music as well as metal. Can't wait for the new album
You know, amidst the chaos of the world and the seriousness of the current situation we are facing, its nice to put headphones on and listen to something that puts your mind at peace
When I heard this song I've felt a rare and strange feeling of joy and happiness. I've felt like I was not in this world anymore, how such a beautiful melody could exist in it? A melody that would bring tears to the eyes of the Gods themselves. As if it was a sound from another world that reaches you and makes you want to live in that world. Makes you think 'if such a beautiful thing can emerge from that place I want to go there right now'. But then the song comes to an end and you open your eyes, it's the real world again. It's something hard to describe in words, you can only fell it in your core. This is how I describe "Gudernes Vilje", much more than just a beautiful song.
Reminds me *a lot* of Loreena McKennit. I would be very happy to have someone continue in that vein. I am not interested in the black / death metal stuff at all, but I love this album.
Every song released from this new album has been a masterpiece! This is going to be the finest Myrkur album to date. Cannot wait to hear the full recording.
To all native peoples of Europe: remember your heritage, honour your culture and ancestors! It is not racist to share an affinity with your own people and culture! It's natural to be wary of outsiders! God gave us the gift of discernment! It's time to be brave and stand up, otherwise traditional European music like this will soon disappear.
They sold the birthright of our ancestors to a strange god in exchange for temporary political gain. Many of the children of ash and elm are still asleep but we are awakening.
Christian Saxon Norwegian. I was born Christian and remain so, but I hear the songs of Nøkken when I pass the stream. I see the Huldra run through the trees. I see my ancestors and tribe play in the woods and howl as wolves, shouting Hagalaz Woðanaz. I see the Soppmenn and the Nisse of the Skog. I see and I remember. And so I write stories of these beautiful spirits and of Widukind and Verden. All Germanic people should remember and for us Saxons, we should look at Verden and remember what we lost.
@@Jürgen_von_SchumacherBased. This is how I feel. I will remain a Christian, but I will not be rid of my Germanic nature. I do not believe this is what Christianity asks of us.
@@DaniFilth87 hahaha At that time I actually enjoyed Ed Sheeran's song but I get what you mean. We definitely need some Myrkur. Perhaps in the Silmarillion🤞
OMG die nächste single die mir gänsehaut beschert und ich sofort tränen in den augen hab. Einfach so wunderschön. Ich bin so froh das sie dieses album gemacht hat und kann es kaum abwarten bis ich es endlich in meinen händen halte 😍 myrkur hat sich damit selbst übertroffen. Greetings and much love from germany in the lovely north of the earth ❤️❤️❤️
I don't know how I didn't find these songs earlier, since I listen to Myrkur for pretty long, but damn it I'm happy I stumbled onto this. Thank you for this, keep making folk music, this is amazing
This is awesome, really like the song. I'd just wish that the industry would chill on the LOUDNESS productions (especially for songs like this) and give us a more dynamic, non-fatiguing sound.
I thought it was only me, I had to lower the volume a little bit in order to appreciate all the music correctly, don't get me wrong, I loved this song so much! But the production it's a little bit loud; I totally agree with you.
Something about this is so captivating. I can’t stop listening to it. I feel like it’s magical and pulling me towards some place that I’ve never seen, but yet I’m longing to go.
Y’know, I absolutely love black metal, and am kinda upset that it won’t be on the album. But there’s no denying how beautiful this album is going to be :)
It is a folk record, why is it disapointing or surprising to so many? She has performed with both settings (acoustic/folk) and metal on her tours which are different but very complementary at the same time. Heaviness is not all about distortion and speed of light drumming, it is also conveyed in the lyrics/mood.
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Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.
With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.
After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe.
Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.
But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.
It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall.
An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home.
(Words by Jonathan Selzer)
How lovely
I hope she continues in this vein of folk music.
Yes, it's a waste of her voice to be screeching and growling.
@@Tom_Quixote I love her black metal and her screaming though
@@sylvanechoes black metal is for weebs
Yes its all gone,our masters is infected by greed
Reject modernity, embrace tradition.
Amalie is without doubt one of the most extraordinary women in the music industry today. I adore the fact that she does folk music as well as metal. Can't wait for the new album
Nathan Guerrette dit Latulippe I don’t know what you’re laughing at.....Because this is what I’m laughing at
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@@h3llokimmi3 mmmmmmmmmm
In fact, she can sing Kumba-Ya beside a campfire, and I bet It would be the greatest, most original and magical performance of this song ever.
