Fancy yourself a lover of Norwegian melodic, progressive, and doom metal, perhaps all rolled into one? Well, this might be your lucky fuckin day because it seems that one of the classics is coming ...

IDAHO FALLS – Kade Walters is a lifelong Idahoan who spends most days waiting tables at Fuji Hibachi & Grill. What people may not know about him is that in the summer, he transforms into Bjorn ...

To describe the Nordic collective Heilung as a band is too reductive by half. The group was founded in 2014, and it wasn’t until 2016 that the collective played their first show. As their label, ...

Some major drama unfolded during this year’s Midgardsblot Festival in Norway, as an altercation between Native American black metal outfit Blackbraid and festival security resulted in the band’s ...

Rising black metal star Blackbraid performed a headlining set at the Midgardsblot Metal Festival in Norway over the weekend, but things didn't go that smoothly. After the set, Blackbraid frontman Sgah ...

Through scholarship and a popular podcast, CU Boulder professor Mathias Nordvig brings the Viking Age to the 21 st century When Robert Plant sang the opening lyrics to Led Zeppelin’s raucous, enduring ...

The band Heilung performs on replica instruments to recreate the sound world of pre-Christian Europe and bring it into the modern age. By Imogen West-Knights BORRE, Norway — “We have vegan potato ...

“I always grew up with the question of belief,” says Heilung’s throat-singing vocalist Kai Uwe Faust. “Believing in Jesus Christ or not, believing in the Devil. But when I healed in front of my eyes, ...

If you are planning to go to this year's Midgardsblot: the annual celebration of all things viking and metal, get in the spirit with our essential tunes When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Having played its debut show before thousands of people at a metal festival and its music having been featured in ads and TV shows, Heilung has come a long way since forming in 2014. By Bram Teitelman ...