Nordic folk music with roots in black metal might sound ridiculously niche, but Wardruna are more than the sum of their parts—and to prove it, here they are at the Auditorium Theatre. Einar Selvik ...

It would be easy to mock Norway’s Wardruna. Their name translates as “guardian of the runes” – they make music from goat horns, bone flutes and a replica of a German lyre from 500 AD. Frontman Einar ...

Norwegian dark folk band Wardruna released a new single, “Hertan,” last week, and now they’ve announced what they say will be their only US performance this year. It happens at Morrison, CO’s iconic ...

With no way of knowing what music those ancients actually created, Wardruna’s contemporary vision marries subtlety and complexity to an elemental power. Moments on sixth album Birna (named for a ...

Hypnotic Viking folk project Wardruna have announced their next album, Birna. The news of the collective’s sixth album, which will be out in January and has a title meaning “she-bear” in Old Norse, is ...

Metal Hammer has teamed with Norwegian neofolk masters Wardruna to release a 2LP version of new album Birna that comes with an art card signed by the band. The package is only available through the ...

Wardruna’s fifth full-length was due last June, but due to the pandemic, the Norwegian neo-prog-folk band bumped the release date of Kvitravn to this January. Though Wardruna were born out of Norway’s ...

For Norwegian songwriter and performer, Einar Selvik, making music is as much about excavation, construction and refinement as it as about melody and rhythm. A composer of epic, culturally rooted ...

Following the lofty flights of 2021 album Kvitravn (White Raven), Wardruna are returning to the heart of winter with new album, Birna (She-Bear). Central to Wardruna’s sound is Einar Selvik’s ...

One of the more exciting festivals popping up next year is the annual Fire in the Mountains out in Montana. Now, I know what you’re thinking — who wants to go to the middle of nowhere Montana — but ...

Wardruna have donated over $14,000 to the Firekeeper Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting Indigenous communities and suicide prevention efforts in Browning, Montana. The Norwegian world ...