@@zachariaszmosakowski3443Maria of Heilung is even better in my opinion.
Me listening to so much of this music is making my flowers bud early. Straight up through the snow...
You know, amidst the chaos of the world and the seriousness of the current situation we are facing, its nice to put headphones on and listen to something that puts your mind at peace
Simply beautiful. Pure transcendental European spirit. Our heritage, our forefathers, our collective soul.
...gone! ☹️
When I heard this song I've felt a rare and strange feeling of joy and happiness. I've felt like I was not in this world anymore, how such a beautiful melody could exist in it? A melody that would bring tears to the eyes of the Gods themselves.
As if it was a sound from another world that reaches you and makes you want to live in that world. Makes you think 'if such a beautiful thing can emerge from that place I want to go there right now'.
But then the song comes to an end and you open your eyes, it's the real world again. It's something hard to describe in words, you can only fell it in your core. This is how I describe "Gudernes Vilje", much more than just a beautiful song.
Don't read the lyrics if you want to keep that.
The lyrics make the feeling even stronger and deeper
Incredibly beautiful and evocative.......delicate as the first flowers of spring...
Yeeuch. You just made me have to swallow a little bit of sick
@@LouisWinthorpe622 Try swallowing a tree!
Indeed the "Will of the Gods" for us to receive such blessings this day!
So sad 😥, yet so beautiful.
Reminds a bit of Loreena Mckennitt, cool!
Yes, it sounds a lot like Loreena Mckennitts music. It's beautiful. Very different from myrkyrs black metal stuff
Beard Banging I’ll have to check her out, thank you
Same. In a good way. Nightride across the Caucasus came to my mind.
And Erutan and some of Kokia
Reminds me *a lot* of Loreena McKennit. I would be very happy to have someone continue in that vein. I am not interested in the black / death metal stuff at all, but I love this album.
A touch of ancient kulning! Beautiful!❤
Every song released from this new album has been a masterpiece! This is going to be the finest Myrkur album to date. Cannot wait to hear the full recording.
Most appropriate day to release, first full day of spring
So beautiful.
To all native peoples of Europe: remember your heritage, honour your culture and ancestors! It is not racist to share an affinity with your own people and culture! It's natural to be wary of outsiders! God gave us the gift of discernment! It's time to be brave and stand up, otherwise traditional European music like this will soon disappear.
How she does that at 0:50 blows me away every time.
her voice rly is something else. crazy
Just hearing this for the first time. Very nice.
Ou.. Very atmospheric melodies and beautiful voice. It's the best Myrkur song of all time...
Loreena must be really proud, possibly as proud as we are for Myrkur, awesome.
This song keeps you in the present moment.
Looking extremely forward to this album!
Hyper-beautiful MuzikK !
The intro is so Marveløus..
Real MagikK !
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So beautiful ❤️
All the beaty of Europe in one song
This is what I imagine valkyries sound like. Beautiful!
Beautiful~
Enchanting, calming, entrancing
Спасибо
I Love and Like every Composition.
This song is a masterpiece, keep doing this way Amalie!
The best album!!!!!
The guitar part is out of this world!
This sound is good And beautiful
Beautiful.
This is the way!
Sonbaharın savrulan yaprakları gibi ruhuma dokunup geçti 🍂
I love the energy of this music!
Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks for such refreshing music Myrkur.
Metal is not for her, but this I can listen to.
Amazing! can't wait!!!
So beautiful...
Best song so far
soooo beautiful!
I'm loving this album so much! I love your black metal albums too, but this just connects with me so much more. Thank you!
Beautiful
My fav !!
a mystic roots reconnexion
💎🌱❄🔱🌲🔱❄🌱💎
Explore your Pagan past. Find what they kept from you.
They sold the birthright of our ancestors to a strange god in exchange for temporary political gain. Many of the children of ash and elm are still asleep but we are awakening.
Atleast we no longer have to sacrifice animals and humans for food we now sacrifice our time and souls
Christian Saxon Norwegian. I was born Christian and remain so, but I hear the songs of Nøkken when I pass the stream. I see the Huldra run through the trees. I see my ancestors and tribe play in the woods and howl as wolves, shouting Hagalaz Woðanaz. I see the Soppmenn and the Nisse of the Skog. I see and I remember. And so I write stories of these beautiful spirits and of Widukind and Verden. All Germanic people should remember and for us Saxons, we should look at Verden and remember what we lost.
