Reeder (30 June 2020). "HEILUNG Music Used in Popular 'Vikings' Series". metaladdicts.com . Retrieved 30 January 2022. Heilung released their third studio album, Drif, on 19 August 2022 through Season of Mist. [11] The album peaked at No. 9 and No. 25 in the German and Austrian album charts respectively. [12] Style [ edit ]

By 2019, HEILUNG launched their second full-length record, ‘Futha,’ which contrasted the masculine and battle-heavy themes of their debut with a feminine counterpart that celebrated fertility and female energy. Upon the first week of the record’s release, it graced the Billboard charts with coveted numbers, debuting at #3 on the Heatseekers Charts and #4 on the Billboard World Music Chart, placing on a total of seven Billboard charts while meeting critical-acclaim from the press on a global scale. Music that connects us to a primal past is something that has become more popular in the modern age, as we seek to reconnect with the Mother Earth that lives beneath our feet. None create this music better than mysterious and ethereal HEILUNG (meaning ‘healing’ in German). The trio hailing from Denmark, Norway, and Germany have undergone a meteoric rise since their inception in 2015. The band’s celestial and esoteric spirituality, coupled with their deeply conceptional and highly atmospheric music has built a bridge between the ancient world and the modern that all of us can cross. Unlike the band’s previous offerings that were centred around prehistoric northern Europe, Drif sees them explore the ancient civilisations and peoples outside northern Europe. Utilising ancient inscriptions, Roman military poems, Celtic battles and rune spells for lyrical inspiration, Drif shows HEILUNG in a form that you have never seen them before. Is this for everyone? Absolutely not. While it does have an inherent emotive quality and leans into darkness on a regular basis, it’s not a ‘metal’ album nor does it have crossover appeal. You’re not likely to be hearing songs from Drif on the radio anytime soon. Yet, those willing to brave it and experience the story-telling of Heilung will surely find themselves invested and fascinated by the experience.There are many words that can be used to describe the music that Heilung have to showcase on Drif. Words like ‘primitive’, ‘haunting’, ‘dangerous’, ‘poignant’ and even ‘epic’, yet none can truly do justice to the unique sound that grows and grows throughout Drif’s near-hour runtime. Such is the enigmatic style of the collective, Drif is as unpredictable as it is captivating and it is very, very captivating. Given the geographical shift the band have experienced through the creation of Drif, there is a new warmth to their music reflective of the more southerly parts of Europe and North Africa that the band have been inspired by. With clever post-production the band have revealed a new perspective on the sounds that their ancient and archaic instrument can create, building up ornately layered and intricate atmospheres. The elements that lead each song are the vocals and the percussion, whether it be dramatic and fierce or subtle and ethereal, the album has a beating heart that intensely feels the emotions of the music. In what seems like a moment of synchronicity between ancient and modern, the listener feels intrinsically bonded with Drif in that very moment, ebbing and flowing with the album’s various movements and narratives. HEILUNG’s innate ability to call upon things that were seemingly forgotten and frame them into a modern perspective connecting old and new in a finely turned process is truly remarkable, and Drif is the strongest representation of the band that we have to date. Unlike their previous two albums, on ‘Drif’ Heilung change their direction of focus towards exploration of great rudimentary civilisations outside of Europe. ‘Drif’ means gathering, and as you listen to the album, you’ll find compositions drawn from far wider than just Northern Europe. Heilung link the civilisations that had evolved, traded, and interacted with each other. Asja is easily my favorite of the singles, and that is due to the throat singing of Kai Uwe Faust. The deep tones and rhythmic cadence of his vocals resonate within my chest, creating waves of primal feelings, feelings that were buried by the societal standards that have all but eradicated our connection to our own being, and to the beauty around us.

Since its inception in 2017, enigmatic world music collective HEILUNG has been paving melodic paths to the past with their unique and mystifying sound. Malt, Andy (5 February 2018). "One Liners: Justin Timberlake, Albert Hammond Jr, Queen and Adam Lambert, more". Complete Music Update . Retrieved 11 December 2019. Heilung know what they are talking about when it comes to ancient music. Juul and vocalist Maria Franz met through Viking re-enactment societies and formed Heilung alongside Kai Uwe Faust, a Viking-inspired tattoo artist, in 2014. Since then, the band have set themselves the goal of “amplifying history”. Their two previous studio releases, Ofnir and Futha, resurrect the music of Viking, iron age and bronze age cultures, inspired in part by an extensive library of artefacts and texts owned by Franz, who is also the band’s archivist – and their live shows extend that historical fascination with their costumed theatricality and tribe-sized lineups.

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drums, including one with horse skin painted with human blood, two drums with deerskin and a drum with goatskin Their sound is described by themselves as “amplified history” as they aim to connect modern society with the beginnings of rudimentary humanity via their music. The music draws deeply on experimental folk, utilises runic texts from Germanic populations of the bronze and iron age and prehistoric Northern Europe.