@@Jürgen_von_SchumacherBased. This is how I feel. I will remain a Christian, but I will not be rid of my Germanic nature. I do not believe this is what Christianity asks of us.
It has a minimalist vibe of Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmaments.
I could definitely imagine this being in the soundtrack for the lotr&th movies. Or generally being a part of Tolkien's universe❣
So true...and what did they throw in there? Ed Sheeran 😂
@@DaniFilth87 hahaha At that time I actually enjoyed Ed Sheeran's song but I get what you mean. We definitely need some Myrkur. Perhaps in the Silmarillion🤞
It's the sort of music Arwen would listen to :)
Wow, that's beautiful!
I really enjoy everything Amalie compose,very deep emotional meaningful music,dark and mysterious,ty
I didn't realize this was an original. I thought it was a traditional folk song. It's so beautiful.
So wonderful
Фантастична музика. Дякуємо з України, від всього волинсько-бурятського серця.
I hope your okay and are safe❤❤
OMG die nächste single die mir gänsehaut beschert und ich sofort tränen in den augen hab. Einfach so wunderschön. Ich bin so froh das sie dieses album gemacht hat und kann es kaum abwarten bis ich es endlich in meinen händen halte 😍 myrkur hat sich damit selbst übertroffen. Greetings and much love from germany in the lovely north of the earth ❤️❤️❤️
Life is better with the sweetness of your dear voice Amalie 💋
🌸💕😍💕🌸
I don't know how I didn't find these songs earlier, since I listen to Myrkur for pretty long, but damn it I'm happy I stumbled onto this. Thank you for this, keep making folk music, this is amazing
Chills from the forehead and all the way down the spine. Good stuff.
Magnifique
Magic
From pop star through quasi metal star to scandinavian Enya
This is awesome, really like the song. I'd just wish that the industry would chill on the LOUDNESS productions (especially for songs like this) and give us a more dynamic, non-fatiguing sound.
I thought it was only me, I had to lower the volume a little bit in order to appreciate all the music correctly, don't get me wrong, I loved this song so much! But the production it's a little bit loud; I totally agree with you.
mastering just cranks up the compressions output gain. been going on for years, really annoying. really kills the dynamics like you said
one of best songs i ever heard... greetings from germany
BEAUTIFUL!!I'M CRYING:))!!
tak
My favourite of the new singles 🙌🙌🙌
The album is amazing!
My favourite so far. Really beautifull and atmospheric!
Us men, waging war, for what purpose? Yet we never stop.
Thank you for this⚔⚔⚔🙏
When this album comes out, I'm gonna blow chunks of excitement! 🤭😍
I'm sure this will be my favorite album ❤️
Something about this is so captivating. I can’t stop listening to it. I feel like it’s magical and pulling me towards some place that I’ve never seen, but yet I’m longing to go.
Music as beautiful as Dutch Women!!
This is a song only strong mature minds can understand. Weak minds will despise it jealously.
Y’know, I absolutely love black metal, and am kinda upset that it won’t be on the album. But there’s no denying how beautiful this album is going to be :)
It is a folk record, why is it disapointing or surprising to so many? She has performed with both settings (acoustic/folk) and metal on her tours which are different but very complementary at the same time. Heaviness is not all about distortion and speed of light drumming, it is also conveyed in the lyrics/mood.
Her metal music is not black metal.
Gorgeous and etherial, like the nature of the north itself. Love this, can't wait til the album is out ❤😮
Beautiful arrangement, soothing voice... great work
😭 💔
This has got to be my album of 2020. I don't see how anything can top this. This will undoubtedly stay with me for the rest of my life.
im fall in love this music, and voice Beautyfull
Wow. Thank you, Amalie. I adore everything you make.
I hit the "Thumbs Up" as soon as her voice penetrated my brain!
Magnifique 💖
😭 💔 🙏 ⚰️ Gaëlle
I can only leave a heart it's so wonderful ❤️❤️❤️ Please more of this and keep it up 🔥
Not bad, I'm digging it.
The songs I’ve heard so far are wonderful
Amazing ♥
total trance
Guddommelig vind. ᛗ
Bonito
Nice work, this record is great! Sadly there is no downloadcode handed out with the vinyl, so I need to integrate my turntable into my car... -.-
I think I just shred some tears
She is in good company with the mighty Ulver. They did also a awsome folk music album.
What a masterpiece. Perfect from 0:00 to 3:57.
Yes, except from out of tune at 2:03 to 2:05.
Amazing, sounds alot like 'Lilys theme' from Harry potter